Teaching Innovation Grants

What are Teaching Innovation Grants?

As a continuation of the program previously coordinated by TLC and the STEM Center, Teaching Innovation Grants (TIGs) set out to encourage instructors to utilize active learning techniques in the classroom. 

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 the TLC Teaching and Learning Conference 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. Each year, especially promising TIG teams will be invited to become Engaged Learning Fellows. This fellowship comes with two years of TLC support to prepare, present, and publish a manuscript based on the TIG final report. For more details, see here.

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 ranks are eligible to participate, but those classified as non-exempt do not qualify for stipends.

Proposals could include: enhancing a course with a high DFW 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 or other approaches to making excellence inclusive, 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 can you apply?

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

For guidance, please refer to the TIG rubric (Updated 11/20/2024).

Please submit completed TIG applications to the Teaching & Learning Center tlc@shsu.edu