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Teaching Support Grant Proposal


These grants are designed to give faculty, departments and/or campuses the personnel or financial support needed to:

  • enhance courses and/or curricula
  • develop different ways of assessing student learning
  • implement new teaching strategies

Note: Proposal form does not save when filled out online. If you wish to save the document as you go, we recommend that you compose in your preferred software and cut, paste, and submit below.

 

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Department Information


Project Information


Lower division undergraduate
Upper division undergraduate
Both lower and upper division undergraduate


Interdisciplinary
Disciplinary Community
Individual Course



Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence Strategic Goals (Please check all that apply.) Full description of Schreyer Institute Strategic Goals

Goal 1: Promote and support faculty, graduate student, and administrator efforts to develop, enhance, and                 disseminate instructional knowledge and skills.
Goal 2: Help faculty to engage all students in the learning process and take responsibility for their own learning.
Goal 3: Foster methodical definition, identification, documentation, and assessment of student learning.
Goal 4: Increase the value of teaching excellence among all members of the university community.

Project Description, Scope, and Rationale

Describe the central issue or problem addressed by this project (please make sure your project description supports your selection of the Institute goal(s) above). What is the teaching, learning, or curricular impact of this project? What are the objectives and outcomes of this project? Who will be performing the various roles? What is the timeline for accomplishing the goals? Please be concise in your descriptions.






Evaluation and Dissemination

Describe how you will evaluate your project goal(s). How will you know whether or not you have achieved these goals? Qualitative and/or quantitative methods should be used to track progress, guide decision making, and evaluate the results of the project. How will the results of the project be sustained and integrated into your academic unit? Please be concise in your descriptions.


How will you share your results? At a minimum, all awardees are expected to share their findings with their colleagues within Penn State. Using the list below, please indicate one or more modes of dissemination that you will utilize to share your findings. Do you have plans for sharing this information beyond Penn State through regional, national, or international conferences and publications? Please indicate those plans here.


Be interviewed by SITE staff for a story (audio or videocast)
Be taped for a story (Utube)
Formal presentation to Penn State community
Other (describe in text box below)


Budget and Justification

Please itemize specific expenses directly related to the project objectives. Each amount requested should be listed and justified. Please be concise in your justifications. Please see http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/Grants/Support/ for examples of what is and is not in the scope of our funding allowances.


Summary

Please provide a title and concise summary (100 words or less) of the project. Please note, in the event that your proposal is successfully funded, the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence will use this paragraph for promotional and other reporting purposes. See previously awarded projects for summary examples.