This small annual
award was started in 2008, and can be won by graduate students
in the Physics Department at U of T St. George Campus who are
teaching PHY131 or PHY132 in the fall or winter
semester. It is awarded after every academic year based
on the written student evaluations done in Practicals.
Approximately
1500 paper surveys are circulated each year, and we ask the
students to numerically rate their Learning Assistants based
on the following 3 questions:
- "The instructor communicates the goals and requirements of the practicals activities clearly and explicitly."
- "During Practicals activities, the instructor is available to students, attends to students' questions, and answers them clearly and effectively."
- "During the quizzes and question/answer sessions, the instructor is well organized, attends to students' questions, and presents concepts clearly and effectively."
The choices are
"Strongly Disagree", "Disagree", "Neutral", "Agree" or
"Strongly Agree". Results are sorted for all graduate student
Learning Assistants and ranked based on consistency and
quality of the numerical results.
The winners for 2015/16 are:
1st place: Leonid
Gilburd
2nd place: Andrei
Catuneanu
Tied for 3rd place:
Ahmad Golaraei
Catherine
Woodford
Maria Tibbo
Vijin Venu
| Academic
Year |
1st
Place |
2nd
Place |
3rd
Place |
| 2014/15 |
No award this year |
||
| 2013/14 |
Andrei Catuneanu |
Jeremie Harris |
Ian Chan, Keven Roy, Phil Heron, Kyu-sung Hwang |
| 2012/13 |
Wei Cui |
Aida Ghazvini Zadeh |
Oliver Watt-Meyer, Shreyas Potnis, Ian Chan, Catalina Gomez |
| 2011/12 | Niall Ryan | Carolyn Kierans | Santiago Batista, Garrin McGoldrick, Steven Schramm |
| 2010/11 | Alireza Mashayekhi | Graham Edge | Matt Russo, Ben Mossbarger, Andreea Lupascu, Ellen Dyer |
| 2009/10 | Jean-Michel Delisle Carter | Lynn MacDonald | Zen Mariani, Anjan Reijnders |
| 2008/09 | Jean-Michel Delisle Carter | Kiyoshi Masui | Hlynur Gretarsson, Heather Andres, David MacKenzie |
| 2007/08 |
Jean-Michel Delisle Carter |
Travis Bain |
Jing Zou |