Teaching Excellence Grants on Service Learning
Fall 2008 and/or Spring 2009
This grant program helps faculty interested in implementing service-learning strategies in Fall 2008 and/or Spring 2009 disciplinary courses. The proposed service-learning enhancement should directly impact discipline-specific learning outcomes. Faculty will receive grants of $3500 each to engage in this instructional development project. Faculty new to service-learning are encouraged to apply.
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Teaching Excellence Technology Grants: Tablet PCs in Teaching
Summer 2008 - Spring 2009
The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), in partnership with Teaching and Technology Services (TTS), extends an invitation to all full-time faculty to submit proposals for projects that investigate specific strategies for using Tablet PCs in teaching. Selected applicants will receive use of a Gateway Tablet PC beginning Summer 2008 through Spring 2009. The aim of this project is to encourage creative consideration of how to use this specific technology to improve teaching and learning.
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Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) Technology Grants: Classroom Response Systems
Summer semesters

The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) extends an invitation to all full-time faculty to investigate the use of classroom response systems in their teaching. A classroom response system allows an instructor to obtain instant feedback from students using remote control devices and a portable receiver. The classroom response systems can be used to ask conceptual questions during class and receive equally important feedback from students in a timely manner. Classroom response systems can be used in other productive ways such as integrating peer instruction, formative assessment, and student engagement. Those receiving the grant will be loaned a set of iClicker™ classroom response systems for the summer semesters.
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Teaching Excellence Grants on Fundamentals of Inquiry
2007 - 2008

The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), in partnership with the Office for University 101 Programs, extends an invitation to all full-time Columbia faculty to develop plans for new courses and course strategies that teach the fundamentals of inquiry to undergraduate students in all disciplines. The primary goal of this initiative is to foster innovative courses and instruction methods, resulting in an expanded number of undergraduates engaged in inquiry. Interested faculty should apply by November 16, 2007.
Request for Proposals Fall 2007 | Application | Participant Picture | Participant List
 
Teaching Excellence Grants on Writing Across the Curriculum
2007 - 2008

This grant program incorporates Writing Across the Curriculum, a long-standing pedagogical approach that values writing as a mode of learning. Writing Across the Curriculum empowers faculty across the disciplines to integrate writing into their content courses in meaningful and effective ways. This grant program utilizes the best practices of Writing Across the Disciplines, including faculty development and interdisciplinary collaboration, to prepare participants from many disciplines to teach and evaluate student writing. Interested faculty should apply by November 16, 2007.
Request for Proposals Fall 2007 | Application | Participant List
 
Teaching Excellence Technology Grants: Tablet PCs in Teaching
2007 - 2008

The Center for Teaching Excellence, in partnership with Teaching and Technology Services (TTS), loaned a Gateway Tablet PC for one year to sixteen full-time faculty.  A Tablet PC is a notebook computer with a reversible screen that can be used with a stylus as an input device. This technology allows for the versatility of writing on your PC like you would on paper. This project's aim is to provide the technology to faculty in order to explore new options of pedagogy involving communication, collaboration, and feedback using a Tablet PC.
Request for Proposals Summer 2007 | Participant Picture | Participant List
 
Teaching Excellence Grants on Fundamentals of Inquiry
Summer 2007

The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), in partnership with the Office for University 101 Programs, awarded 13 Teaching Excellence Grants of $3500 each to faculty interested in joining an interdisciplinary team and to design a course that includes the best elements of inquiry across disciplines. The primary goal of this initiative is to foster innovative courses and instruction methods, resulting in an expanded number of undergraduates engaged in inquiry.
Request for Proposals Summer 2007 | Participant Picture | Participant List | Resources