Office of Professional& Instructional Development (OPID)
| Grants and Awards | || | Wisconsin Teaching Fellows/Scholars | | | Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Grant 2010-2011 | | NTLF |
OPID serves as a statewide faculty development resource for University of Wisconsin System institutions. Established in 1977 as the Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Council, it was first led by a council of campus representatives who focused primarily on teaching improvement. Over the past few years OPID has expanded its emphases to meet the broader professional needs of faculty and academic staff with programming on topics such as student learning, the scholarship of teaching and learning, career stages, and faculty roles and rewards. OPID's Council remains essential to its operation, both as an advisory board and as a liaison between System and its campuses.
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Grants and Awards
Call for proposals: 2010 President's Summit on Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Academic Affairs Grant Programs for FY2010-11
Regents Teaching Excellence Awards Guidelines
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2010-2011 Wisconsin Teaching Fellows/Scholars Program
WTFS Application Form Program Description Budget Sheet
We are pleased to request applications for the 2010-11 Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars Program. This program was awarded the prestigious 2005 TIAA-CREF Theodore M. Hesburgh Certificate of Excellence for the development of innovative and diverse communities of teacher-scholars across the UW system. Please read the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows/Scholars Program Description for program requirements and selection criteria.
The Wisconsin Teaching Fellows group will include outstanding early-career, untenured faculty and teaching academic staff. The Wisconsin Teaching Scholars group will include outstanding tenured faculty and experienced academic staff. Candidates must be exceptional teachers who publicly share their expertise and demonstrate leadership. Participants in the WTFS Program should be familiar with Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) research. Each participant undertakes a significant SoTL project, records the project's progress on an electronic poster, and disseminates the results in public forums. Teaching Fellows and Scholars are expected to serve as leaders and mentors in campus and UW System SoTL work.
To Apply
If you would like to be considered as the UW-Parkside Fellow or Scholar representative, please send the Teaching Fellows/Scholars Application and the following materials to the Teaching & Learning Center, WYLL 245.- A brief (2-page limit) curriculum vitae
- A strong statement of your interest in and qualifications for the WTFS Program
- Reference Letter from your Department Chair, Dean, or Provost
- A brief description of a teaching and learning question around which a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project might be designed. Please note that, if you are selected, you are not committed to carrying out the project you describe in your application. Most Fellows and Scholars revise their projects as they participate in Faculty College and the Summer Institute, and even throughout the year.
As an introductory guide to SoTL, please spend some time exploring the UW System Leadership Site for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning web site at http://www.sotl.uwm.edu/ , and consult Randy Bass's article “The Scholarship of Teaching: What's the Problem?” at http://www.doiiit.gmu.edu/Archives/feb98/rbass.htm .
For more information, contact Jim Robinson, Director, UW-Parkside Teaching and Learning Center at 262-595-2068 or robinson@uwp.edu .Deadline for Submission is Monday November 2, 2009
aculty College 2009 Information
Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Grant 2010-2011
Request for Proposals Proposal Cover Page Budget Form
The Office for Professional and Instructional Development (OPID) requests proposals for the 2010-11 Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Grants (UTLG). This year's grants are intended to support projects:
• that focus on student learning outcomes that recognize the intentional relationship between liberal arts education, inclusive excellence, and teaching as community property.
• that focus on assessing quality teaching practices that integrate student learning outcomes and the relationship between liberal arts education and inclusive excellence, and the sharing of quality teaching practices.
• that contribute to the body of knowledge about quality teaching practices
The goals for this grant are to support one or more of the following UW System initiatives:
• support systematic inquiry of teaching and learning in all disciplines and professional schools
• provide opportunities for instructors already involved in the scholarship of teaching and learning to advance their work;
• create collaborations across disciplines, professional schools, and/or institutions to advance systematic inquiry of teaching and learning;
• advance campus priorities and system-wide strategic directions related to student learning outcomes;
• systematic inquiry of student learning outcomes in High- Impact Student Engagement Practices including learning communities, community based learning , collaborative assignments and projects, writing intensive courses, diversity and global learning, and collaborative assignments and projects (explained more fully in https://secure.aacu.org/PubExcerpts/HIGHIMP.html ) ;
• integrate inclusive excellence in the curriculum;
• integrate inclusive excellence as pedagogical practice;
*Note it is important that you clearly articulate how your proposal integrates the system initiative goals. It is not acceptable to simply provide website links.
The grant proposals may include individual, team, department, interdisciplinary, college, campus, and/or multiple campus projects. Funding will be considered accordingly.
The following characteristics will be emphasized in reviewing all grant proposals:
• A clear study design that asks critical questions about teaching and learning. The design may be qualitative or quantitative in nature.
• A dissemination plan that clearly describes how the results will be peer reviewed and made public in specifically described venues, such as presentation, performance, juried show, and/or publication throughout Wisconsin. The proposal should include presenting the results at an OPID event.
Institutional Deadline for Submission is Friday, February 12, 2010
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National Teaching and Learning Forum
OPID continues to fund a subscription to the National Teaching and Learning Forum. Each issue is available to you via the network as a .pdf file. I invite you to review their location and a listing of the Table of Contents for the 07-08 academic year. Hard copies are available for you in the Teaching & Learning Center . Issues are also available at the NTLF website at: http://www.ntlf.com . If you would like the login and password, I have it to disseminate.
The National Teaching and Learning Forum began publication in the fall of 1991 as a joint venture with the ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education. Its publisher, Dr. James Rhem, has expressed his goal of creating a "a conversation about teaching” through the Forum's “anecdotes that make a point, to serious arguments for a particular point of view, to familiar essays in which a faculty member distills wisdom from experience”.
