The Excellent Teaching Practitioner (Merittert underviser) status is based on proven merit and commitment to teaching and educational excellence. Successful applicants will be awarded a salary rise. The status is granted independently of other academic promotion schemes.

The title can only be awarded to people who develop their teaching competencies systematically and over time significantly higher than the required basic competence. To be considered a candidate for the status of Excellent Teacher Practitioner, the applicant should have teaching experience equivalent to at least five years with a full load, including at least two years of teaching experience from NHH.

The status of Excellent Teaching Practitioner is awarded based on the application, teaching portfolio, and interviews. In the application and attached documentation, the applicant must describe, analyse, discuss and document systematic and targeted work to enhance educational quality.

The process

The application should include a short formal letter and a teaching portfolio. It is highly recommended that the teaching portfolio follow the NHH structure of a teaching portfolio. It is advised that the teaching portfolio (appendix not included) consists of no more than 10 – 15 pages.

The application should be sent through the department.

An assessment committee will evaluate the applications and interview the applicants and their department heads.

The assessment committee consists of two NHH Excellent Teaching Practitioners, an Excellent Teaching Practitioner from another institution, an external professor/associate professor in university pedagogy and a student representative from NHH.

The assessment committee shall make a comprehensive qualitative assessment, and the report should be written for each application and structured following the criteria at NHH. The assessment reports should be helpful regarding what the applicants can work on to develop further their teaching practice and knowledge of teaching and learning.

The assessment committee's assessments and recommendations are submitted to the Academic Appointment Committee, which decides on whom to reward the title Excellent Teaching Practitioner.

Those rewarded receive the title «Meritert underviser / Excellent Teaching Practitioner» and a salary supplement.

The Excellent Teaching Practitioners will be part of a pedagogical academy. The academy members are expected to contribute to pedagogical development within their departments and at the institutional level.

The Excellent Teaching Practitioners teaching portfolios are made available on nhh.no.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

The applicant must demonstrate a clear focus on student learning in all their teaching activities.

- The applicant must be aware of the connection between the chosen teaching and evaluation forms and learning outcomes.
- There must be a clear and reasoned connection between the applicant's teaching philosophy and learning.
- The applicant must be able to document good relations with their students and that the applicant asks for and responds constructively to student feedback.

The applicant has consciously and systematically endeavoured to develop the form and content of the teaching to support students' learning.

- The applicant has ideas and plans for further development work and to further develop their teaching competence and practice.

The applicant plans, maps, evaluates and modifies their teaching practice to determine what and how student learning can best be supported.

- The applicant reflects on their teaching activities in light of educational theory at the university level and knowledge of subject didactics.
- The applicant carries out R&D-based teaching, both in the sense that the academic content is based on updated and relevant research in the field, that the students make use of elements from the research process in their learning work, and in the sense that the applicant uses R&D results to underpin their teaching.

The applicant shares experiences with others and interacts constructively with students and colleagues to develop teaching and the quality of learning.

- The applicant interacts with others through the mutual exchange of experience, for instance, in discussions, at conferences and through publications.
- The applicant contributes to achieving the institution's strategic aims for educational quality.

Teaching Portfolio at NHH

Excellent Teaching Practitioners at NHH:

Iver Bragelien

Herbjørn Nysveen

Eirik Sjåholm Knudsen

Kristin Rygg

Therese Egeland

Carsten Bienz

More information: Frank Mortensen