Teaching Scholar-in-Residence
The Center for Integrated Professional Development and the Cross Endowed Chair for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning are pleased to announce a call for proposals for a Teaching Scholar-in-Residence for the summer of 2024. The Teaching Scholar-in-Residence program aims to positively influence student success at Illinois State University and contribute to the conversation regarding intellectual inquiry around student teaching and learning.
About the Program
For 2024, one Teaching Scholar will be named to provide professional development aligned with the Framework for Inclusive Teaching Excellence (FITE). Topics can be related to:
Student Success
Support for the “whole student” that includes factors such as engagement in the learning process while managing competing demands, sense of belongingness in the campus community, and progress toward completion of their degree that enables them to pursue their career or life goals.
Student Engagement
The degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion that students show when they are learning or being taught, which extends to the level of motivation they have to learn and progress in their education.
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access
Teaching practices that respect and value individual and social/group differences; promote active, intentional, and ongoing engagement with diversity to increase understanding of the complex ways individuals interact with systems and institutions; and create equal access to educational opportunities for historically underserved populations.
Duration, Timing, and Funding
The Teaching Scholar will be in residence at the Center during May and June, where they will serve as an educational developer alongside Center staff, designing and implementing a three-day “deep dive” workshop on their selected topic as part of Summer Institute. Teaching Scholars will receive a $3,000 stipend upon the successful completion their program (by June 30, 2024).
Eligibility
The program is open to all tenured, tenure-track, non-tenure faculty members, and staff with instructional duties at Illinois State. Priority will be given to full-time employees or those with confirmed part-time appointments in Spring 2024 and Fall 2024. Graduate teaching assistants are not eligible for this program.
Deadline
Applications are due by 4 p.m. on Monday, March 25, 2024. Decisions will be announced by Monday, April 1, 2024.
Application Process
Prospective Teaching Scholars will be asked to address the following in their applications:
- Identify your focus area: student success, student engagement, or diversity, equity, inclusion, and access.
- Describe the specific campus issue, program, pedagogical need, or endeavor that this residency will be addressing.
- Describe how your residency topic aligns with one or more FITE dimensions.
- If applicable, describe how your topic relates to the multiple ways and modalities that instructors are being asked to teach — in-person, online, or hybrid.
- Describe the current research, theory, or effective teaching practices that serve as the starting place for your scholarship.
- Describe the methods you might explore to learn more about your topic in conjunction with the Center and Cross Chair mentorship.
- Describe the three-day workshop you’d like to facilitate, including two or three draft learning objectives and what you hope your participants will take away from the experience.
Questions?
Please email ProDev@ilstu.edu