CTL Mini Grant and Teaching Circle Applications
New! Summer Mini-Grants
The CTL is piloting a summer mini-grant program in response to faculty interest. Full-time faculty members may apply for mini-grants to support teaching-related professional development travel between July 1 and October 15, a time which falls outside of our usual grant cycle.
Mini-grants of up to $500.00 each are currently available to support travel to eligible conferences and workshops between July 1, 2008 and October 15, 2008.
To be considered eligible, workshops and conferences must be completely or primarily devoted to instruction, course design, or pedagogy (as opposed to course “content”). Only applications for eligible travel will be forward to the selection committee.
To apply: submit the conference or workshop title (and a URL if possible) and supporting documents along with a completed FDC cover sheet and budget form
Grant Final Report Cover Sheet
If you have questions, please contact Leslie Ortquist-Ahrens (lortquist-ahrens@otterbein.edu; ext. 1034).
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2006-2007 Opening dates:
October 9, 2006, round one
February 26, 2007, round two
Funding for eligible applicants will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis following CTL Advisory Committee review.
Eligibility: Full-time, Part-time Faculty and Professional Teaching Staff
Mini Grant for Travel to Pedagogy Conferences and Workshops
Mini Grants of up to $500.00 are available to help support faculty travel to conferences and workshops that have a primary or extensive focus on teaching and learning.
click below for list of pedagogy conferences examples
Mini Grant for Teaching Circles
Teaching Circle Grants of up to $500.00 are designed to facilitate topical dialogues related to teaching and learning. Funding is available for three teaching circles.
Past grants have supported discusisons of Service-Learning, Ethnic Studies, and Women's Studies.
Mini Grant to Support Teaching Projects and Work in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Mini Grants of up to $300.00 are available to help support teaching projects.
Grant Final Report Cover Sheet
2006-2007 Mini Grants, as of 5/2007
TRAVELto Pedagogy Conferences Victoria Frisch
American Sign Language
Sign Language Conference, Columbus, OH Brenda Klein
Health and Sport Sciences
NATA Athletic Training Educators Conference, Dallas, TX Marjorie Vogt
Nursing
Lilly Conference West, Pomano, CA Barbara Schaffner
Nursing
Lilly Conference West, Pomano, CA Hal Lescinsky
Life and Earth Science
National Conference on Science Policy and Environment, Washington, D.C. Susan Thompson
Mathematics and Computer Science
SoTL in Mathematics, New Orleans, LA Susan Butz
2007 Hot Issues Conference: Stepping up to Clinical Simulation, Denver, CO Trudy Mason
2007 Hot Issues Conference: Stepping up to Clinical Simulation, Denver, CO Kelly Muresan
2007 Hot Issues Conference: Stepping up to Clinical Simulation, Denver, CO Marsha Huber
Business/Accounting/Economics Lilly Conference, Oxford, OH
Amy Jessen-Marshall
ISSOTL, Sidney, Australia Thomas Ahrens
TESOL, College Transition Programs for Recent Immigrants: Spanning the Globe, Tides of Change, Seattle, WA PROJECTS
TEACHING CIRCLES
Suzanne Ashworth English
GLBTQ Advisory Commission, Guest speaker, John Corvino
Departmental Conversations and Grants
Facilitation by CTL Director
Any academic department or interdisciplinary program may request to have a conversation about teaching and learning facilitated by the CTL director. Such "departmental conversations" might involve brief, regular interactions at departmental meetings, focused on a targeted strategies or issues, or they might entail a longer retreat-style workshop, developed and facilitated by the CTL director (collaboratively with departmental representatives) for the purpose of exploring teaching and learning in a specific disciplinary or interdisciplinary context.
Departmental Teaching Development Grants
Several grants will be awarded each year to promote professional development through departmental retreats or workshops dedicated to enhancing teaching and learning in the (inter)disciplines.
Grants awarded during the 2002-03 academic year:
- Education, Interterm Retreat, December 9-10, 2002: "Dialogues with Diversity" for the purpose of enhancing faculty awareness of diversity in the Columbus area in order to be better able to support student teachers
- Life Sciences, Interterm Retreat, December 17, 2002: "Developing criteria for exit interviews and rubrics" for the purposes of coding senior exit interviews and assessing senior research projects
- Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Interterm Retreat, December 18-19, 2002: "Department Dialogue: Program Review Planning" for the purpose of discussing "the content and quality of our teaching and students' learning" including departmental goals, assessment plan, majors, service courses
- SYE, Summer Workshop, TBA: "Teaching SYE: Challenges and Rewards" for the purpose of bringing together new and veteran instructors of SYE to learn about team teaching, experiential learning, and course development