Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence Nomination Form

Please fill out this form for a graduate student who has engaged in a substantial teaching role and who has demonstrated excellence in the classroom. Nominees should exhibit distinctive teaching performances that have had significant impacts on student learning.

Your department may nominate up to two graduate students engaged in a mentored teaching experience for this award. If you are submitting two nominations and your department’s Mentored Experience Implementation Plan has both AI and MIT experiences as part of its Required Pathways or as part of an optional Teaching Intensive Pathway, one nomination must be for an AI and one nomination must be for an MIT. If your department’s plan only has either AI or MIT, both of your nominations may be in the same category. 

In addition to completing the webform, please be sure to submit any other evidence (such as a teaching statement, course observation report, instructional materials, student evaluations, or examples of innovative pedagogy) that supports the claim of exemplary and distinctive teaching performance.

The deadline for submissions is March 17, 2026, at 12pm (noon) CT. 

For more information, please visit the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence webpage. For questions, please contact Michelle Rabe (rabe@wustl.edu), Director of Academic Initiatives and Special Projects, in the Office of Graduate Studies. 

Thank you for taking the time to submit a nomination for the Dean’s Award for Graduate Research Excellence. 

Degree Progress
Is the student in good academic standing and making timely progress toward their degree completion?
Teaching Role
For what type of mentored teaching role is this student being nominated?
Please include the following information about the class or classes that are forming the basis for the nomination of this student: Course title, Course subject code and number, Faculty instructor/supervisor, Enrollment, Description of teaching responsibilities, Instructional format (e.g., recitation, lab, lecture, student, etc.), and Number of hours the nominee met with students.
Please provide a 3-5 sentence (maximum) evaluation of the student’s teaching performance by a faculty member who observed a portion of two or more teaching sessions/activities conducted by the student. The nomination should attest to the student’s distinctive teaching and describe its outcomes or impacts.
Please provide a 3-5 sentence (maximum) evaluation of the student’s teaching performance by a faculty member who has observed teaching sessions/activities conducted by the student. The nomination should attest to the student’s distinctive teaching and describe its outcomes or impacts.
Please write the names of faculty members who endorse this nomination. This list should include at least the Chair, Director of Graduate Studies (DGS), Course Instructor, Student's Research Advisor, and one or two nominators (which might be the same as one of the aforementioned endorsers).

Other Supporting Materials

If desired, please attach any other relevant materials (i.e., teaching statement, course observation report, instructional materials, student evaluations, examples of innovative pedagogy, etc.) to support your nomination. Important note: Please press "Submit" in the document submission section after uploading the material to ensure that it is submitted. When you are finished with the entire nomination, you will also select "Submit" at the end of the webform.

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