Massey teacher is the best
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New Zealand's top tertiary teacher for 2008 is Lisa Emersonfrom the school of English and media studies at Massey University.
She received the Prime Minister's Supreme Award of $30,000 at the Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards ceremony hosted by the Minister for Tertiary Education, Pete Hodgson, in the banquet hall at Parliament last night.
Dr Emerson's win is the first supreme award won by a Massey academic.
Massey University's Hamish Anderson also got a national award for sustained excellence in teaching and $20,000. He teaches finance at Massey in Palmerston North
Dr Emerson joined Massey in 1989 and has taught and designed courses in writing across the university. Her research interests include science writing, plagiarism, online writing and writing in the disciplines.
She publishes widely on academic writing, is the author of the Writing Guidelines series and runs The Writery, an online community for creative writers.
The Integrative Grammar programme designed by Dr Emerson won the Writing Programme Administrators' teaching award in 2004 - the first outside North America.
Dr Anderson said he was stunned to receive his national award.
"Finance is a very difficult subject for many to grasp, which presents particular challenges when teaching. However, I've always simply tried my best to extend all students, whatever their capability," he said.
Nine academic staff representing Massey, Otago, Victoria, and Auckland universities, and the Otago Polytechnic and Waikato Institute of Technology received sustained excellence awards.
Excellence awards -
They were: Dr Hamish Anderson, senior lecturer, department of economics and finance, Massey University.
Julia Bruce, hairdressing tutor, centre for hairdressing and beauty therapy, Waikato Institute of Technology.
Dr Dawn Garbett, associate dean teaching and learning, faculty of education, University of Auckland.
Professor John Hosking, professor of applied computer science, department of computer science, University of Auckland.
Dr Ian McAndrew, senior lecturer in employment relations, department of management, school of business, University of Otago.
Dr John Reynolds, senior lecturer from the department of anatomy and structural biology, University of Otago.
Dr Sean Weaver, school of geography, environment and earth science, Victoria University of Wellington.
Dr Marc Wilson, senior lecturer, school of psychology, Victoria University of Wellington.
Adrian Woodhouse, catering lecturer, school of hospitality, Otago Polytechnic.
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