Workshop: Collaborative Teaching Grant Proposals

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Workshop Collaborative Teaching Grant Proposals

• FIPSE Project/Academic Grants
• Roanoke College
• August 15, 2007

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What Is Integrative Learning?

• A working definition for RC
• A system of learning that deliberately makes
  connections between classes, fields, and academic
  and co-curricular life, with the end goal being
  the development of students who can encounter new
  challenges and new knowledge in a productive
  manner.

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From the FIPSE Grant Proposal

• designing an integrative curriculum is not
  enough. A curriculum that leads students to
  understand the actual complexity of the work
  world can only succeed in an environment where
  faculty interaction across disciplinary lines is
  deliberate and easily sustainable
• Need faculty development that targets not
  only what we teachthe dotsbut the connections
  between those dots.

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Collaborative Teaching Grants (CTGs)

• Voluntary participation of interested faculty
• An invitation to be creative, to pilot
  experimental course models
• Modeled after successful FSLC and WIG programs
• A year of preparation and development with
  implementation in 2008-2009
• Multiple iterations
• Informed by frequent assessments

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Handout from July 10 Workshop

• PowerPoint outline
• Some examples of different structures for
  collaborative teaching
• Freshman living/learning community at RU with
  linked courses and assignments
• George Mason, Western Washington, Providence
  Colleges research
• Possible structures at RC
• RFP and online form

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Structures for Collaborative Teaching (CT)

• Parallel teaching, serial teaching, co-teaching,
  co-facilitation
• Co-teach, co-plan but teach separately,
  collaborate only to design assessment tools
• Learning communities, linked courses
• Separate courses with integrative seminar
• Skills course linked with content coursee.g.,
  Freshman Connections _at_ RU

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Possible CT Structures at RC

• Team teachingco-teaching a course
• Linked coursestwo or more courses with some
  coordination of syllabi, assignments and with
  linked/complementary skills/content
• Course clusterstwo or more sections of same
  course or different courses with a plenary
  meeting/other common activities
• Integrated lecture seriesone or more instructors
  plan(s) course with guest faculty presenters

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Collaborative Teaching at RC

• Collaborative Teaching Grants
• Opportunities to experiment with or pilot course
  designs, activities, or assignments, etc., that
  might be used or adapted in the future
• Advantages of 1st-year CT courses
• Well work with you to adapt your CT course(s) to
  fit RCs future curriculum.

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Preparing Proposals
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General Guidelines

• Make a compelling case
• Be realistic
• Address everything requested
• Make logical, organized presentation
• Write clearly concisely

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Address Everything Requested

• Be familiar with the Request for Proposals (RFP)

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Collaborative Teaching RFP

• What is requested?
• Participating faculty
• Course number, titles, foci
• Collaborative nature of the course
• Roles of faculty
• Benefits students, faculty, Roanoke College
• Logistical concerns
• Approval of department chairs

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Address Everything Requested

• Be familiar with the Request for Proposals (RFP)
• Briefly, but thoroughly respond to each item
• When completed, check to make sure each is
  addressed

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Logical, Organized Presentation

• Use headings
• Present info in order in which its asked
• Be succinct greater need to be organized
• Someone unfamiliar with content read it

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Write Clearly Concisely

• Avoid overblown, florid language
• Avoid vague, abstract, pontificating language
• Avoid jargon

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Conclusion

• What do you still need to do?
• How can we help?
• Evaluation
• Thank you!