Who can nominate?
Both students and teachers at SLU have the opportunity to nominate candidates for the prizes.
Who can be nominated?
Individuals or groups of SLU employees who have made an outstanding pedagogical contribution for SLU's students can be nominated. However, neither individuals nor groups can nominate themselves.
How do I nominate?
Nominations are made on the web-based nomination page, which is open for six weeks from the end of January/beginning of February each year. A link to the nomination page is published here during the nomination period.
How should the nomination be written?
The nomination text should clearly describe what the person or team nominated have done and justify why this effort makes the teacher or teaching team a suitable recipient of the award.
All nominations should also have a clear sender.
Examples of some previous award winners and how SLU justified their receiving the award.
The justifications under each award winner are summaries of what emerged in the nomination texts.
The individual award
Lenka Kuglerová, senior lecturer at the Department of Forest Ecology and Management.
Lenka Kuglerová is a very motivated and appreciated teacher with a strong research background. Her teaching is distinguished by a strong personal commitment to student learning, where she emphasizes, among other things, student activity, creativity and the ability to reflect and think critically.
In the courses, theoretical sections are often followed up with practical elements that are carried out in collaboration with forestry actors. In addition to course leadership, development of new courses and knowledge transfer in her specialist areas, Lenka has also contributed greatly to continuous improvement work in teaching by developing the teacher team’s pedagogy and teaching methods.
Linus Rosén, researcher at the Department of Urban and Rural Studies
Linus Rosén gives students the best conditions to learn the course content. This is done by creating a clear course structure, good communication and a predictability that provides control over the learning process. As a course leader and lecturer, Linus is encouraging, responsive and curious. Students experience Linus as an inspiring educator who listens to the group and then varies the teaching in a very creative and pedagogical way.
Anders Dahlberg, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology
Through his engaging and inspiring teaching methods, Anders Dahlberg has managed to inspire genuine interest and motivation in his students and colleagues. He invites conversation while encouraging reflection and critical thinking. Students feel listened to and involved in the teaching, which creates an inclusive and stimulating learning environment where questions and different perspectives are welcome.
When Anders' teaching is connected to current social issues, he highlights facts, the views of different stakeholders and the complexity of decision-making - without taking a position himself. In this way, students can form their own well-founded opinions. Through his commitment, openness and integrity, Anders Dahlberg has been a role model as an educator and an invaluable asset to SLU's education.
The team award
Lecturer team in clinical sciences - animal care (KV-DOV)
The lecturer team in KV-DOV has successfully conducted course development of courses in the animal care program so that the quality of teaching has been maintained or improved despite the number of students having increased from 40 to 115 students over the past 7 years.
The teaching team collaborates very well and all teachers take their own initiatives for course development and pedagogical innovation and take responsibility for the development of the program as a whole. The teaching team is also very active in spreading their pedagogical experiences to other institutions. For example, their pedagogical approach has been presented as an “EDUChat” for SLU teachers and in podcast form, “EDUTalk”, to make it easier for others to be inspired by the pedagogical approach.
The teaching team behind the course “Soil water processes in agroecosystems, MV0216”
The teaching team teaches and implements the course in a way that the students experience as clearly student-centered. The entire teaching team is very committed and they constantly use well-thought-out teaching methods. At the same time, they manage to create a learning environment that is open and inclusive, which is highlighted as very valuable, not least by international students.
The teaching team has a highly appreciated ability to clearly connect theoretical and practical elements. The students also highlight the teachers’ listening and respectful attitude as an important basis for that they as students dare to be curious and engaged, in relation to both course content and teaching methods.
The team behind the Marketing and Organization Theory Teaching Track at the Department of Economics (MOTT)
The team behind MOTT at the Department of Economics has creatively developed its teaching with a focus on pedagogical development and progression. MOTT's teachers have worked based on case and project methodologies and developed the teaching of generic skills, such as critical thinking and the ability to work in groups. The pandemic has also driven their way of designing the education based on the "flipped classroom" and alternative examination methods.