CTE Teaching Partnerships
Proposals Due April 25, 2008
The Teaching Partners Program helps facilitate a sustained and intensive exchange about teaching between two or three individual faculty members. Each faculty team designs a series of activities over the academic year that best meets their particular needs and interests around teaching. Participants receive a summer stipend of $500. There are a total of 10 stipends available for summer 2008. Over the course of the summer, each faculty team will decide how they would like to work together. Successful completion of the program entails:- Attending an orientation and 1-2 meetings with other program participants during the summer, 2008 to share suggestions and experiences;
- Meeting at least 3 times during the summer with your teaching partner to discuss teaching-related issues; this includes reading CTE resources on course design
- Reviewing each other’s course design, syllabi, etc.
- Observing and giving feedback on one of your teaching partner's classes in the fall 2008;
- Writing a brief reflection on the year's activities and impact on your teaching in spring 2009;
- Helping support the following year's Teaching Partnership program (speaking at the orientation meeting, sharing experiences and suggestions, etc.).
The specific topics, activities, and themes are up to each faculty team. Some suggestions are:
- helping development of course design
- reviewing each other's syllabi for content, clarity, organization;
- collaborating on effective use of technological tools;
- collaborating on specific content-related teaching projects;
- reviewing teaching goals, assignments, and outcomes;
- assessing student engagement through classroom observation and focus group evaluations;
- reviewing lecture and presentation styles through classroom observation or use of video recording;
- reviewing and responding to student evaluations;
- collaborating on developing a Teaching Portfolio;
- writing letters for each other's Promotion files;
You are encouraged to find a colleague with whom you would like to discuss your teaching. This person does NOT have to be in your department - in fact it is often very helpful to have to explain your teaching goals to someone who does not share your disciplinary assumptions. CTE will help with this process, if needed.
To APPLY: By April 25, 2008, send the following material via email to the Director: (see contact info for email address)
- Names and contact information for participating faculty members (names, department, e-mail, phone)
- Brief overview of each person's teaching history (250 words or less)
- Brief description of the kinds of teaching-related issues you plan to work on over the academic year (500 words or less
- Tentative outline of the activities you plan on undertaking together; and
- Summer schedules including available meeting times.
Some Proposals & Final Reports of Prior Partners
- Teaching Partner Grant Proposal (PDF) - Dr. Isabel P. B. Fêo Rodrigues (Sociology & Anthropology Department; Women's Studies Program) and Dr. Bridget A. Teboh (History Department; African/African-American Program; Women's Studies Program)
- Application & Final Report (PDF) - Anna Dempsey (Art History), Maureen Hall (Education), and Dr. Frank Scarano (Medical Laboratory Science)
- Application (PDF) - Michael Baum (Political Science) & Brian Williams (History)
- Application (PDF) - Isabel Rodrigues (Sociology/Anthropology), Lisa Knauer (Sociology/Anthropology), and Cristina Mehrtens (History)
- Application (PDF) - Brenda Bouchard (Medical Laboratory Science) & Dorothy Bergeron (Medical Laboratory Science)
