Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award

2024-25 Award Recipients

Award Description

The Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award (ECTA) recognizes faculty members who are effective teachers and demonstrate an exceptional commitment to student learning, pedagogical engagement, and teaching innovation. Up to six awards of $3,000 each will be offered annually. Award recipients will be honoured at the annual Excellence in Teaching Reception to be held in the Fall.

Eligibility

Faculty members who have completed two years of teaching at the University of Toronto in their current continuing-stream appointment are eligible to be nominated for the Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award. This includes tenure-stream Assistant Professors, teaching-stream Assistant Professors, and full-time clinical faculty within the first six years of their continuing-status appointment.

Selection

The Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award winners are determined by a process of nomination and selection by a committee. The Selection Committee will comprise tenure- and teaching-stream faculty members from different ranks and will include:

• Vice-President & Provost (or Designate) — Chair
• Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation (one representative)
• Four Faculty representatives, two of which shall be members of the Teaching Academy

The Selection Committee will assess candidates based on proven evidence of successful undergraduate and/or graduate teaching as well as evidence of impact in at least two of the following areas:

• Initiatives to enhance and/or support student learning (e.g., the development of student mentoring programs, innovative classroom practices, distinct approaches to courses and curricula).
• Initiatives promoting student-faculty interactions (e.g., development of learning communities, creating opportunities for co-/extracurricular learning).
• Contributions to the scholarship of teaching and learning (e.g., formal/informal research, presentations and/or publications on teaching and learning in a post-secondary environment).
• Pedagogical contributions outside the classroom (e.g., contributions to departmental/divisional curricular initiatives, work with teaching/learning committees or centres, mentorship of more junior colleagues).
• Ongoing pedagogical development/enhancement (e.g., professional development to enhance one’s own teaching, evidence of a scholarly approach to teaching).

Nomination Procedure

Nominations are solicited from members of the University community. A complete nomination package will include the following and should be submitted with the ECTA coversheet and checklist and a table of contents:

• Letter of nomination written by a member of the University community, detailing the specific contributions of the candidate which address the selection criteria above as it relates to the candidate (maximum five pages).
• Two to three letters from colleagues (one of which should be from a Principal, Dean, Vice-Dean, Associate Dean, Chair, or Academic Director) that speak directly to the impact that the candidate’s contributions have had to teaching and student learning (one to three pages per letter).
• Two to three letters of support from current or former students that speak directly to the impact the candidate has had on student learning and development (one to three pages per letter).
• Teaching philosophy statement written by the candidate (two to three pages).
• Abridged current curriculum vitae (maximum 10 pages).
• Summary of the candidate’s teaching-related achievements at the undergraduate and/or graduate level that address the selection criteria (noted above). The summary brief could include the following information (maximum 12-14 pages):
  • Course and curriculum development;
  • Summary of quantitative and qualitative feedback from students;
    Teaching and learning initiatives that the candidate has engaged in (e.g., development of an initiative for first year students, mentoring initiative for graduate students, outreach to high school students, integration/adoption of a new teaching approach, informal/formal research on learning, presentations on teaching, etc.);
  • Teaching development activities; and/or
  • Recognition of teaching contributions by students and/or colleagues;
  • Summary of how equity, diversity and inclusion inform the nominee’s teaching practices.

Nominations should be submitted in one PDF document by email to the Office of the Vice-President & Provost. Please submit the documents in the order outlined above and with the ECTA coversheet and checklist and a table of contents.

• Self-nominations are not accepted.
• It is the responsibility of the nominator to ensure that the nomination package is complete. Incomplete nomination packages will not be considered by the Selection Committee.
• Re-submissions: Nominations may be resubmitted once. Each resubmission must be accompanied by a new nomination letter.

Nomination deadline to be announced in summer 2025.

Contact

Office of the Vice-Provost, Innovations in Undergraduate Education
awards.provost@utoronto.ca
416.946.8251

Past Recipients

2023

Spyridon Kotsovilis, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Mississauga
Alison Olechowski, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering and Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering and Practice, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
Jasty Singh, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Immunology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Roberta K. Timothy, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
S. Trimble, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Women and Gender Studies Institute, Faculty of Arts & Science

2022

Alexandra Bolintineanu, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Centre for Medieval Studies and Woodsworth College, Faculty of Arts & Science
Elham Marzi, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education & Practice, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
George Ibrahim, Associate Professor, Full-Time Clinical Appointment, Department of Surgery, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Sanghyun (Kris) Kim, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough
Uahikea Maile, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts & Science

2021

Keith Adamson, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Factor-Inwentash School of Social Work
Funké Aladejebi, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts & Science
Obidimma Ezezika, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Health & Society, University of Toronto Scarborough
Sherry Fukuzawa, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto Mississauga
Angela Mashford-Pringle, Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

2020

Danielle Bentley, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Division of Anatomy, Department of Surgery, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Daniel Gregory, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Arts & Science
Jacqueline Smith, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts & Science
Olivier St-Cyr, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Faculty of Information

2019

Jill Carter, Assistant Professor, Tenure Stream, Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies, New College, Faculty of Arts and Science
Andrea Charise, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Interdisciplinary Centre for Health & Society and Graduate Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Science
Rachel La Touche, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science
Suzanne Wood, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Science

2018

Anne McGuire, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Equity Studies, New College
Daniel Zingaro, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga
Matthew Sergi, Assistant Professor, Tenure Stream, Department of English
Toula Kourgiantakis, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work

2017

Jayne Baker, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Mississauga
Sohee Kang, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough
Jamie Kellar, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
David Liu, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts & Science

2016

Sanja Hinic-Frlog, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga
Dawn Kilkenny, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering
David Roberts, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Innis College Urban Studies Program, Faculty of Arts & Science
Ashley Stirling, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education

2015

Christian Caron, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts & Science
Alen Hadzovic, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough
Anthony Niblett, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law

2014

Aarthi Ashok, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough
Fiona Rawle, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga
Michael Reid, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Faculty of Arts & Science
Kyle Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga