Students have voted: Naomi Seiler receives Hamburg Teaching Award 2024
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For outstanding teaching, innovative teaching methods and new teaching concepts, the winners receive the City of Hamburg Teaching Award 2024. The award is presented annually to lecturers at Hamburg's six state universities and is endowed with 10,000 euros each. The nominations come from the Hamburg student body. Naomi Seiler, lecturer in the Department of School Music and Instrumental Pedagogy, receives this award on behalf of the Hamburg University of Music and Drama (HfMT).
Science Senator Katharina Fegebank: "Science is alive in Hamburg because it is lived every day by people with passion. This is exactly what the Hamburg Teaching Award makes visible. The prizewinners have impressed with innovative teaching formats and new ideas and arouse curiosity and a desire to learn day after day. Their commitment motivates students to perform at their best, and this benefits the universities as well as Hamburg as a science location as a whole. I congratulate all award winners on this well-deserved honor!"
Prof. Dr. Jonas Dietrich, Vice President for Studies and Teaching at the HfMT: "According to her students, Naomi Seiler's teaching is characterized both by her high level of methodological and didactic competence as well as her empathetic and individual support of her students. Both the personal development and the professional future of her students are promoted in an always pleasant and at the same time professional working atmosphere in an exemplary balance of closeness and distance. We warmly congratulate Naomi Seiler on the Teaching Award 2024!"
Background
Every year, students at participating state universities are invited to submit nominations for the Hamburg Teaching Award. The proposals are then evaluated by an internal university jury together with the students in an open discussion. The focus is on a high level of subject-specific and didactic expertise on the part of the lecturers, innovative teaching methods, quality assurance via feedback systems, motivational skills and the creation of links to subject-specific or professional practice.