Teaching Innovation Prize 2010
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Innovation Prize Winners
Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, CRLT, and the University Library
Nominations are closed until 2010. Thank you for your interest.
Questions? See: Teaching Innovation Prize FAQs, Email:
crlttip2010@umich.edu
Goals
- To recognize faculty who have developed innovative approaches to teaching that incorporate creative pedagogies, e.g., new uses of instructional technology, new ways to engage students in the learning process, new approaches to student collaboration, or new methods for replicating the advantages of a small course in a large lecture.
- To encourage the dissemination of best practices by sharing promising innovations with faculty more broadly.
Award
The award will provide $5,000 to five faculty members for their innovative work in teaching.
The awards will be announced each May at the annual, campus-wide technology conference, Enriching Scholarship.
The awardees will be asked to share their innovations with the broader U-M community at Enriching Scholarship and at other campus-wide events, and they will be eligible for funding to publish and present at conferences elsewhere.
Eligibility
The award is open, on the Ann Arbor campus of the University, to all tenured and tenure-track faculty; clinical instructional faculty; lecturers who have continuing appointments and course development responsibilities (i.e., an assignment from the dean, chair, or designee to develop a new course or significantly revise an existing course).
Nominations
Nominations from the full range of instructional settings at U-M are encouraged.
All Ann Arbor campus faculty, students, chairs, directors, deans, and staff members are eligible to nominate individuals for this prize. Faculty self-nominations are also accepted.
All nominations should use the attached one-page nomination form.
Selection Criteria
- originality
- demonstrated significant impact on teaching effectiveness, student learning and/or retention
- potential for widespread use within or across disciplines
- potential for scalability
- examples of teaching materials (e.g., portfolio, web links, and video clips)
- information about the origin of the innovative idea
- evidence of impact on student learning and attitudes, including letters of support from current or past students
Selection Process
Nominations will be judged by a selection committee composed of Thurnau Professors and staff from the Office of the Provost, CRLT, and the Library. The application and selection process will involve two steps.
Step One: One-page nomination forms will be reviewed by the selection committee, and finalists will be invited to submit full applications.
Step Two: Finalists will submit a 1-2 page narrative and support materials that document the effectiveness of their innovation, such as:
The selection committee will recommend winners to the Provost, who will make the final decision.
Timing
| January 1: | Copetition begins |
| January 28: | Nomination forms due |
| February 22: | Finalists notified |
| March 11: | Final applications due |
| May 3: | Winners announced at Enriching Scholarship |
Nominations can be made starting January 1, 2010
For questions about the Prize