The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning announces the recipients of summer Teaching and Learning Grants.
Jason Aryeh in Performing Arts used $2500 to research teaching strategies in infusion dance techniques. Infusion dance draws from established dancing forms found in different cultures and countries and blends them for a multicultural perspective of current dance trends. Jason’s work in infusion dance pedagogy will provide students with a globalized repertoire of movements to enhance their own choreographic skills.
The Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) Advisory Council and the WGS Capstone Committee were awarded $5750 to develop new pedagogical resources for the minor program’s capstone course. The committees will renew the course’s teaching modules to include recent scholarship on feminist topics. The updates to the teaching modules will provide students with a capstone course that better reflects current approaches to research in the field.
Casey DiRienzo in Economics used $1500 to support her development of a summer online economics course for high-achieving incoming first-year students. CATL funds provided the opportunity to create videos and visual representations of the more challenging concepts taught in the course, helping students to engage more fully with course content and to perform successfully on course assignments.
Ketevan Kupatadze in World Languages and Cultures used $2500 to support work done with the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) on enhancing her courses through flipped instruction. Outcomes published through ISSOTL will feature examples of best practices for implementing flipped classroom strategies.
Rebecca Pope-Ruark, Philip Motley, William Moner, and Joel Hollingsworth (multiple departments) were awarded $5000 to develop and pilot a cross-disciplinary curriculum incorporating Agile management practices, design thinking, and service- and team-based learning. Over the course of a semester or year, the pilot curriculum will bring together students and faculty from several departments to collaborate on solving an existing real-world challenge.
Scott Windham used $1000 to support creating instructional grammar videos for his flipped 2nd-year German courses. The videos will target grammar concepts most challenging for students and will also compare German grammar features to English ones, filling a gap currently existing in German language instruction.
The CATL Teaching and Learning Grants program supports innovative teaching and learning projects. Grants typically range from $1,000 to $5,000, although smaller and larger proposals are considered. Grants generally support start-up and one-time expenses (materials, stipends, and so on), rather than paying for ongoing operational costs. For more information, visit our website at http://www.elon.edu/e-web/academics/teaching/grants.xhtml.