Title:	Roebuck Medal
Award Type:	Medal
Long Description:	The Roebuck Medal is a School of Education medal open to students in the final year of their initial teacher education (i.e. those on the Professional Masters of Education and the MSc Maths and Science Education)*. Each year a medal will be awarded to one student teacher who best exemplifies the values of our teacher education programmes (detailed below). The School of Education see’s the Roebuck medal as a way to i) celebrate the values we associate with our initial teacher education programmes, ii) reflect each year on how the student body engages with those values, and iii) reward the student who best exemplifies those values. The name ‘Roebuck’ has been chosen, given the School’s base on the UCD campus. We have named the medal after our home in UCD, recognising the value of place and community in teacher education. There are no similar awards open to students on our teacher education programmes – the NUI awards the student with the highest GPA an award and some disciplinary groups offer students teaching certain subjects awards (e.g. for physics teachers or economics teachers). The Roebuck medal will be unique among these in its focus on programme values. The Roebuck Medal is a values-based award. Great care has been given to considering how equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) values are embedded within our teacher education programme Accordingly, these values are embedded within the nomination criteria. *the School of Education aims to offer a new BEd initial teacher education programme in the near future. Should it (or any similar initial teacher education programme) be approved, final year students will be eligible for the Roebuck Medal. A medal will be awarded to the student as well as a €200 book token will be awarded to the medal winner.
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