Dr. Marcia Staff, Chair of the FIREL department and Regents Professor of Business Law, was recently named the winner of the 2009 Charles M. Hewitt Master Teacher Competition.
Dr. Staff’s proposal, “Taking the Fear Out of Teaching the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods,” was selected through a blind review process by a panel of three judges, all prior winners of the Master Teacher Competition. She was one of four finalists in the competition.
“I am thrilled and honored to have been selected for such an honor,” Dr. Staff said. “The Master Teacher Competition at the annual meeting of Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) is one of the highlights of the meeting. The winner is selected by the audience which includes the best teachers in the academy.”
The competition highlights the best classroom teaching as it incorporates new or evolving course subject matter, cultural shifts, advances in pedagogy, and/or advances in teaching technology all of which strive to encourage students to become engaged in the learning process and learn from their own efforts and from each other.
Dr. Staff, along with the other finalists, presented at the 2009 ASLB Conference.
