Awards
Phi Delta Kappa is an international organization dedicated to promoting quality education. The University of Toronto chapter sponsors awards for students at all levels of post-secondary education. Self-nominations are welcome!
Funding for these awards comes from the PDK Foundation, Patrons, and the Walk for Education. The U of T chapter also supports the Future Educators Association.
Read about our past award recipients in the News section.
Excellence in Student Teaching Award
(Prospective Educator Award)
This award is open to students in an undergraduate education program with a student teaching component.
Undergraduate education majors engaged in student teaching during the summer, fall and spring of the current year are eligible.
Faculty of Education students can download the application here:
Send the completed form to Pauline Quan at the address in the application. Please forward all questions about the award to Pauline Quan via email.
Excellence in Student Teaching Award Chair:
Pauline Quan
pauline.quan@gmail.com
Winning essays at the University of Toronto level will be entered in PDK International′s Prospective Educator Award process. Chapter winners will receive a cheque for $100 and a student membership in Phi Delta Kappa. Forms will be posted in November, with submission deadline to Pauline Quan by January 29, 2010.
The Chapter winner will be sent to the International level where it will be eligible for an award of up to US$1000.
Prospective Educator's Award
The Prospective Educator's Award is a scholarship grant made to a current high school senior whose intended college major is a program in education.
Secondary school applicants can download the application here:
Send the completed package to Kari Peters at the address below.
Prospective Educator Award Chair:
Kari Peters
29 Forsythia Drive
Toronto, ON M1E 1XO
e: kari@divbyzero.com
Entries are read by a committee from the University of Toronto Chapter. The winning entries at the chapter level will receive $100 and a one-year membership in PDK.
The chapter winner will be sent to the international level where it will be eligible for an award of up to US$1000.00. Forms will be posted in November, with submission deadline to Kari Peters by January 29, 2010.
Jackman Award
The University of Toronto Chapter presents an annual award in honour of its first President, Henry Jackman. Chairperson Ruth Childs, Foundation Chair Susan Seidman, and OISE Doctoral Student Saad Chahine had the very pleasant task of reading the application essays. We are delighted that Susanna Tang, our 2007 winner from OISE was able to join us at our June social
Susanna is pictured here, 3rd from the right.
Click here to read Susanna's essay.
2008 winner
The Henry Jackman Award
The Jackman Award was established by the University of Toronto Chapter to honour its founding president Henry Jackman, who modeled lifelong dedication to education, and a deep concern for the individual student. It is open to students of education at all levels, including graduate students of education enrolled in an Ontario educational institution. The Jackman Award form has been posted, with a submission deadline of Friday, May 1, 2009.
If you have any questions, These should be sent by e-mail to the attention of the Chair, Jackman Award: Dr. Barnabas Chukwujiebere Emenogu
View the Jackman Award application instructions.
Chair, Jackman Award:
Dr. Barnabas Chukwujiebere Emenogu
The Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat
Ministry of Education
900 Bay St.
10th Floor - Mowat Block
Toronto, ON
e: barnabas.emenogu@ontario.ca
See the Jackman Award 2005 and 2006 winners.
Graduate Award
Graduate Fellowships and Scholarships
Who: Educators who are pursuing graduate degrees full-time
What: Chapter winners include $100, a year's membership in PDK, and entrance into the International level competition which offers up to five awards of $750 - $1500 US. Award payments will be made to the applicant's institution by September 1, 2008.
Download the forms from www.pdkintl.org/awards/gradfell.htm
Contact: Susan Seidman, sseidman@sympatico.ca
Applications due: Friday May 16, 2009 NOTE DEADLINE EXTENSION
Graduate Fellowships in Educational Leadership - full-time graduate students from July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009
R. Gerald Melton Scholarship - doctoral study in education administration
John M. Skalski Scholarship - doctoral study in education.
Ruey H. Witten Fellowship - post-baccalaureate study in music education.
Charles R. Foster Memorial Fellowship - master's studies
Howard M. Soule Memorial Fellowship - doctoral studies or dissertation research.
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
This award represents the Chapter level of an international award, which can be accessed at http://www.pdkintl.org/awards/odda.htm. Information about this award is posted on PDK International's website.
The chapter level award includes a year's membership in PDK, which is among the listed requirements for the International level award of $5,000 USD.
The Doctoral Dissertation Award Chair for our Chapter is Dr. Bev Freedman (bevfreedman@rogers.com) and all submissions must reach her by Friday, August 14, 2009.
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation 2007 Award Winner
Kathleen Vaughan and Barnabas Emenogu were the co-winners of the PDK Doctoral Dissertation Award winner for 2007. These awards were given to the recipients on November 30 at the Annual awards dinner and initiation ceremony held at the Host Restaurant in Toronto.
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Her thesis is based in part on Kathleen's own experience of making her Toronto neighbourhood home. She has done this through daily walks with her dog, meeting people, taking in the environment around her and then expressing this through her writing and visual art skills. As reported in York's yfile, she recollects: "I knew that as I came to re-experience the neighbourhood on my daily walks with my dog and found out more about the stories of the people and this place, I felt more and more at home. And so I wanted to investigate this process, explore how it is that someone comes to be 'em-placed' and feel at home," she said.
Vaughan's goal was to develop critical place-based arts education projects for children and youth in schools and community settings, and that's what she's doing. This January, with funding from the Ontario Arts Council's Artist in Education program, she implemented a project with 100 students at Oakwood Collegiate Institute to explore the notions of home through mixed media, texts and digital media. "This project aims to enhance the students' feelings of being at home in the world and allow them to share those visions with each other, helping to build community within the student body," Vaughan said. The students' work will then be exhibited locally at SideSpace Gallery.
PDK-UT Foundation Chair, Susan Seidman indicated that Dr. Kathleen Vaughan's dissertation was judged "an outstanding example of qualitative research, using an innovative cross-disciplinary approach, and having a strong foundation in scholarly research"
Read the article here
Barnabas Emenogu
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Henkin Conference Scholarships (PDK Members Only)
The Paul H. Henkin scholarships are provided to help educators new to the profession attend PDK's annual conference.
Henken Winner!
Shelley Thomas, who was a 2005 PDK International Excellence in Student Teaching Award Winner and 2006 Co-Chair of U of T Chapter's Walk for Education, attended PDK's Summit on Global education in Vancouver in October 2007 on a Henken Scholarship.
PDK International Awards
For information on awards
coming from Phi Delta Kappa International, see the "Foundation" section on the Research page of this site.
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