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Continuing committee
Committee Members
- Chair/président(e)
Léo Belzile
Jim Stallard
Melissa Lee
Yildiz Yilmaz
Bethany White
Hugh Chipman
Terms of Reference
Establishment

Two SSC Awards, the SSC Early Career Educator Award and the SSC Distinguished Educator Award, were established at a meeting of the Board of Directors on 22 October, 2022. The Statistics Educator Awards Committee was created as a continuing independent committee at the Board meeting held on 22-23 October 2022.

Composition

Chair: Appointed by the incoming President.
Membership: Four additional members in good standing, appointed by the incoming President, with attempts at geographic and institutional breadth across the Society.

Terms and Duties

Purpose

To recognize excellence in teaching by SSC members, with emphasis on evidence-based pedagogy, with the Early Career Award focused on emerging contributors, and the Distinguished Educator Award aimed at extensive career-long practice.

Description

The statement of purpose of the SSC is to advance the knowledge and education of Canadians concerning statistical sciences and related fields. Teaching statistics at different levels of our Canadian education system is a crucial part of this purpose. Through these awards the Society recognizes those individuals who have profound impact on the practice of teaching statistics at the tertiary educational level across Canada.

To reflect best practices in pedagogy and scholarship of teaching and learning, award winners’ use of evidence-based pedagogy and promotion of accessibility and inclusivity in learning are of primary concern.

The essential idea of these awards is to emphasize educators who treat teaching as a priority in their professional lives, and whose teaching goes beyond simple classroom excellence. Educators should be possessed of self-reflection and show strong evidence of innovation and improvement in their teaching and development of educational resources, especially through use of tested, evidence-based pedagogies. 

 

Guidelines:

The Statistics Educator Awards Committee shall:

  • Publicize the award and actively request nominations;
  • Review entries for eligibility and adjudicate awards based on the prize criteria;
  • Communicate the name of selected nominees for the Distinguished Educator Award by mid-February to the SSC executive for approval;
  • Communicate the name of selected nominees for the Early Career Educator Award by March 31st to the SSC executive for approval;
  • Inform the winner of the Distinguished Educator Award and invite them to deliver a talk at the Annual Meeting; inform the Program Chairperson as to whether the winner will be presenting a talk; ask the Treasurer to prepare a cheque to be presented to the winner; arrange with the SSC Executive Secretary for a certificate to be lettered appropriately;
  • Gather photographs, biographies and citations and send them to the Chair of the Awards Committee, and submit an article for publication in Liaison, announcing the winners of the awards.