FIFSW Teaching Award Winners
2022-2023
FIFSW Teaching Excellence Award: Notisha Massaquoi
Dr. Notisha Massaquoi’s values, ethics, and teaching philosophy that manifests in teaching are transformative for our students and colleagues and her intentionality for this transformative learning has been realized in the educational experience and the impact on students has been significant and lasting.
FIFSW Supervision Excellence Award: Barbara Fallon
Dr. Barbara Fallon’s commitment and goals in academic supervision are admirable and the effectiveness and impact of her practice as a supervisor are exemplary. We are very fortunate to have such a dedicated mentor to emerging scholars at FIFSW.
Past winners of U of T Teaching Awards
2022: Early Career Teaching Award – Keith Adamson
In 2018, Dr. Keith Adamson created a course that emphasized how social workers can better support people with disabilities. Recognized as the first of its kind in Canada by the Ontario Hospital Association, engaged six clients or families to actively participate in the teaching process for the entire semester. He says that moving away from traditional lectures highlights the contradiction or relevance of theories when applied in real life and creates an avenue for students and client and family co-teachers to co-create new knowledge and questions about care. Read more about Adamson’s Early Career Teaching Award.
2019: Early Career Teaching Award – Toula Kourgiantakis
Dr. Toula Kourgiantakis was instrumental in the development of “Practice Fridays” – where trained actors, field instructors and industry professionals visit Master of Social Work students and provide case studies that teach foundational skills considered essential for the profession. Read more about Dr. Kourgiantakis’ Early Career Teaching Award. (Dr. Kourgiantakis is now an Associate Professor at l’École de travail social et de criminologie at Université Laval.)
2017: Northrop Frye Award – FIFSW’s Toronto Simulation Program
The Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work’s Simulation Program was named the 2017 winner of the prestigious Northrop Frye Award at the University of Toronto, in the Departmental/Divisional Category. The award – named in honour of one of the University’s most innovative thinkers — recognizes outstanding success in integrating teaching and research and demonstrating innovation and best practices to peer educators around the world. Our Simulation Program develops and assesses holistic competence in students and prepares them for social work practice. Read more about awards for FIFSW’s simulation program.
2007: President’s Teaching Award – Marion Bogo
Founded in 2006, the President’s Teaching Award (PTA) is the highest honour for teaching at the University of Toronto. The PTA recognizes sustained and ongoing excellence in three interrelated areas: Educational Leadership, Teaching Excellence, and Educational Innovation. Professor Bogo transformed social work education and practice both in Canada and across the globe, instituting major innovations that led to the development of new knowledge and ground-breaking programs. Read about her immense influence as a social work scholar and educator.