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Teaching Grants
The Center for Effective Teaching and Learning is pleased to offer,
with the support of the Office of Academic Affairs, faculty grants
up to $1,000 per project, and up to a total of $2,000 in a three year
period for activities aimed at the improvement of teaching and learning.
The purpose of the CETL Teaching Grants is to support projects designed
to have a direct impact on undergraduate teaching at the College of
Charleston. The Center is interested in supporting innovation and
experimentation in teaching and learning in whatever form those may
take:
- participation in workshops on teaching except when the workshop is part of a larger disciplinary meeting
- the presentation of classroom research at meetings whose primary focus is teaching and learning
- the development of new course materials that improve teaching
and learning
- the development of new methods of teaching or evaluation
Unlike Faculty Research and Development Grants, which principally
support primary research within the disciplines and the dissemination
of that research to other professionals, CETL Teaching Grants are
designed to enhance classroom teaching and learning and to assist
in conveying knowledge about teaching and learning to the College
of Charleston Community. The grants are intended to support the reflection
and inquiry that are essential to undertake teaching as scholarly
work and to promote teaching as an activity whose primary aim is to
help students learn. This year the Center welcomes applications for
two types of Teaching Grants: CETLTeaching
Grants for Travel and CETLTeaching
Grants for Faculty Development.
Both types of Teaching Grants are open to all faculty teaching at
the College of Charleston; however, preference will be given to
tenure-track and senior instructor-track faculty. The Grants are
available for activities that are beyond those routinely expected
of individual faculty members.
There are two deadlines for receipt of applications this year:
- October 31, 2005 (for activities to be conducted between
January 2006 and June 30, 2006)
- March 1, 2006 (for activites from July 2006 through December
2006)
Applicants should fill out the Teaching
Grant Application Cover Sheet and provide all requested supporting
information. While financial support of these activities by the faculty
member's department is not required for a CETL grant, such departmental
support will be looked upon favorably in the review process. Applications
will be reviewed and awards granted by the Center for Effective Teaching
and Learning. Recipients will submit a final report of project activities
to CETL within three months of the completion of the project--a 1-2
page description of the project results and an evaluation of those
results. Since the goal of these grants is to improve the teaching
and learning environment at the College of Charleston, it is important
that successful projects be shared with our College community. Faculty
who receive grants agree to make presentations, conduct workshops,
or in other ways share their experiences, if asked.
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