Masaryk University Rector’s Award for Outstanding Teachers

• 11 – 31 May 2016
• Masaryk University

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The Rector’s Award for Outstanding Teachers is specifically designed to recognize the quality of educational activities performed by Masaryk University employees. Therefore, for the purposes of this category, only the pedagogical activities of individual nominees are assessed.

Competition categories

• natural sciences and medicine
• social sciences and humanities
• economics and informatics

Award Focus

• the award is designed to recognize the outstanding teaching activities of internal MU teachers
• any educator working at MU may be nominated (teacher, supervisor, etc.)
• persons employed on the basis of an agreement to complete a job or an agreement to perform work are not eligible for nomination

Nominations

• nominations may be submitted by all students (except for lifelong learning participants) and by Masaryk University deans
• student nominations must be submitted via a designated IS MU application (https://is.muni.cz/auth/pruzkumy/vynikajici_pedagog/).
• each student may nominate 1 to 3 teachers in each of his/her studies
• a student may nominate one teacher no more than once

Evaluation

• The competition will be evaluated by a Rector’s committee established for this purpose.
• Masaryk University recognizes a total of three teachers according to their area of educational expertise (i.e. one per category).
• each winner will receive the Small Bronze Medal of MU, a certificate and a cash prize

Student Raffle

• each student who submits at least one nomination in this category of the Rector's Awards may be included in a raffle to win a range of prizes
• three students from each faculty will be selected at random and informed by email

Competition Schedule

• 11 May 2016 – 31 May 2016: student nominations
• 11 May 2016 – 17 June 2016: MU deans' nominations
• September 2016: announcement of competition results at the academic year launch ceremony

Should you have any questions or issues associated with the competition, please contact the organizers by e-mail at oaz@rect.muni.cz.

See the competition rules for further information (https://is.muni.cz/auth/do/rect/metodika/akad/47840553/62921412/61082275/Pravidla_souteze_ENG.pdf).

The Award of Students' Chamber of AS MU for Student Participation in Education recognizes excellence in educational activities carried out by students nominate here: https://is.muni.cz/auth/pruzkumy/vynikajici_student/