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DORIS SILL CARLAND PRIZE FOR OUTSTANDING TEACHING 2008
The following students have been awarded the Doris Sill Carland Prize:
REBECCA DUBAY (History of Art)
Rebecca is a second-year TA who is honored for her work in two of History of Art's introductory seminars: The Classical Tradition and Women, Feminism and the History of Art. Students wrote that Rebecca is "incredibly conscientious," "incredibly organized," "so understanding of personal situations," and "amazing and should make a very good professor some day." One of the faculty members whom she assisted called her work "exemplary, responsible, thorough, and fully engaged," noting among her many contributions "reminding me of things to do." |
JILL NEUENDORF (Russian)
Jill has been a TA for a number of courses, but this award is based on her work in four conversation courses in the Spring and Fall of 2007. Students loved her "awesome worksheets," claiming "we never have any spare time because we're always doing something Jill has conjured up" and "I really liked watching Winnie the Pooh in Russian." Her faculty recommenders agree that "her classroom ... always bustles with energy and laughter" as she "us[es] everything from Russian songs and film to Russian food" to get students engaged. They added that "rarely ... have we seen a graduate student who devotes so much of herself to her teaching and to her students."
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DAN WISNIEWSKI (Mathematics)
Dan has been a TA for four years, and he somehow stays upbeat and positive even in the face of such undergraduate comments as "Don't let him leave!" "keep TAing, Dan!" and "Dan should TA every course." He wins the Carland Award for his work in Abstract Algebra I and Introduction to Real Analysis 2 in 2007. Undergraduates in these courses called him "awesome," "glorious," "my hero," and "the best TA I ever had." His weakness, according to one student, is "there's only one of him," and asked if his performance was of exceptionally high quality, another student wrote: "Yes, it's hard to explain. He can do no wrong." His faculty supervisors called him "a gentle but extraordinarily effective teaching assistant" who is "masterful at simultaneously guiding ... students through sophisticated ideas, while always encouraging and teaching them how to think on their own." They also note that he is "an absolute pleasure to have around."
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The Doris Sill Carland Prize Recipients of past years
The Carland Prize honors Teaching Assistants who are recognized by students and faculty as adding something extra to the courses in which they are assisting, whether through innovative pedagogy, the depth and breadth of their own subject expertise, exceptional communication skills or other ability to facilitate students' progress in achieving the goals of the course.The prize is given annually to one or more Teaching Assistants whose work is judged to be of outstanding quality.
Doris Sill Carland served as administrative assistant in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for 50 years, from 1930 to 1980. She befriended and was loved by many graduate students for her humor and special kindnesses, including loaning a particular lucky piece to students writing prelims. The Prize for Outstanding Teaching was named for her by Dean Catherine Lafarge in 1987. From then until Doris Carland's death in 1991, Dean Lafarge reported the name of every winner to her.
Posted 05/07/08 |
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