2016 Teaching and Learning Grants Program
PRACTICE STREAM APPLICATION
Complete this form clearly and fully, using the description of the adjudication criteria in the grants program materials on
the Taylor Institute website (www.ucalgary.ca/taylorinstitute/). When finished, please delete the non-bold information
and instructions, leave all headings and subheadings, and ensure that your entire application document is no longer
than 2,500 words. (With the non-bold information and instructions deleted, the form is approximately 190 words.)
Submit your application to tigrants@ucalgary.ca by February 8, 2016.
PROJECT TITLE:
Experiential Learning Special Topic Track? □ yes / □ no
Principal Grantholder’s Name:
Rank, Department/Unit, Faculty:
Email Address:
Campus Phone Number:
For all collaborators (if relevant), include the following:
Name:
Project Role: (Principal Investigator, Co-PI, co-applicant, RA, etc.)
Rank, Department/Unit, Faculty:
Email Address:
1. Abstract
Up to 250 words.
2. Goals for Understanding or Improving Student Learning
Explicitly explain how your project will help to better understand or improve student learning at UCalgary.
3. Context & Inquiry
Describe how your project emerges from your local teaching and learning experiences and challenges—as well as
from larger (e.g., disciplinary or national) contexts? What do you want to learn to respond to these contexts? (Please
state your inquiry as a question, and put it in bold font.) What professional learning will support your inquiry?
4. Grounded in Existing Scholarship
Demonstrate that your project is informed by existing scholarship 1 relevant to the teaching and learning issues central
to its inquiry and goals.
5. Methods Aligned with Inquiry and Goals
5a. Describe your plan for your project’s activities (including the professional learning you’ll pursue), clearly and
explicitly explaining how they help answer your inquiry (#3) and support your goals for understanding or improving
student learning (#2).
5b. (If Relevant) Explanation of Experiential Learning: If your project involves an experiential learning component,
describe it here, including your understanding of how it is experiential learning. What do you hope students will learn
from the experiential activity, and what do you hope to learn from it within the context of your project?
6. Potential for Impact
What questions will guide your reflections to assess your project’s success in responding to your inquiry and meeting
your goals? What will a successful completion of your project will look like in your teaching practice and in your
1
Educational or pedagogical research, the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), discipline-based educational
research (DBER), learning theory or science, etc.
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understanding or improvement of student learning? How do you hope your project will (upon completion) inform the
contexts described in #3? How will teaching and learning at the University of Calgary—beyond your own practice—
benefit from your project? How will its impact be sustained beyond the funding period?
7. Dissemination Of Results
Describe your plan for sharing your project’s results with relevant audiences at the University of Calgary—and beyond,
if relevant.2
8. Project Timeline
Clearly outline your monthly schedule and specific activities, including when you’ll seek ethics certification, if Research
Services determines such certification is necessary for your project.
9. Budget
Write an itemized list and rationale of each budgeted item below (9a and b). To avoid delays resulting from requests for
revisions (or disqualification), consult the budget guidelines for the Teaching and Learning Grants Program on the Taylor
Institute website.
9a. Itemized List
Description of Item/Activity
Cost
Total Budget for Project
Total Requested from Teaching & Learning Grants Program 3
.
9b. Budget Rationale
Clearly explain how each budgeted item or activity supports the project’s goals.
10. Bibliography
Include full citations for all sources cited in this application.
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To share locally, consider presentations, publications, workshops, and/or media at the Taylor Institute (contact TI
Administrative Coordinator Bernice Molloy), in your department (contact your Head), or in your Faculty (contact your
Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning). Additionally, the University of Calgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning
and Teaching occurs May each year. (Check the Taylor Institute website for details.) For ideas on disseminating your
results off campus, consult with the Taylor Institute’s Academic Director and/or its subject librarian.
3 If the overall project budget exceeds the amount requested from this Program, identify the additional funding sources
and which components of the project they will support.
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11. Signatures
11a. Signature(s) of Consent
If I am chosen as a grant recipient, I agree to follow the “Expectations of Grant Recipients” listed on the Taylor
Institute website (http://bit.ly/grant-expectations). Check the blank below:
I (we) the undersigned, agree. ____
Printed Name of Primary Grantholder
Signature of Primary Grantholder
Date
Printed Name of Co-Applicant
Signature of Co-Applicant
Date
Printed Name of Co-Applicant
Signature of Co-Applicant
Date
Printed Name of Co-Applicant
Signature of Co-Applicant
Copy and paste the above rows to include additional co-applicants.
Date
11b. Faculty Support Signatures
Signature of Department Head
Department
Date
Signature of Dean (or designate)
Faculty
Date
Complete this form clearly and fully, using the description of the adjudication criteria in the grants program materials on
the Taylor Institute website (www.ucalgary.ca/taylorinstitute/). When finished, please delete the non-bold information
and instructions, leave all headings and subheadings, and ensure that your entire application document is no longer
than 2,500 words. (With the non-bold information and instructions deleted, the form is approximately 190 words.)
Submit your application to tigrants@ucalgary.ca by February 8, 2016.
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