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OCTOBER 29, 1991

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

FALL GRANT APPLICATION DEADLINE

NOVEMBER 5, 1991

Research grants provide funding for special research and
professional development projects. Grants up to $1000 each
will be made to assist field studies, pure research in issues
applicable to teaching at this college, applied research,
statistical studies, marketing studies, studies of new techniques
and technologies, and studies in assessment. These grants are
not intended primarily to produce classroom materials or to
develop new teaching modules, although some products of the
work may be used within existing or new courses or services.

Conference grants assist faculty with their travel and related
expenses to attend conferences related to their instructional
assignment or discipline. Making presentations and/or
participating in a panel or planning committee is deemed more
valuable than simply attending a conference.

The purpose of these grants is to fund individual professional
development activities which fall outside the regular
articulation process, normal client surveys, ongoing
departmental activities, annual meetings, student gatherings
with faculty sponsors, or student field trips. In some cases,
individual department budgets and/or Divisional budgets
contain monies for activities excluded from the Faculty
Development grants.

Grants are awarded through an adjudication process of the
Faculty Development Committee three times a year: fall,
spring, and early summer. As the available funds are spread
among as many people as possible, the Committee can rarely
allocate more that partial funds to any distant travel. To help
ensure equitable allocation of funds, the Committee evaluates
each eligible request against four criteria. In order of priority,
these are:

-degree of personal professional growth to the individual;

-contribution to the discipline/career/vocational area;

-contribution to the College’s image;

-contribution to classroom effectiveness.

Grants are available to full-time and part-time faculty who:
-have a minimum of two years service;
-are working at least four sections in the year of the
request;
-have not received a grant from the Committee within the
last twelve months.

It should be noted that funds may be available through
respective departments and Deans.

Applications for this adjudication round should be sent to the
Faculty Development Committee, c/o Ruth D’Hollander.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR ASIAN OVERSEAS

STUDY GRANTS
The Canada-ASEAN Centre Academic Travel Grant Fund assists
Canadian scholars to pursue research and academic activities. Its
objectives are:
-to strengthen the capability of Canadian educators to teach
about the ASEAN region by increasing their knowledge and
understanding of the region;
-to provide opportunities for Canadian scholars to improve
their ASEAN language skills;
-to expand mutual understanding through exchanges in
workshops or conferences, and the building of personal
contacts;
-to develop and make available improved curriculum and
research material on the ASEAN region; and
-to support new initiatives in fields of study relevant to the
ASEAN region.

For further information, contact Jon Jessiman, Associate Dean,
Student and Instructional Services, at Local 2975 or by E-Mail.

REVITALIZE (OR BUILD) YOUR

INSTRUCTIONAL SKILLS

Instructional Skills Workshops (ISW) help improve the
instructional skills of both new and experienced instructors. The
ISW is an intensive twenty-four hour workshop conducted by
college instructors for college instructors. Normally conducted in
one non-stop session - woops!- over four six-hour sessions, each
workshop involves five or six participants.

Relevant to instructors in all disciplines, the Instructional Skills
Workshops focus on establishing instructional objectives; preparing
practical lesson plans; developing good questioning techniques;
ensuring student involvement in learning; and designing pre- and
post-assessment strategies.

During the workshop, each instructor designs and conducts three
ten-minute “mini-lessons", receives oral, written and video
feedback on the conduct of each lesson, and sets new personal
performance objectives at the end of each design-instruction-
feedback cycle. This micro-teaching model helps each participating
instructor build on knowledge and experience already acquired and
provides a supportive environment to practise innovative teaching
techniques.

Two series of workshops are in the planning stages here at the
College: one to be held either after final exams before the
Christmas break or during the Registration period in January; the
other to be held next May.

For more information, contact: Ruth D’Hollander, Faculty
Development Liaison, Local 2919.