Melanie Santarossa is one of the 2011 winners of a GA/TA Award for Educational Practice from the University of Windsor Centre for Teaching and Learning. In the video below, she takes us through each section of her teaching dossier, explaining why and how she chose what to include and how she ties it all together.

Melanie’s dossier demonstrates all of the award criteria, a range of pedagogical strategies, a coherent approach, breadth and depth of sample resources and lessons, active engagement and self-direction. In addition, the organization and readability of Melanie’s dossier make it easy to understand her approach to teaching and learning.

All of the 2011 GATA awards will be presented at the Celebration of Teaching Excellence this fall, along with all of the faculty teaching awards and certificate for those graduating from the University Teaching Certificate Program. Two copies of Melanie’s dossier will be kept at the CTL and are available as models for future nominees.

For more information about the award process and criteria, please see: http://www.uwindsor.ca/ctl/gata-nomination-process.

The Centre for Teaching and learning will be holding a Teaching Dossier Academy from June 6-10, 2011 to help participants develop their dossiers over five days. Be sure to register!