克雷斯家庭创新教学法基金

The Kress Family Fund for Creative Pedagogy, established by the colleagues, students, friends, and family of Susan Kress, will support an annual award of $2,000 to a faculty 提出新教学事业的会员.  只要学生的投入，创造力， and curiosity are central to the proposed enterprise, teaching is to be construed 这里泛指，不必局限于一门课程的建议.  该奖项可能 support a wide variety of pedagogical practices, including technological trials, case studies, experiential learning, field work or trips, workshops, team teaching, interdisciplinary 学习、学生研究和出版物——以及其他尚待想象的领域.  这个奖项 is intended to encourage the taking of risks and to serve as both an incentive and 一个奖励.  It is hoped that the award winner will be sustained by discussions of pedagogy across the College hosted by the Director of the Center for 领导, Teaching, and Learning and will share with the community, in some appropriate form, the pedagogical experience as well as the assessment of its success in promoting student engagement 和学习.

 

Any Skidmore faculty member, whether on or off the tenure track, may apply for this award, and the application may also be submitted in conjunction with an application 获得教师发展奖.  学院发展委员会将监督 application process and make the annual selection with the assistance of the Associate 学院院长.

 

1. Faculty may apply only for this award or may apply for this award in conjunction with 申请教师发展奖.
2. Faculty members may also apply for this award as individuals or share it as members of a collaborative team; collaborators may also come from other institutions.
3. 该奖项可能 be treated as a taxable stipend or may fund expenses in support of the 申请人的教学议程.  如果费用已经提交，所有的财务文件 and itemized receipts need to be submitted by the end of the grant period to the Office DOF/VPAA.  最后的叙述报告应提交事务厅 在资助期结束后一个月内提交DOF/VPAA.
4. Requests for equipment and special materials not ordinarily covered by grants from the Committee should be directed to the appropriate academic chair, program director, 和/或DOF/VPAA办公室.  对昂贵科学设备的建议， for example, are better directed to the chair of the department and Office of the DOF/VPAA纳入部门的运营和资本预算.
5. Travel reimbursement may cover the cost of transportation, lodging, and food.  请 NOTE:  Faculty must complete and sign an expense report giving details for each expenditure; 酒精不报销.  每项支出的原始分项收据 of $10 or more must be attached to the expense report; your credit card bill and the receipt showing the total amount paid for restaurant charges are not considered adequate 购买证明. 如果合作者要求旅费报销，这些 准则仍然适用.
6. Although faculty development funds are not typically intended to support faculty travel to conferences, this award may be used to fund attendance at conferences, workshops, 或者支持教学活动的研讨会.
7. Subsidy for production 或出版 shall carry no obligation for repayment.  It is expected, however, that grantee(s) will acknowledge support 书院院长 on exhibition 或出版.
8. 援助 cannot be applied toward reimbursement for work completed nor is aid to be used 作为获奖者的酬金.
9. Any equipment purchased under the approved research grant will remain the property 书院院长.
10. 基金资助的项目并非为个人经济利益而设.  该金融 gain (profit) be realized, faculty members are strongly encouraged to reimburse the 为它所支持的盈利企业支付学费.
11. Although projects funded by the FDC are not intended for hiring student assistants, this award may be used to hire student assistants who will both aid in, and benefit 从，教师提出的教学倡议.
12. Proposals that involve human subjects or the use of human tissues are subject to the requirements 书院院长’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) (IRB guidelines, 常见问题 表格可于以下网址索龋 http://www.火博体育.edu/irb/).  Proposals that involve the use of vertebrate animals are subject to the requirements 理大机构动物护理及使用委员会主席. IACUC指南 和表格可通过联系IACUC主席获得.  IRB和IACUC的批准是 not a prerequisite to submitting a 克雷斯家庭创新教学法基金 but are required 在研究开始之前.
13. FDC将通过电子邮件通知获奖者. 
14. Deliberations of the FDC are strictly confidential and decisions on awards are not 与个别委员会成员讨论.  所有有关奖项的查询 应寄给主席.

 

 

In making this award, the FDC will first consider the excellence of the faculty proposal.  When proposals are comparably meritorious, the FDC will award grants on the basis 下列标准之一:

1. Proposals will be assessed on their merit, and particularly on their inventive and imaginative use of pedagogies to promote student engagement, creativity, and curiosity. 
2. Proposals from faculty who have not recently received faculty development grants will be considered more favorably than faculty who have recently been granted faculty development 钱.
3. Applications from faculty who have, in the past, used grant 钱 effectively for the pursuit of pedagogical work will be considered in a more favorable light than applications from those who have received grants but who have not yet productively 雇佣他们. 
4. Applications from faculty who have not filed completed reports and expense forms on 本基金不会考虑使用以往的基金拨款. 
5. Applications from faculty who will not be under employment contract to Skidmore during 整个资助期将不获考虑.

 

形式:  在线火博体育家庭新闻创意教学法资助申请

形式:  在线火博体育 kress家庭创造性教学法资助最终报告