Distinguished Teaching Award

The 2012 Distinguished Teaching Award will be held on Thursday, April 26 in Zellerbach Playhouse, with a reception to follow in the Toll Room of the Alumni House. This event is open to the campus community.

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 240 faculty have received the award since its inception in 1959.

2012 DTA Recipients include:

Sally Goldman, South and Southeast Asian Studies
Edward Miguel, Economics
Joanna Picciotto, English
David Sklansky, Law
Debarati Sanyal, French

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.

Guidelines

2012 DTA Guidelines


Profiles of Recipients


Past Recipients (lists)

by year | by department | by last name

 

Previous Award Ceremonies (video)
(Please note: video files require the latest version of the RealPlayer plugin.)

2011
webcast of the entire DTA ceremony
Profiles of the recipients

2010
webcast of the entire DTA ceremony
Profiles of the recipients

2009
webcast of the entire DTA ceremony
Profiles of the recipients

2008
webcast of the entire DTA ceremony
Profiles of the recipients

2007
webcast of the entire DTA ceremony
Profiles of the recipients

2006
DTA video
Acceptance speeches (text): Ani Adhikari | Ananya Roy | David Wagner

2005
DTA and EIA video

2004
DTA video

2003
DTA video

2002
Slide/Tape Presentation | Acceptance speeches:
Tyrone Hayes | Usha R. Jain | Jeffrey Knapp | Leslie Kurke | Stephen C. Welter

 


 

DTA Facts and Figures | Short slide show of past recipients (8 MB file)