Faculty Center
Frances S. Johnson Junior Faculty Innovative Teaching Award
$850 Total Award ($350 Cash + $500 Travel)
Application Deadline: July 31, 2013
The Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce the ninth annual Junior Faculty Innovative Teaching Award, now renamed in honor of Frances S. Johnson, former director of the Faculty Center who passed away in 2008.
As an institution dedicated to excellence in teaching and learning, Rowan University will honor one or two junior faculty who demonstrate innovative and meaningful teaching that promotes student learning.
Any students, faculty, staff, and administrators wishing to encourage a junior faculty member to apply should contact that person directly. No nomination process is required.
Eligibility
Junior faculty includes those tenure-track faculty members who have not received tenure by July 31, 2013. (Those whose tenure officially begins September 1, 2013 are not eligible.)
Criteria
The criteria for selection include:
- Innovative teaching methodologies, practices or approaches (content delivery, student involvement, pedagogical approaches, etc.)
- Demonstrated understanding of the impact this teaching has on students. That is, provide evidence of impact the innovative teaching has on students
“Innovative teaching” may involve a particular unit, procedure, course design, use of technology, etc.
Application Process
1) Applicants are required to submit the application form (see below) and a description of no more than a 1500-word of the innovative teaching practice that:
- Discusses context for the teaching methodology and its implementation
- Explains why this technique is innovative
- Analyzes its impact on students
Limited supplemental documents (classroom materials, appropriate student comments that support the innovation, scholarly works you've written about this innovation, etc.) may also be included beyond the 1500-word limit.
2) Send applications electronically to Elaine Mann (manne@rowan.edu) in the Faculty Center, James Hall.
3) Contact Sanford Tweedie for more information or with additional questions at tweedie@rowan.edu.
Review Process
Former award winners will review applications. The award will be announced at the New Faculty Orientation in August.
*Travel money must be used by June 30, 2014
Frances S. Johnson Junior Faculty Innovative Teaching Award
Application Form
Application Deadline: July 31, 2013
Name:
Department:
Department phone number:
Home phone number:
Email:
Year hired:
In submitting this application, I are verifying that I have not have received tenure at Rowan or any other university by July 31, 2013.
In no more than 1500 words and using the following subheadings, describe your fulfillment of the criteria for the Junior Faculty Innovative Teaching Award:
Context for the teaching methodology and its implementation
Why this technique is innovative
Evidence of impact on students
Limited supplemantal documents (classroom materials, appropriate student comments that support the innovation, scholarly works you've written about this innovation, etc.) Can exceed 1500-word limit.
*Travel money must be used by June 30, 2014.
