Teaching Innovation Grants

Teaching Innovation Grants (TIGs)

What is required?

Those who receive the grant will meet regularly to develop and implement effective teaching techniques and materials as outlined in the proposal. As needed, flexibility will be granted to those applicants who wish to modify a course which is only taught each spring semester. 

Upon completion of the TIG project, grant recipients will be expected to disseminate materials and findings with their colleagues at SHSU and beyond. Teams will submit any materials they used/designed as part of the funded project to the SHSU Active Learning Library. This submission will include all information needed for other instructors to integrate the course materials into their classrooms. 

In addition, TIG recipients will be asked to share their project experiences and results with other SHSU instructors--for example, at EngageEd: A Conference on Effective Teaching, or a similar public campus event. TIG recipients will also submit the results of their project to the TLC assessment team. Recipients are encouraged to publish the findings in appropriate journals or other scholarship of teaching and learning venues. 

Proposal Information

Teams comprising of 2-5 members each, originating from a single department or across disciplines, are encouraged to enhance the instructional approaches for a specific course or series of courses, and will address High Impact Practices (as termed by the Association of American Colleges and Universities), which are based on research in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Instructors of all classifications are eligible to participate. Eligibility for stipends is based on Human Resources policy.

Proposals could include: enhancing a course with a high DFQ rate, developing of a capstone project for a certain major, developing a rigorous assessment method for a specific skill set in a major, enhancing of a course that has multiple sections and instructors, testing a certain intervention for first-generation students, interdisciplinary linking of a pair of courses, adding recitation sessions to a course, testing an active learning method in a particular course, etc. Projects can be within one course, a course series, or co-curricular.

How to Apply

Applications for our Teaching Innovation Grant will open October 13th.

TIG Rubric

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