Each year in May, LSE and the LSE Students' Union rewards educational contribution and performance through four awards:
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LSE Class Teacher Awards, given to graduate teaching assistants, teaching fellows and guest teachers in recognition of their very special contribution to teaching at LSE
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LSE Excellence in Education Awards, for those identified by Heads of Department as having shown outstanding teaching contribution and educational leadership in their departments
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LSE Teaching Promotion Awards, given to faculty who are making a significant educational contribution to LSE and as a result have been promoted to Professor and (via Major Review) Associate Professor
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LSESU Teaching Excellence Awards, for teachers who have made a real impact on students, whether through excellent feedback, pastoral support, knowledge sharing or sheer inspiration
Some of this year's awards were presented at a lively Teaching Awards Celebration party, held in The Venue on 11 May. Others will be presented at a reception in Michaelmas Term and at this year's graduation ceremonies. For details of the winners, photos from presentation events and quotes from students about the LSESU award winners, see:
LSE Class Teacher Awards 2016
LSE Excellence in Education Awards 2016
LSE Teaching Promotion Awards 2016
LSESU Teaching Excellence Awards 2016
Meantime, clicking the images below will allow you to read about all the winners in recent years (left to right top: 2011, 2012, 2013; left to right bottom: 2014, 2015).
Some of the 2013 winners are also featured in two films we produced that year.
In this first one Christopher Blunt and Joanna Roberts (Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method), Kostas Kardaras and Naa Akwetey (Statistics) and Lijing Shi and Sam Martin (Language Centre) talk about the teaching and learning that brought success in the 2013 LSESU Student Led Teaching Excellence Awards.
And here, Major Review Award winners Shakuntala Banaji (Media and Communications), Heather Jones (International History), Paul Keenan (International History) and Lea Ypi (Government) talk about classroom teaching, what technologies they use and what advice they would offer to new colleagues.