Teaching Awards

The Early Career Teaching Award recognizes consistent outstanding performance in teaching. This award is peer-nominated.

  • 2023 Recipient: Jennifer Innis
  • 2022 Recipient: Sarah Ibrahim
  • 2021 Recipient: Jean Wilson
  • 2020 Recipient: Aaron Conway 
  • 2019 Recipient: Heather Thomson
  • 2017 Recipient: Maki Iwase        

The Entry-Year Excellence in Clinical Instructing Award recognizes:

  • Excellence in clinical teaching as demonstrated by outstanding professionalism and role modelling
  • Exceptional approaches to clinical learning that is supportive, respectful, creative, enthusiastic, evidence-based and student-centred
  • Effectiveness in fostering critical thinking and problem solving skills

Awarded to a clinical instructor directly engaged in supervising undergraduate students during a clinical placement in the entry year. This award is both peer- and student-nominated.

  • 2024 Recipient: Sandra Hardy
  • 2023 Recipients: Katherine Bowden, Jordan Billone
  • 2022 Recipient: Dafina Ademi
  • 2021 Recipients: Sarah Soucy, Christine Madriaga
  • 2020 Recipient: Nma Jerry-Egemba
  • 2019 Recipient: Steven Mark
  • 2018 Recipient: Nakita Godoy

The Excellence in Educational Leadership recognizes excellence in coordinating and/or implementing curriculum, courses, projects and/or programs. This award is peer-nominated.

  • 2024 Recipient: Zoraida DeCastro Beekhoo
  • 2023 Recipient: Nadine Janes
  • 2021 Recipient: Joanne Louis

The Excellence in Online Teaching Award recognizes excellence in teaching using virtual modalities as demonstrated by the ability to stimulate student engagement, innovation, enthusiasm and critical thinking in online courses or online components of courses. This award is both peer- and student-nominated.

  • 2022 Recipient: Erica Cambly

The Excellence in Precepting: Undergraduate Award recognizes:

  • Excellence in precepting in NUR 461 or NUR 470 as demonstrated by outstanding professionalism and role modeling
  • Exceptional approach to clinical learning that is supportive, respectful, creative, enthusiastic, evidence-based and student-centred
  • Effectiveness in fostering critical thinking and problem solving skills.

This award is both peer- and student-nominated.

  • 2024 Recipient: Samantha Burwell
  • 2023 Recipient: Amanda Chiodo
  • 2022 Recipients: Maria Fe Seivilleno, Michelle Weening
  • 2021 Recipient: Monica Soto
  • 2019 Recipient: Jim Donovan-McIlverney
  • 2018 Recipients: Michael Abd-El Malak, Gabriel Lee
  • 2017 Recipients: Vivian Recollet, Sheila Redman

The Excellence in Precepting: Graduate Award recognizes:

  • Excellence in precepting as demonstrated by outstanding professionalism and role modelling
  • Exceptional approaches to clinical learning that is supportive, respectful, creative, enthusiastic, evidence-based and student-centred
  • Effectiveness in fostering critical thinking and problem solving skills

This award is both peer- and student-nominated.

  • 2024 Recipients: Hilary Shackleton, Michelle Trinh
  • 2023 Recipient: Christine Bucago
  • 2022 Recipient: Julia Kim
  • 2021 Recipient: Ray Lam, Betty Osei
  • 2020 Recipients: Tabatha Bowers, Farida Roy
  • 2019 Recipient: Susan Chernenko
  • 2018 Recipients: Roseanne Hickey, Patricia Murphy-Kane

This award recognizes demonstrated teaching that intellectually challenges and stimulates students. This award is both peer- and student-nominated.

  • 2022 Recipient: Charlene Chu
  • 2021 Recipients: Zoraida DeCastro Beekhoo, Steven Pirie
  • 2020 Recipient: Quinn Grundy
  • 2019 Recipient: Anne Simmonds
  • 2018 Recipient: Sandra Merklinger

The Mentoring Award recognizes an outstanding contribution to enhance both student and faculty experience beyond usual activities through mentoring, availability for questions and consultations, and collegial involvement in scholarly activities. This award is both peer- and student-nominated.

  • 2023 Recipient: Amy Wright
  • 2022 Recipient: Stacey Lim

The Senior-Year Excellence in Clinical Instructing Award recognizes:

  • Excellence in clinical teaching as demonstrated by outstanding professionalism and role modelling
  • Exceptional approaches to clinical learning that is supportive, respectful, creative, enthusiastic, evidence-based and student-centred
  • Effectiveness in fostering critical thinking and problem solving skills

Awarded to a clinical instructor directly engaged in supervising undergraduate students during a clinical placement in the senior year. This award is both peer- and student-nominated.

  • 2024 Recipients: Chelsy Pearo, Ahsher Zeldin
  • 2023 Recipient: Jessica Haldane
  • 2021 Recipients: Aisha Abdalla, Nicole Meleca
  • 2018 Recipient: Chantel Cordon
  • 2017 Recipient: Chelsea Miller
  • 2016 Recipient: Hasumie Hosogoe

Equity & Diversity Award recognizes demonstrated exceptional sensitivity to equity and diversity that enhances student learning, student experience and/or curriculum design. This award is peer- and student-nominated.

  • 2022 Recipient: Ray Lam
  • 2021 Recipient: Joanne Louis
  • 2020 Recipient: Amy Wright
  • 2018 Recipient: Laura Fairley

The Teaching Assistant Award recognizes effectiveness in bridging the gap between instructor and students; for example, through the support of students preparing papers and through the provision of constructive feedback through grading. The award is both course instructor- and student-nominated.

  • 2024 Recipients: Mohammad Goudarzi Rad, Navpreet Kamboj
  • 2023 Recipient: Richard Tang
  • 2022 Recipients: Laura Buckley, Rozina Somani
  • 2021 Recipient: Bojan Stoiljkovic
  • 2020 Recipient: Tieghan Killackey
  • 2019 Recipient: Samantha Micsinszki
  • 2018 Recipients: Leah Westgate, Sarah Xiao

The Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award recipient demonstrates excellence in teaching, over this academic year, as characterized by superlative communication skills, mastery of subject area, and the ability to stimulate enthusiasm and critical/analytic thinking in students.

  • 2021 Recipient: Manjit Dhanoa-Yasi
  • 2020 Recipient: Shan Mohammed
  • 2019 Recipient: Laura Fairley
  • 2017 Recipient: Debora Kirschbaum Nitkin

The Graduate Teaching Excellence Award recipient demonstrates excellence in teaching, over this academic year, as characterized by superlative communication skills, mastery of subject area, and the ability to stimulate enthusiasm and critical/analytic thinking in students.

  • 2024 Martine Puts
  • 2023 Recipient: Jean Wilson
  • 2020 Recipient: Sarah Ibrahim
  • 2019 Recipient: Willi Kirenko
  • 2018 Recipient: Michelle Acorn

The Graduate Teaching Excellence Award recipient recognizes excellence in teaching, over this academic year, as characterized by superlative communication skills, master of subject area, and the ability to stimulate enthusiasm and critical/analytical thinking in students.

  • 2024 Recipient: Charlene Chu
  • 2021 Recipient: Quinn Grundy
  • 2020 Recipients: Susan Chernenko, Samantha Mayo
  • 2019 Recipient: Lisa Cranley

The Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award recipient recognizes excellence in teaching, over this academic year, as characterized by superlative communication skills, master of subject area, and the ability to stimulate enthusiasm and critical/analytical thinking in students.

  • 2018 Recipient: Elena Luk
  • 2017 Recipient: Jana Lok