Fellows selected to the Teachers' Academy 2018

The new fellows to the University of Helsinki Teachers’ Academy are selected. A total of 75 applications to the Teachers’ Academy were received by the deadline of 8 October 2018. On the whole, the applicants had high merits.

The teachers nominated for membership in the all give the impression of being dedicated to their profession and to the systematic development of teaching. Their activities reflect vision, creativity, thorough pedagogical competence and insight, and the willingness to focus on the student. These teachers can present solid evidence of collecting, analysing and exploiting student feedback as well as of developing assessment practices further. The nominated teachers have shared their expertise widely within the University as well as in national and international forums.

Their teaching and supervision practices are innovative and pedagogically justified, and they convey an understanding of the constructive alignment of teaching. They genuinely involve their students in the construction of teaching, learning and assessment situations and in the development of teaching. All the nominees have solid evidence of producing innovative learning materials and of making use of the new digital learning environments. A great number of the learning materials they have developed have been praised both in Finland and abroad.

All of the nominated teachers have embraced collegiality in diverse ways and are known as key developers of teaching in their own fields. They are active players on the departmental and faculty levels and almost without exception on the University level as well, not to mention in international forums. Their activities have had an undeniable effect on the collaborative development of teaching.

The 10 new fellows to be selected to the University of Helsinki Teachers’ Academy are the following:

  • university lecturer , Department of Cultures, Faculty of Arts
  • university lecturer , Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Diseases, Faculty of Medicine
  • clinical instructor , Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
  • postdoctoral researcher , Faculty of Science
  • assistant professor , Faculty of Educational Sciences
  • professor , Faculty of Law
  • university lecturer , Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences
  • postdoctoral researcher , Department of Economics and Management, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry
  • university lecturer , Department of Geosciences and Geography, Faculty of Science
  • clinical instructor Tanja Svirskis, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine