Congratulations go to Andrew Holm, a TA within the Mathematics Department, who was recently nominated for the 2010 Teaching Assistants’ Training Program (TATP) Teaching Excellence Award. Out of 189 nominated TAs (with over 500 nominations) he was one of 12 chosen to be short-listed for the award.
The purpose of the award is to recognize outstanding achievements of teaching assistants across all four divisions in the School of Graduate Students at the University of Toronto. It is a great achievement for Andrew and once again recognizes the excellence in our TAs within the department.
When asked about the nomination and if he had any advice to give to other fellow TAs Andrew had the following to say:
Andrew Holm was recently short-listed for the 2010 TATP Teaching Excellence Awards
“I have always felt a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment when I help others and share my knowledge and experiences to further their learning. For that reason, I have always aspired to be a teacher.
I think that teaching offers an opportunity to instil a love of learning into students, while the same time, playing a role in the shaping of our future.
Teaching is an ongoing learning process. Through experience and feedback from students and other teachers, I hope to continually improve my own teaching abilities.
In addition to providing important learning opportunities, teachers need to foster good character development by modelling kindness, respect, and good citizenship.
I believe I posses all these traits which are some reasons why I was selected for this award.”
The Department extends it’s congratulations to Andrew for this honoured nomination!