Faculty Teaching Development Grants

The Center invites proposals in all areas that enhance teaching. For example:

• A workshop at Sewanee for faculty working jointly on course development.

• Attendance of one or several faculty members at an off-campus workshop or conference focused on teaching or acquiring of knowledge and skills related to the participants' teaching assignments.

• A workshop at Sewanee which focuses on a particular method of teaching or the use of a particular technology in teaching.

• Bringing to Sewanee a consultant to work with a group of faculty members on course development or some other aspect of teaching.

• Developing innovative courses using emerging technologies or new pedagogies (active learning, problem-based learning, etc).

• Course development projects for which the goal is to acquire information and materials from sources located away from Sewanee.

• Providing the funds for a student intern to work with faculty members to develop materials for teaching. An example might be an internship to build a World Wide Web site or to develop multi-media materials for use in teaching.

Recent grants awarded include:

• James Carlson (Music), to attend a workshop on Pro Tools, a sequencing and digital recording program

• Karen Kuers (Forestry and Geology), to attend a workshop entitled "Collaborative Ecological Teaching and Research Using Web Pages and Online Resources"

• Yasmeen Mohiuddin (Economics), to travel briefly to Mongolia after the 2005 Sewanee Summer-in-China program, exploring potential new sites for the program

• Richard O'Connor (Anthropology/Center for Teaching), to develop a program linked to the First-Year Program in which freshmen would learn about how faculty   members from different disciplines became interested in their areas, and to help clarify connections between courses and disciplines

• James Peterman (Philosophy), to study Mandarin in China in order better to understand Chinese philosophy

• Troy Prinkey (Spanish), to see the Salvador Dali exhibit in Philadelphia and collect materials to use in several Spanish classes

• Laurie Ramsey (French/Center for Teaching), to record native speakers in France and develop an audiovisual database of French regional accents for use in several courses

• Betsy Sandlin (Spanish), to support a creative writing project in a writing course; students will present their own pieces in an elementary school

• Jiwei Xiao (Asian Studies), to observe Chinese classes at Harvard and locate materials for use in class; a separate grant to attend a workshop entitled "2005 Summer Freeman Institute for Infusing Japan Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum"