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Faculty Teaching Awards
The “New Teacher of the Year” award is intended for an Otterbein faculty member at the Assistant Professor rank who is in his or her first three years of service to Otterbein. The “Teacher of the Year” award is open to all other full-time members of the Otterbein College faculty. All recipients are student and peer-nominated and must exemplify the following characteristics of a “Master Teacher”:
The awardee should exhibit mastery of the subject matter in their discipline or in interdisciplinary teaching; highly effective organization and communication of material, a spirit of enthusiasm which enriches the instructor’s own teaching and learning, the ability to arouse the curiosity of beginning students and to stimulate advanced students to creative work, the ability to interact with students beyond the classroom through activities that integrate and expand the learning environment.
| Year Awarded |
Master Faculty |
New Faculty |
| 2006 |
Lyle Barkhymer
-IS/Music |
Shannon Lakanen
-English |
| 2005 |
John Swaim
-Education |
Greg Sullivan
-Health and Sport Sciences |
| 2004 |
Robert Kraft
-Psychology |
Suzanne Ashworth
-English |
| 2003 |
Susan Millsap
-Communication |
John Tansey
-Chemistry |
| 2002 |
Zengxian Tong
-Mathematics and Computer Science |
Amy Jessen-Marshall
-Earth and Life Science |
| 2001 |
Beth Rigel Daugherty
-English |
Jeff Smith
-Mathematics and Computer Science |
| 2000 |
John Buckles
-Communication |
Noam Shpancer
-Psychology |
| 1999 |
Chris Reynolds
-Communication |
Michele Acker
-Psychology |
| 1998 |
Joanne Stichweh
-Art |
Jeff Lehman
-Earth and Life Science |
| 1997 |
Paula Knight
-Education |
Lynn Taylor
-Communication |
| 1996 |
James Bailey
-English |
Laura Bennett-Murphy
-Psychology |
| 1994 |
J. Patrick Lewis
-Business/Accounting/Ecomomics |
Elizabeth Smith
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Past Programming
Course Design for Significant Learning
December 5-6, 2006
Dr. L. Dee Fink, renowned author and faculty development expert will be our invited guest speaker. Watch campus mail for more details and registration information.