Educators Honoured for Excellence in Teaching
Educators Honoured for Excellence in Teaching
BY JEREMY HAN, MACINSIDERS
Three faculty members who have contributed to excellence in education at McMaster University have been named recipients of the 2009 President's Awards.
Kathryn Bennett, a professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, has won the President's Award for Educational Leadership. The award recognizes the contributions of an individual who promotes excellence in teaching and learning at the University.
Pippa Lock, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, and Walter Peace, an associate professor in the School of Geography and Earth Sciences, are co-recipients of the President's Award for Instruction. The award recognizes the contributions of an individual to education through innovation, achievement or continuing excellence in classroom or personal instruction.
The President's Awards were established to recognize full- and part-time faculty members who, through innovation and commitment, have significantly enhanced the quality of learning by McMaster students. Recipients receive a $5,000 honorarium and a citation on McMaster's Wall of Recognition in Gilmour Hall.
President's Award for Educational Leadership - Kathryn Bennett
Kathryn Bennett has been a leader in health sciences education for more than 20 years. She has served as director of the McMaster International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN) Training Program, which established her international reputation as a skilled and knowledgeable educator in the field of international health. She has also demonstrated her academic leadership as a department educational coordinator (DEC) and later chair of the DECs for the Faculty of Health Sciences. As the DEC for the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, she pioneered the department's curricular contributions for the new Bachelor of Health Sciences program and, as chair of the DECs, she worked with the associate dean (education) to further define the role of the DEC in two key areas: educational leadership and mentoring at the department level.
She also led the evolution of the Health Research Methodology program, expanding it to five fields of specialization and increasing student enrolment. As a teacher, Bennett has demonstrated excellence as well. She has received very high ratings and many laudatory comments from students and has shown a strong commitment to teaching.
Excellence in Instruction - Pippa Lock
Over the past seven years, Pippa Lock has developed a strong and well-deserved reputation as an outstanding professor in the Department of Chemistry. She excels in the classroom and her teaching evaluations are consistently the highest in the department. Lock's students have recognized the impact she has had on their learning by repeatedly nominating her for an MSU Teaching Award. Her name has been put forward for the Faculty of Science four times over five years, and she was the overall Faculty winner in 2003-04. In her first year as a faculty member, she won the 2001-02 MSU Merit Award.
Lock has had a substantial impact on the education of first-year chemistry students. In 2003-04, she was the principal investigator on a $100,000 grant funded through the Imperial Oil Foundation to improve the quality of instruction in large classrooms. The funding led to improvements in instructional quality and an overhaul of instructional design in first-year chemistry courses. Following the success of the project, similar efforts were launched to revise the entire undergraduate chemistry program.
Excellence in Instruction - Walter Peace
Walter Peace has demonstrated excellence in teaching over the last 29 years as a faculty member in the School of Geography and Earth Sciences. He has taught 15 different courses and more than 14,000 students, and has provided instruction for a wide range of classes. One factor that contributes to his teaching excellence is his passion for education and course subject matter, as noted by his students in their evaluations. Peace demonstrates a strong commitment to teaching and learning at McMaster through his receptiveness to innovative ideas, extensive reading of the teaching literature and substantial contributions to University committees that focus on teaching, particularly with respect to the geography curriculum.
A highly regarded instructor, Peace inspires his students to excel through his approach to classroom and personal instruction. Students have shown their appreciation of his teaching style through their comments and requests to have him as a supervisor. In addition, he has been able to integrate his experience on four community boards with his teaching by providing opportunities for students to learn geography through real world activities.
Congratulations to all 3 professors!
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Go Dr. Lock!
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I've only heard amazing things about Dr. Peace!
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Congratulations to all the professors .
One of my high school teachers who went to McMaster was taught by Dr. Peace (Yeah, he’s been teaching for a while). He was his favourite professor, and had nothing but good things to say about him. I’m actually taking one of his classes this year as well!
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Pippa Lock is a good prof Had her for both first year chem courses.
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I've also heard a lot of good things about Dr. Peace. I'm taking one of his classes this year as well.
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I've also heard a lot of good things about Dr. Peace. I'm taking one of his classes this year as well.
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He's a good lecturer. I didn't like the class he taught though; I wasn't really interested in geography much.
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Yeah, I'm in Dr. Peace's class as well. Are you guys (Joseph and Matthew) in GEOG 1HA3? If you guys are, we're in a lot of the same classes this year
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Yeah, I'm in Dr. Peace's class as well. Are you guys (Joseph and Matthew) in GEOG 1HA3? If you guys are, we're in a lot of the same classes this year
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Yeah man, I'm in GEOG 1HA3 as well with dr peace. That's awesome, me, you and Joseph are in the same elective classes.
We have someone to help us with hmwk, eh Jake
...just kidding Joseph lol
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Yeah man, I'm in GEOG 1HA3 as well with dr peace. That's awesome, me, you and Joseph are in the same elective classes.
We have someone to help us with hmwk, eh Jake
...just kidding Joseph lol
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Hahaha yeah. Watch Joseph switch his electives now
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Yeah man, I'm in GEOG 1HA3 as well with dr peace. That's awesome, me, you and Joseph are in the same elective classes.
We have someone to help us with hmwk, eh Jake
...just kidding Joseph lol
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Hahaha yeah. Watch Joseph switch his electives now
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*begins switching electives* :p
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*begins switching electives* :p
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lol
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