New! The 2008 Distinguished Teaching Award ceremony webcast is available.
The Berkeley campus' most prestigious award for teaching, the Distinguished Teaching Award is intended to encourage and recognize individual excellence in teaching. Such teaching rises above good teaching: it incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning, and has a life-long impact. While acknowledging the fact that the Berkeley faculty comprises many outstanding teachers, the Committee on Teaching is extremely selective in determining the recipients of this award: only 227 faculty have received the award since its inception in 1959.
As part of the nomination process, instructors prepare a statement of teaching philosophy. Many of those statements have been collected in What Good Teachers Say About Teaching. We encourage you to browse this booklet; we’re sure that you’ll be inspired.
The 2008 Teaching Awards ceremony was held on Wednesday, April 23 in Zellerbach Playhouse. Each year the campus community is invited to attend the 5:00 pm ceremony and reception that follows.
Guidelines
Profiles of Recipients
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Previous Award Ceremonies (video)
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2008
webcast of the entire DTA ceremony
Profiles of the recipients2007
webcast of the entire DTA ceremony
Profiles of the recipients2006
DTA video
Acceptance speeches (text): Ani Adhikari | Ananya Roy | David Wagner2005
DTA and EIA video2004
DTA video2003
DTA video2002
Slide/Tape Presentation | Acceptance speeches:
Tyrone Hayes | Usha R. Jain | Jeffrey Knapp | Leslie Kurke | Stephen C. Welter
Past Recipients (lists)
DTA Facts and Figures | Short slide show of past recipients (8 MB file)