Swansea Excellence in Teaching and Student Support Awards 2024
The Swansea Excellence awards exist so that students can nominate excellent teaching and/or support staff who have been really exceptional and achieved excellence in what they do.
There are three categories:
Excellence in Leaning and Teaching Award (ELTA) – for individual teachers
Excellence in Student Support Award (ESSA) – individual members of support staff or teams
Excellence in Team Teaching Award (ETTA) – for teaching teams
This year the number of nominations each student can make has been changed. You can now nominate:
ELTA – Up to two nominations of individual teachers, but if you want to make more than one nomination, they must be one from teaching block 1 and one from teaching block 2. If you’re only making one nomination, it can be from either.
ESSA – One nomination can be made for either an individual member of staff, or for a team.
ETTA – Up to two nominations of teaching teams, but if you want to make more than one nomination, they must be one from teaching block 1 and one from teaching block 2. If you’re only making one nomination, it can be from either.
You can nominate in one, two or all three categories.
In addition, the nomination period has been altered to allow you experience of both teaching blocks. You can now nominate from February to April.
Are you taught by a truly innovative, excellent teacher ? Someone who creates a supportive and personal learning experience that allows each student to excel and reach their potential ?
This award is to recognise individual members of teaching staff to strive for and achieve teaching excellence.
The awarding panel will consider, but is not limited to, the following criteria:
Impact on students’ learning
Supportiveness of students and their learning
Enthusiasm for teaching, learning and subject
Use of appropriate methods and / or innovation
The more you can give us in your nomination, the better. Nominations that have depth and examples of excellent teaching will score more highly.
Is there a staff member in a support role (i.e. non-teaching) who has contributed significantly to your experience as a student and positively impacted your time at Swansea ?
This award is designed to recognise and celebrate those staff members, and what they do, by highlighting their work and the vital contribution they make to creating an excellent student experience here.
This could be anyone from the administrators in your department, to librarians, to IT support staff, to the technicians in your lab.
Please note: This is not an award for academic teaching staff. Any staff employed as lecturers / seminar leaders / tutors will be automatically removed from this award classification.
The awarding panel will consider, but is not limited to, the following criteria:
Positive impact on students and / or the student experience
Working above the expected level
Excellence in “customer” service
How, or why, this person or team has special qualities
The more you can give us in your nomination, the better. Nominations that have depth and examples of excellence will score more highly.
Are you taught by a truly innovative, excellent teaching team ?
This can be a whole course team, or more than one lecturer collaborating on teaching a single module. A team who create a supportive and personal learning experience and encourages and allows each student to excel and reach their potential ?
This award is to recognise teams of teaching staff to strive for and achieve teaching excellence.
The awarding panel will consider, but is not limited to, the following criteria:
Effective teamwork and collaboration.
Teams working together to support student learning.
Opportunities for students to be involved in their own learning.
High quality teaching and / or student support.
Please note: This is not an award for individual members of academic teaching staff. Any nominations made for individual members of staff will be automatically removed from this award classification.
The more you can give us in your nomination, the better. Nominations that have depth and examples of excellent teaching and team-working will score more highly. Please remember to consider the judging criteria as you write your nomination.
The Swansea Excellence awards exist so that students can nominate excellent teaching and/or support staff who have been really exceptional and achieved excellence in what they do.