Vice Chancellor’s Awards (PELT)
Applying for an Award
The Vice Chancellor’s PELT Awards recognise and reward staff, as either individuals or as a small team, for the excellence of their teaching and/or for making a significant and innovative contribution to students’ learning or learning experiences.
Recommendations and Nominations to be advised
Academic (including Sessional staff) and General staff who have been at Notre Dame for a minimum of three years are eligible to be nominated.
The purpose of the awards is to:
- Build on an already strong institutional culture of high expectations for teaching performance, high quality student learning experiences, supervision and pastoral care of students
- Acknowledge the role of academic staff and general staff who have played an important support role in contributing to excellence in teaching, learning and pastoral care of students
- Celebrate, showcase and share excellent practices as an engaged learning community
Nominations can be made:
- By recommendation from students or staff (colleagues)
- Recommendations close 24 November 2023
- Recommend a staff member now
- Or by self-nominating as an individual or a team
Staff who receive a recommendation are free to accept, defer or decline this invitation to proceed with their nomination.
All interested staff (whether they have been recommended by others or are self-nominating) need to complete a formal nomination form prior to progressing their Award application. Nomination forms need to be signed by the relevant Dean or equivalent and submitted to curriculum.quality@nd.edu.au no later than Friday 18 December 2023.
Refer to the VC Awards Policy and Procedure below for the full information.
Key dates
October | Call for recommendations and nominations |
August 2023 | Information session recordings (from 2021) - Please note the dates in the nomination video are wrong Am I ready to nominate for an Award? Writing your Award application |
October 2023 – February 2024 | Nominees progress their applications |
24 November 2023 | Deadline to recommend a staff member |
18 December 2023 | Deadline for completed nomination forms |
5 February 2024 | Deadline for completed application forms |
February 2024 | Selection Advisory Panel meets for selection process |
March/April 2024 | Award recipients announced |
Policy, procedures and forms for nominees:
- Policy: Vice Chancellor’s Awards - Promoting Excellence in Learning and Teaching (PELT)
- Procedure: Vice Chancellor’s Awards - Promoting Excellence in Learning and Teaching (PELT)
- Nomination Form for Vice Chancellor’s Awards (PELT) Awards
- Application Cover Sheet: Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Initiatives that Enhance Student Learning
- Application Cover Sheet: Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Teaching Excellence
- Application Cover Sheet: Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning
- PELT Assessment Rubric
Resources available to nominees:
- Information session recordings (From 2021)
- More tips for writing your PELT Application
- PELT Award winners talk about the awards process - Watch Now
- PELT Award winners talk about teaching - Watch Now
- Exemplars - Awards for Initiatives that Enhance Student Learning (ND login required)
- Exemplars – Awards for Teaching Excellence (ND login required)
- Academic Excellence Framework (see Appendix 1)
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