Instructions for Teaching Enhancement Grant Application
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Fill out the Teaching Enhancement Grant application form completely, including amounts of
stipend and expenses in the budget form. Note: the total budget request cannot exceed
$2000 per single faculty member, or a maximum of $4000 per team of faculty. Insert the
narrative, timetable, bibliography, and CV into the appropriate parts of the application form.
Make sure the CV is in the appropriate format (see instructions below).
If there are multiple applicants for a single project (team effort), each partner must fill out the
first two pages of the application (applicant data and budget form) and must provide a CV in
correct format, but the team may submit just one copy of the narrative for review. Be sure to
include each team member’s allotted stipend and expenses in their individual budget request.
Each team member will file an individual final report for the project.
Follow the format below by addressing each of the numbered points (see below) in the
narrative, separating the sections of the narrative with the bold-faced headings.
Save the entire grant application, including all of the appendices as one Word or pdf file and
email it to the Faculty Development Center (facdevctr@stthomas.edu) before 4 p.m. on
March 1.
The narrative is limited to 5 pages. All text must be double spaced, with 12 point Times
New Roman font, and 1 inch margins.
1. Rationale and need for the project: Describe the teaching methodology you currently use
in the course(s) affected by your project. What new pedagogy do you propose to explore to
enhance the teaching and learning in your course(s). Why? That is, what aspects of
teaching/learning in those course(s) could be enhanced with this pedagogy and why do you think
it is appropriate? How might the changes you make affect other courses in your department,
such as those that directly follow it?
2. Goals and objectives: State your broad project goals, and also include specific, measurable
objectives. Your goals and objectives must align with those of the Teaching Enhancement Grant
program (to adapt and apply new pedagogy to existing courses). Indicate how this grant will
affect your professional development as an educator and how it will affect student learning in the
affected course(s).
3. Activities: Describe what you propose to do in jargon-free, non-technical language, but in
enough detail that reviewers can assess the feasibility of the project. In particular, indicate how
you plan to achieve your project goals and objectives by describing the specific products (e.g.,
assessment instruments, assignments, cases, problems) that may result from the work. Is what
you plan to develop for your course available elsewhere (e.g., case studies already published)? If
so, provide a rationale for why you need to develop your own materials exclusive of those
available.
4. Evaluation: This section should relate back to your stated goals and objectives. You must
describe a plan for assessing whether you have met your goals that utilizes some comparison of
teaching effectiveness of old vs new methods or past learning gains of students compared with
current learning gains achieved by new pedagogy. Evaluation should involve more than just
sampling student opinion of an activity, but include some demonstrable measure of effectiveness.
5. Dissemination: Describe your plan for sharing results of this work with others. It is
expected that you will communicate the products or learning gains from this project with others
in your department (serving as a mentor for similar projects there), with the University (e.g.,
through Synergia), and/or with the broader professional community through publications or
presentations at professional conferences. Please identify specific venues for dissemination,
rather than simply stating that your results will be presented at a conference.
6. Appendices
1. A Bibliography in two sections: 1) Works Cited in the Narrative portion of the
proposal; and 2) Relevant Literature integral to the project but not cited specifically in
the narrative. The latter category is intended to demonstrate applicant familiarity with
the current literature and readiness to engage in the project.
2. A Timetable for the intended work that lists the tasks and estimates of time allocated to
do them.
3. An up-to-date Curriculum Vitae (four page limit, 12 point font, can be single spaced)
that provides the following information:
 Name and contact information;
 Education (years and degrees);
 Academic appointments (years and titles);
 Grants and other honors or awards (last 10 years);
 Courses taught (last 10 years);
 Publications, especially those relevant to the current project (last 10 years);
 Other professional activity relevant to the project (e.g., consultancies, travel,
organizational leadership, collaborations).
4. Other supporting materials, such as syllabus for the course(s) affected by the proposed
project, conference agenda, agreements for collaborations with faculty mentors, etc.