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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
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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
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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.