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    Teaching Development Grants

    The Course Design and Teaching Development grant programs are funded by Academic Affairs and administered through the Center for Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT). These funds support the professional development of PFW faculty, helping to improve their teaching skills, knowledge, and effectiveness. The grants can be used for attending conferences, workshops, conducting research, or developing new teaching materials. For more information or to apply for next year's grants, please contact CELT.

    • Post-Promotion Grant

      Post-Promotion Grant

      A 3-5 year program where Associate faculty can further develop skills to help with building a portfolio to demonstrate competence and/or excellence in teaching. Focus areas include: 

      • Year 1 - Course design quality and delivery 
      • Year 2 - SoTL knowledge and production 
      • Year 3 - PFW student needs and challenges 
      • Years 4 & 5 - Becoming a teaching mentor or expanding SoTL expertise and output  
      • Track 1: Learn a variety of teaching strategies, become a teaching mentor 
      • Track 2: Further build SoTL expertise and output (two separate tracks) 

      Faculty accepted into this program commit to the first three years with a preference to complete all five years. A $2,500 grant is awarded through year 1 of the program. For all faculty who commit to completing years 4 and 5, an additional $2,500 grant is awarded. A brief description of each focus area is below: 

      Year 1: Course Design Quality and Delivery 

      Course design (or redesign) is the foundation for pedagogically sound (and satisfying) teaching. This programming guides faculty through the backward course design model. Five 2-hour workshops and a minimum of four one-on-one consultations are required. Topics revolve around building a pedagogically sound course structure, including designing course learning goals, learning objectives, designing and aligning assessments, developing and aligning learning activities and interaction design, weekly structure and syllabus design, and studying effective communication with and support for students including identifying and supporting struggling students. 

      Year 2: SoTL Knowledge and Production 

      Towards the end of year 1 (above) and moving into year 2, similar to identifying a program of research, participants will choose a program of SoTL, which will guide their work for the next 2-4 years. This year’s cohort provides post-tenure faculty with structured support to design and implement a teaching-related research project. The year-long program consists of five required group workshops and a minimum of five individualized consultations. Topics include an overview of SoTL, refining topic/question, literature review, study design, data collection & instruments, IRB, planning for publication and presentation, data analysis, and data management. 

      Year 3: PFW Student Needs and Challenges 

      Participant’s SoTL program continues in Year 3, which will be a focused cohort giving specific attention to the student-instructor classroom exchange. It will blend the continued development of pedagogy and instruction with a deep understanding of PFW’s student body, their needs, strengths, and challenges. The program consists of eight required group workshops and a minimum of five individualized consultations. Topics and activities include research focused on student learning, connection, and development; developing mechanisms for understanding the needs of our students; work with a CELT Teaching Fellow including a SGID or Faculty observation; and an Online Course Design Review or syllabus and assignment review. This year will also provide a unique opportunity for participants to work with student consultants, who will observe and provide comprehensive feedback to faculty regarding teaching methodologies, student relationships, the use of Brightspace, and grading practices. 

      Year 4 & 5: Becoming a Teaching Mentor or Expanding SoTL expertise and Output 

      During years 4 and 5 faculty will need to choose a track to pursue. This can include: 

      • Track 1: Becoming a Teaching Mentor 

      High and Small Impact Practices (year 4) - Year 4 will be a focused cohort giving post-promotion faculty-specific instruction in the development and comprehensive implementation of a High Impact (teaching) Practice (HIP). This will span both Fall and Spring semesters and focus on three key areas: 

      1. Participants will choose a HIP and comprehensively integrate it into a course. The HIP will seek to address a student or course “problem” using the knowledge and application of a HIP. Faculty will develop an assessment plan for understanding the impact of the HIP. 
      1. Faculty will be consulted in the development phase by a student review panel, a faculty mentor who has substantial experience with their chosen HIP, peer review, and the CELT consultant leading the cohort. 
      1. Faculty will assess the effectiveness of the implementation of the HIP while teaching the course through a pre-test, mid-semester test, Small Group Instructional Diagnosis (SGID), and a post-test. 

      Becoming a Teaching Mentor (year 5 of High and Small Impact Practices track) - We would like to use this program to train faculty to become Peer Reviewers in CELT and for the campus. This will help to better support our existing review Fellows program while growing the number of trained faculty who are prepared to conduct summative reviews. 

      • Track 2: Expanding SoTL expertise and Output 
    • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Grant

      Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Grant

      A 2-year cohort-style program designed to provide structured support for up to 5 faculty as they complete a robust research project focused on teaching and learning. 

        

      The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Certificate program is designed to provide structured support for post-promotion faculty (who are not concurrently participating in Post-Promotion Grants) to complete a robust research project focused on teaching and learning. Participants in this 2-year cohort-style program will complete a dynamic series of workshops, group sessions, and independent work to deeply engage with their pedagogical interests. Topics include an overview of SoTL, refining topic/question, literature review, study design, data collection & instruments, IRB, planning for publication and presentation, data analysis, and data management. 

    • High Impact Practices Grant

      High Impact Practices Grant

      This program will accommodate up to 5 faculty who seek to engage students in community-engaged learning. These activities seek to connect learning to life outside the university, foster quality interaction between faculty and students, help students better understand themselves in relation to content, and increase student engagement in the classroom. To name a few: collaborative learning, service learning, project-based learning, and team-based learning all seek these outcomes. Over a semester, faculty will design and/or re-design a course to include consistent implementation of a high impact practice. Participants will be compensated once they complete the HIP implementation and participate in a peer review of the HIP. 

    • Online Course Design Grant

      Online Course Design Grant

      This program will support up to 5 faculty through the substantial redesign of an existing online course by following the backward course design model with the goal of increasing student success. Participants will analyze challenges faced by both instructors and students in the online environment, develop scaffolding assessments and assignments, map learning activities to desired learning outcomes, review and incorporate pedagogically appropriate educational technologies, and implement strategies to support student success. The cohort consists of five required workshops and a minimum of 5 one-on-one consultations. 

    • Advanced AI Cohort Grant

      Advanced AI Cohort Grant

      CELT leadership will guide 10 faculty (roughly 1-2 faculty per college or school) as they identify disciplinary relevant AI tools while testing their capabilities, limitations, and proposing best practices for classroom integration. Collectively, the group will develop a campus-wide resource bank that outlines the AI tools they incorporated, the tools, their capabilities, costs, and more. 

    • Course Design for New Faculty Grant

      Course Design for New Faculty Grant

      Five pre-promotion faculty will be selected to design one or more of their courses using the backward course design model. This programming targets new faculty to support them in an effective start to their teaching careers, through the backward course design model. Five 2-hour workshops and a minimum of four one-on-one consultations are required. Topics revolve around building a pedagogically sound course structure, including designing course learning goals, learning objectives, designing and aligning assessments, developing and aligning learning activities and interaction design, weekly structure and syllabus design, and studying effective communication with and support for students including identifying and supporting struggling students. 

    • Summer Instructional Development Grant

      Summer Instructional Development Grant

      CELT’s Summer Instructional Development (SID) Grant program provides up to $4000 in funding to help faculty (1) achieve teaching-related professional development goals and (2) considerably enhance existing courses in ways that significantly improve student learning and success at Purdue University Fort Wayne. This grant program is open to full-time faculty in tenured, tenure-track, clinical, and lecturer positions at PFW. Visiting faculty are not eligible. Preference will be given to applicants who have not received funding within the previous 5 years.

      We welcome proposals that involve significant course redesigns, innovations, and/or creative teaching and learning approaches. Projects involving the development of new courses are not eligible for this grant. For more information and guidelines for developing your proposal, please review the Grant Guidelines and Application. 

      Completed proposals must be submitted electronically through the SID Grant Proposal Submission form. Submission Deadline: February 10th, 2025.

      For more information or questions, please contact Rachel Ramsey at [email protected].

      View Past Grant Recipients

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