Leadership in Faculty Teaching Award
Humber College
Michael Baldwin
Faculty/Department: Design Foundation
Michael Baldwin emphasizes the importance of placing student needs first. Every semester, he holds full faculty meetings to review the progress of each student's individual talents, abilities and education. These discussions are driven by the simple idea that all students can succeed and as faculty, it is their role to guide that potential.
Ray Chateau
Faculty/Department: Professional Golf Management Program
Ray Chateau is a dedicated, passionate educator who offers his students one-on-one classes to ensure they graduate. He considers "planting the seed early" important for intellectual growth by ensuring his students are aware of increased options provided by higher education and life-long learning.
Christina Clements
Faculty/Department: Business
Christina Clements' classroom is an open learning environment where students share their ideas. She captures their interest and imagination through her innovative approach to learning which encourages students to assess topics and share opinions through the creative use of websites, blogs and online questionnaires, and carefully crafted assignments.
Ausra Karka
Faculty/Department: ESL and Remedial Communications
Ausra Karka is a dedicated educator who actively coaches her students to help them succeed in their studies. Recognizing that English is not the first language of many of her students, she provides various strategies in every class to help her students with their language development. She also brings enthusiasm and humour into her classrooms, and she makes each lecture an exciting experience for both herself and her students.
Paul McCabe
Faculty/Department: School of Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism
Paul McCabe has been instrumental in developing a web-based simulation program to enhance business and entrepreneurial curriculum for students studying Hospitality Management. The program challenges students to develop skills and put into practice the theory of hospitality business and ownership. Through this technique, he is able to influence, motivate and inspire his students to achieve excellence.
Jonathan Salem-Wiseman
Faculty/Department: General Arts and Sciences
Jonathan Salem-Wiseman was instrumental in changing Humber's philosophy curriculum into dynamic, student-centred courses. In promoting learning, he remains open and frank about his level of knowledge, ignorance, biases, and interests as both a teacher and academic. |
