Awards

Currently there are four teaching awards which have been adjudicated through the Office of Teaching and Learning and the Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee. The deadline for nomination packages in May 1, 2024.
Learn more about these and other Werklund awards.  

The University of Calgary Teaching Awards are offered in 14 categories.  There is a comprehensive nomination process that must be completed by the application deadline.  The Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning offers one-on-one sessions and other supports to help you prepare nomination packages.  The WSE Office of Teaching and Learning will host drop-in sessions to help potential candidates prepare their nominations and will provide editing support of nomination portfolios as well.  If you wish to have support with your nomination package, please email tandl@ucalgary.ca. Awards recipients will be announced in Winter 2024 and the next round of nominations will close in September 2024.

Werklund Recipients of University of Calgary Teaching Awards

2022
Erin Spring and Aubrey Hanson - Award for Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Sandra Manyfeathers - Award for Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Roswita Dressler - Award for Blended and Online Learning
Jeff Turner - Award for Sessional Instructors

2021
Miwa Takeuchi - Award for Full-Time Academic Staff (Associate Professor)
Polly L. Knowlton Cockett - Award for Sessional Instructors
Soroush Sabbaghan - Award for Teaching in Online Environments
Quality Graduate Supervision MOOC Team: Michele Jacobsen and Hawazen Alharbi - Award for Educational Leadership (Group)

2020
Man-Wai Chu - Award for Full-Time Academic Staff
Michele Jacobsen - Award for Graduate Supervision
Gregory Tweedie - Teaching in Online Environments

2019
Anusha Kassan - Award for Full-Time Academic Staff
Shelly Russell-Mayhew - Award for Full-Time Academic Staff
Colleen Kawalilak - Award for Graduate Supervision
Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre Inc. (Lorne Keeper, Margaret Scott, Shirley Myran and Derek Courchene) and Werklund School of Education (Meadow Schroeder, Erica Makarenko, Jac J.W. Andrews) - Award for Educational Leadership (Group)
Mary-Ann Mitchell-Pellett - Award for Sessional Instructors
Cyndie Baum - Award for Continuing and Professional Education
Stephanie Bartlett and Erin Quinn - Award for Team-Teaching

2018
Shelly Russell-Mayhew, Tina Gabriele, Alana Ireland, Kerri Murray and Gavin Peat - Educational Leadership (Group): Health Champions Committee
Shelly Russell-Mayhew - Award for Graduate Supervision
Aubrey Hanson - Teaching in Online Environments

2017
Faculty and Social Work and Werklund School of Education, Advancing Healthy and Socially Just Schools and Communities – Award for Curriculum Development
Catherine Burwell – Award for Full-time Academic Staff
Katherine Mueller – Award for Sessional Instructor
Jim Reilly – Award for Workplace Integrated Education

2015
Werklund School of Education, Bachelor of Education program ­– Award for Curriculum Development
Jennifer Lock – Award for Educational Leadership, (formal role)
Jo Towers – Award for Full-time Academic Staff
Barb Brown – Award for Teaching in Online Environments
Yang (Flora) Liu – Award for Graduate Assistants (Teaching)

2014
Janet Groen – Award for Full-time Academic Staff
Peggy Patterson – Award for Graduate Supervision
Barbara Brydges – Award for Academic Librarians, Archivists and Curators
Meadow Schoeder – Award for Teaching in Online Environments

2023
Teaching Excellence: Michelle Kilborn
Educational Leadership: Sarah Eaton
Sessional Instructor Award: Garry Jones

2022
Teaching Excellence: Umit Boz
Sessional Instructor Award: Verena Roberts

2021
Teaching Excellence: Tanya Mudry
Educational Leadership: Beaumie Kim
Excellence Instructing in Online Environments: Roswita Dressler
Sessional Instructor Award: Sandra Duggleby

2020
Teaching Excellence: Miwa Takeuchi
Educational Leadership: Erica Makarenko
Excellence Instructing in Online Environments: Patricia Danyluk, Theodora Kapoyannis and Astrid Kendrick
Sessional Instructor Award: Polly Knowlton Cockett

2019
Teaching Excellence: Man-Wai Chu
Educational Leadership: Barb Brown
Excellence Instructing in Online Environments: Katie Crossman
Sessional Instructor Award: Nadia Delanoy

2018
Teaching Excellence: David Scott
Educational Leadership: Jac Andrews

2017
Teaching Excellence: Amy Burns
Leadership in Teaching: Catherine Burwell

2016
Teaching Excellence: Yvonne Poitras-Pratt
Leadership in Teaching: Dianne Gereluk

2015
Teaching Excellence: Sarah Eaton
Leadership in Teaching: Tonya Callaghan

2014
Teaching Excellence: Barb Brown, Catherine Burwell, and Adam McCrimmon
Leadership in Teaching: Michele Jacobsen

2013
Teaching Excellence: Kent Donlevy and Andreea Cervatiuc
Leadership in Teaching: Sharon Friesen, Jennifer Lock, and Bonnie Shapiro

2012
Teaching Excellence: Jennifer Lock, Michele Jacobsen, and Candace Saar

The Academic Support Offices (Research, Teaching, International) are inviting you to apply for a Academic Support Offices Grant: Award Package Pathway Preparation. This grant is to help you prepare and assemble an award package. Nominating someone for an Award or receiving an award is becoming more and more important at the University of Calgary, so we would like to encourage all colleagues to consider applying or nominating a colleague for an award. 

• Academic Support Offices Grant: Award Package Pathway Preparation - Academic staff are encouraged to use this funding to hire a graduate or undergraduate student as a research assistant to help prepare and assemble an award package. 

Application deadline for this support grant: Ongoing and based on availability of funds.

The application for the grants is available here and you can contact the Associate Deans in the Academic Support Offices for more information about this grant opportunity: Shelly Russell-Mayhew for Research & Leadership Awards, Barb Brown for Teaching & Learning Awards, and Roswita Dressler for International & EDI Awards.  

The Werklund School of Education and University of Calgary also support the nomination process for external awards that are available nationally and internationally.  More information on the support offer by the university through the External Teaching and Learning Awards Committee is available here.  For support from the Werklund Office of Teaching and Learning, including review and copy editing, contact us by email at tandl@ucalgary.ca.

Werklund School of Education Award Winners

2022 D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning
Shelly Russell-Mayhew, Louise McClelland and Kerri Murray
Teachers of Tomorrow: Transforming Education by Facilitating a Culture of Wellbeing in Bachelor of Education Programs
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2021 Alan Blizzard Award
Yvonne Poitras Pratt and Patricia Danyluk
Modelling Reconciliation: Educators Building Bridges and Connections
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1997 3M National Teaching Fellow
Anthony Marini, University of Calgary Faculty of Education
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