Teaching and Learning Grants
Teaching and Learning Grants
Recognizing teaching excellence is one of the key tenets of the Office of Teaching and Learning. To reach that goal, we can help structure your application for several teaching and learning grants and awards.
Here are some Grants and Awards related to Teaching and Learning offered by our School, University, as well as national competitions. Consider them as laddering system of recognition of your scholarship of teaching and learning. Click on any of the sections below for more information. Our next call for proposals will be during the 2024-25 academic year and more information will be available at that time.
As you consider applying for, or adjudicating, awards and grants whether with the Werklund School of Education, the University of Calgary or from an external entity, we encourage you to consider the guidelines that the university has drafted to acknowledge and foster greater equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility in our award and grant processes.
Teaching and Learning Support Grant
The aim of this funding is to support academic staff in advancing teaching and learning through grants to support one of the following types of initiatives. Please note that applicants must have a continuous appointment and be listed as the Principal Investigator on the grant application (for Option 1) and must also be the instructor of record for Option 2. Contract faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students are eligible to be co-applicants or collaborators. Priority is given to applicants who have not received this grant recently. The most recent round of grants is closed in November 2024. We will have our next round of grants in Spring 2025.
Option 1 - Research in Teaching and Learning: This grant is intended to provide seed funding to support academic staff as they prepare to apply for further grants for research into teaching and learning. This grant could be utilized to help conceptualize or develop an idea for a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Project (e.g., hire an RA to help prepare a grant package, methodology, research instruments, etc. for a University of Calgary teaching and learning project, or other external research grant).
Option 2 - Teaching or Course Improvements: This grant is intended to support academic staff improve instruction or course design. This grant could be utilized to form a teaching square (community of practice) prepare innovative digital content (e.g., hire an RA to help prepare content for using a flipped learning approach to a course, to design interactive synchronous sessions, asynchronous content, digital assessments, multi-media case studies, podcasts, simulations, digital annotation, hybrid learning, co-teaching activities, experiential learning, open educational practices, social innovation, flexible and engaging teaching and learning practices, and forging better connections to institutional strategies and priorities, etc.); or undertake an examination of current course content and practices to determine ways to integrate Indigenous ways of knowing and increase aspects of equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility into a course or program.
2024
Amy Burns - EDUC 427 Development phase 2
Kelly Hicks - How does quality of supervision within the Centre for Wellbeing in Education compare to quality of supervision in other training clinics and community placements?
Theodora Kapoyannis and Astrid Kendrick - Theory to practice connections: A dialogue with school partners
Soroush Sabbaghan, Leeanne Morrow and Greg Kessler - Exploring the intersection of generative AI, ethics and academic integrity: A collaborative workshop for enhancing teaching and learning practices
Shellyann Scott and Kashif Raza - Nuts and bolts of educational policy: Early readings for educational leaders
2023
Amy Burns - Development and implementation of new technology in EDUC 427
Sharon Friesen - International investigation of TPACK: Assessing technology integration in teacher education programs in Alberta
Michele Jacobsen - Students as partners: leverage graduate student perspectives to expand supervisory development
Theodora Kapoyannis - Revision of field experience course shell
Astrid Kendrick - Wellbeing walks to build educator workplace wellbeing
Sandra Manyfeathers - Respecting Elder Knowledge in Niitsitapii Ihtsitapii'patapiio'p
Hetty Roessingh - Teaching handwriting to young children
David Scott - Revisioning EDUC 525 Ethics and Law in Education
Erin Spring - Indigenous storytelling through digital media
2022
Roswita Dressler - ELL case studies for EDUC 568
Theodora Kapoyannis and Astrid Kendrick - The first year teacher: Voices from the field
Patricia Danyluk - Understanding student and community partner experiences with the online delivery of the community engagement certificate - An ethical practice
Elisa-Lacerda Vandenborn - Community engagement: An ethical practice
Stephen MacGregor - Problem-based learning to connect educational research and practice with preservice teachers
Jennifer Markides and Pamela Roach - Walking together: A faculty book club to decolonize equity
Shelly Russell-Mayhew - Update for the podclass: Conversations on school health lecture series for EDUC 551
Soroush Sabbaghan - Developing an AI-powered persona-generating program for student researchers
2021
Aubrey Hanson and Erin Spring - Books to build on: Indigenous literatures for learning
Emma Climie and Kathleen Hughes - Werklund School of Education teaching and learning: Certificate in child and youth development
Hanna Duffy - Advanced psychological assessment: Bridging theory and practice
Ling Jin - What contribute to effective cross-cultural clinical supervision: The supervisor’s perspective of cross-cultural supervision
Nadia Delanoy - Developing a digital assessment toolbox
Roswita Dressler - Critical literacy research and practice in the Canadian education landscape
Shelly Russell-Mayhew - Update for the podclass: Conversations on school health lecture series for EDUC 551
Michelle Kilborn - Fostering student-centered learning with teaching games for understanding approach in physical education
2020
Theodora Kapoyannis and Astrid Kendrick - Educator compassion fatigue and burn-out
Meadow Schroeder - Deferred work term innovation for EDPS students
Ronna Mosher - Development of digital learning materials - EDER 619
Verena Roberts - Digital tools for EDER 679.69
Jaime Fiddler - Connecting research to practice conference
2019
Man-Wai Chu - Mutualistic course delivery formats: Evaluation of resources designed for online and face-to-face courses
Roswita Dressler - Building communities of practice through Lego Serious Play: Pre-sojourn preparation for Teaching Across Borders country groups
Anusha Kassan - Implementation of social justice pedagogy in counselling psychology at the University of Calgary: Attending to student voices
Ronna Mosher and Lori Pamplin - Leadership scholarship and certification into signature pedagogies
Miwa Takeuchi - Envisioning equitable practices in early childhood education
2018
Armando Paulino Preciado Babb - Enhancing prospective mathematics teachers: Learning through modelling
Amy Burns - Leading with heart: Development of an authentic interdisciplinary graduate program
Soroush Sabbaghan - Exploring the potential of a diagnostic language assessment too: Supporting curricular renewal with learning profiles
Rahat Zaidi - Fostering transcultural competencies using identity texts with faculty and graduate students
Xu Zhao - How to train counselling students to think developmentally and critically
2017
Barbara Brown - Student learning in synchronous online classes
Amy Burns - Online educational development for field experience instructors: A design study
Man-Wai Chu - Validating authentic assessments: Ensuring individualized program planning knowledge and skills in pre-service teachers
Sarah Eaton - Investigating academic integrity in the Werklund School of Education: Process, policy, and perceptions
2016
Eugene Kowch - Building the capacity of Werklund School of Education learners to self-organize individual and group project-based learning in leadership M.Ed distance education courses
2015
Roswita Dressler - Investigation of students' receptivity and use of formative feedback in online graduate research courses
Yvonne Poitras Pratt - Moving toward critical service learning as a signature pedagogy in aboriginal communities: Why good intentions are not enough
Shelly Russell-Mayhew - Transforming teacher preparation: Educational praxis for well being
Meadow Schroeder - Using dynamic "Choose Your Own Adventure" cases to instruct and assess clinical reasoning skills
2014
Michelle Drefs - From theory to practice: Use of the case study method in school psychology coursework to strengthen clinical reasoning
Dianne Gereluk - Building a robust online teacher education program
Anusha Kassan - Developing community portfolios as a tool to enhance multicultural counselling competencies
Beaumie Kim - Creating a playful culture of learning with gameful assessment: Avatars, experience points and boss battles in a graduate course
Darren Lund - Enhancement of the service-learning program for pre-service teachers
2013
Nancy Arthur - Teaching multicultural counselling competencies through cultural interviews
Sylvie Roy - Peer collaboration to enhance students’ writing skills
The Taylor Institute Teaching and Learning Grants and Scholars Applications are available annually. The current call for proposals is open until January 15, 2025 and guidelines for the grant application are available at the Taylor Institute website.
Applications for grants are now submitted through the following page which you can log into via SSO with your UCID. Guidance on how to use the Synto portal for submitting your research grant application is available.
The Werklund Office of Teaching and Learning can provide support with grant applications, including copy editing. For review and required signatures, send to tandl@ucalgary.ca with the subject line 'Taylor Institute grant application."