2016 Teaching and Learning Grants Program
LESSON STUDY 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:
Duration: □ 1 year / □ 2 years
Experiential Learning Special Topic Track? □ yes / □ no
Principal Grantholder’s Name:
Rank, Department/Unit, Faculty:
Email Address:
Campus Phone Number:
For all team members, include the following:
Name:
Rank, Department/Unit, Faculty:
Email Address:
1. Abstract
Up to 250 words.
2. Goals for Understanding or Improving Student Learning
Explicitly explain how your team’s project will help to better understand or improve student learning at UCalgary.
3. Context & Inquiry
Describe how your project emerges from the team’s local teaching and learning experiences and challenges—as well
as from larger (e.g., disciplinary or national) contexts? After reflecting on these contexts, what has your team
identified as the significant learning issue that’s most relevant to explore, and what does the team want to know
about it? (Please state your inquiry as a question, and put it in bold font.)
4. Grounded in Existing Scholarship
Demonstrate that the project is informed by existing scholarship1 relevant to the teaching and learning issues central
to its inquiry and goals.
5. The (Potential) Lesson
5a. Although the team will later design and submit a detailed lesson2 that aligns with the project’s goals (#2) and
significant learning issue (#3), what has the team identified as potential student learning activities that would provide
relevant insights?
5b. (If Relevant) Explanation of Experiential Learning: If your team’s project involves an experiential learning
component, describe it here, including your understanding of how it is experiential learning. What does your team
hope students will learn from the experiential activity, and what does your team hope to learn from it within the
context of this project?
6. Potential for Impact
1
Educational or pedagogical research, the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), discipline-based educational
research (DBER), learning theory or science, etc.
2
The Academic Director of the Taylor Institute is available to consult with your team to develop that detailed lesson.
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What will a successful completion of this project look like in responding to the team’s inquiry and goals, and in its
understanding or improvement of student learning? How does your team hope this project will (upon completion)
informs the contexts described in #3 above? How will teaching and learning at the University of Calgary—other
courses, educators, and contexts—benefit from your project’s activities, lesson, instruments, or findings? How will its
impact be sustained beyond the funding period?
7. Dissemination Of Results
Describe your team’s plan for sharing the project’s results with relevant audiences at the University of Calgary—and
beyond (optional, recommended).3
8. Project Timeline
Clearly outline your team’s 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 (Add more rows as necessary. For two-year projects, copy and paste the table below for the second
year.)
Description of Item/Activity (Year 1)
Cost
Total Budget for Project
Total Requested from Teaching & Learning Grants Program4
.
.
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.
11. Signatures
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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.
4 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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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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