PhD Teaching Award

The Warrington College of Business is deeply committed to supporting excellence in the classroom. A key component of that commitment is the PhD Teaching Award. The purpose of this award is to acknowledge exceptional teaching by the College’s doctoral students. This award is offered to up to three PhD students each academic year who are teaching a course for which they have sole responsibility.

Be sure to observe the following deadlines to submit your award documents:

• If you are teaching during the Summer 2024 through Spring 2025 semesters, submit your award documents by June 1, 2025.
• If you are teaching during the Summer 2025 through Spring 2026 semesters, submit your award documents by June 1, 2026.

What to Submit

To be considered for the award, you are required to submit the following to the PhD Teaching Award Committee:

1. Course syllabus. To ensure that your syllabus is complete, be sure to review the University of Florida Syllabus Policy.

2. Course site URL. To ensure that your course site is complete, be sure to review the University of Florida Required Minimal Canvas Usage Policy.

3. Statement of your teaching philosophy. When crafting your 1-2-page single-spaced philosophy, consider ways to include tangible and specific examples of how you put your pedagogical philosophies into practice.

4. Midcourse evaluation. This evaluation should be administered via GatorEvals around the midpoint of your term (i.e., 6-8 weeks into the semester or 4 weeks into the mod if you are teaching a module course). See Midterm Evaluations for additional information on the evaluation, including how to opt-in. See Instructor Reports for information on how to generate a report of your midcourse evaluations.

5. Recording of one entire class session. You will need to provide a link (or links, if your class session is split into multiple recordings) to your recording. To ensure that your video is accessible during the award selection period, be sure to upload your video(s) to a hosting (Dropbox, OneDrive, or Google Drive) or sharing (YouTube or Vimeo) service.

As you prepare to record a class session, remember that recording technology can fail. Be sure to review your recording(s) to ensure the audio and video elements are of a high quality and to record early enough in the semester that you can re-record if necessary.

Note: You will want to provide advanced notice to your students that they will be captured in a recording in case they have a personal or cultural reason to not want to be filmed or photographed.

6. Official final course evaluations. These evaluations will be administered online through GatorEvals and will be available shortly after the semester that you teach. You should only submit the final course evaluations for the semester that you are submitting the award documents for. See Instructor Reports for information on how to generate a report of your final course evaluations.

7. Section(s) GPAs. Provide a breakdown of the final course GPAs for your students.

8. Self-evaluation of your midcourse and final course evaluations. This 1-2-page document should summarize what you learned from both of your course evaluation. Your reflection does not need to include quoted student comments, as those will be submitted and reviewed separately.

First, you should include what you learned from your midcourse evaluation after you read through the responses. Be sure to include any resulting modifications or improvements you made to your course or teaching during the second half of the semester.

Second, you should include what you learned from your final course evaluations. This portion of your self-evaluation should include any patterns you saw in the student feedback. You should also touch upon how well your midcourse improvements were received and what you would incorporate going forward.

Incomplete packages will not be considered, so be sure to include all required materials. You do not need to include any additional materials in your award application. Be sure to clearly label each document you submit to support the awards committee’s review process.

Note: If you have previously won a Ph.D. Teaching Award, you are ineligible to reapply for one year after receiving the award.

Please submit all documents as a single zipped archive to the Teaching & Learning Center. Contact the Teaching & Learning Center if you have questions. We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Past Award Winners