Jury chair Jaco Slingerland appealed to students just before the voting in the annual elections to vote for the ‘rising stars’ among the teachers: people who teach brilliantly but time and again narrowly miss getting on the longlist. But students do not seem to have listened to his appeal. The longlist includes six previous winners and four previous nominees.
But two names are conspicuously absent from the longlist: ex-winners Gert Peek of Soil Science and Huub Savelkoul of Immunology and Cell Biology. This is surprising, as Peek and Savelkoul are certainly top-class: Peek is the only teacher to have won twice (in 2000 and in 2011) and Savelkoul has been nominated so many times that he received a special prize – the ‘Teacher hors classe’ –in 2010.
The complete longlist for 2016: Noelle Aarts, Curtis Barrett, Frits Claassen, Roel Dijksma, Martijn Duineveld, Maria Forlenza, André van Lammeren, Arie Nieuwenhuizen, Bert van ’t Ooster, Jan den Ouden, Stefano Pascucci, Ute Sass-Klaassen, Gosse Schraa, Arie Terlouw, Paul Torfs, Kees van Veluw. LvdN
| The full longlist of 2016 | André van Lammeren | winner 2010 |
|---|---|---|
| Arie Nieuwenhuizen | nominated | |
| Arie Terlouw | winner 2007 | |
| Bert van ‘t Ooster | ||
| Curtis Barrett | ||
| Frits Claassen | winner 2012 | |
| Gosse Schraa | winner 2004 | |
| Jan den Ouden | winner 2009 | |
| Kees van Veluw | ||
| Maria Forlenza | nominated | |
| Martijn Duineveld | ||
| Noelle Aarts | winner 2015 | |
| Paul Torfs | nominated | |
| Roel Dijksma | ||
| Stefano Pascucci | ||
| Ute Sass-Klaassen | nominated |
Also view:
Teacher of the Year Award at Dies Natalis
Jury chair Teacher of the Year: reward the gem teacher
Ex-winners on Teacher of the Year longlist