AAPT Grant 2016
AAPT
Grant for Innovations in Teaching
Application Deadline August 31, 2016
Description: The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) is offering competitive small grants ranging from $250-$1000 to support the implementation of projects involving innovations or modifications to one’s teaching. Preference will be given to those projects that have a broad appeal. Grant applications should be sure to specify the aim of the project, its learning goals, your criteria of success, and your proposed timeline. Grant recipients can choose either to do a one-semester project or a longer-term project, as long as the implementation of the project/collection of results falls within the timeframe of Spring 2017-Spring 2018. We hope that grant recipients will be amenable to the public dissemination of the projects in some form after completion. Grant recipients are required to submit a final project report due after the completion of the project, which will be posted on our AAPT website. This final report should include information about the results of the project, including qualitative or quantitative data if relevant.
Eligibility: Open to any instructor teaching at the college-level: full-time, part-time, adjuncts, and grad students are all welcome. Must be a current AAPT member. For further information about the American Association of Philosophy Teachers, please visit: https://philosophyteachers.org/.
To join the AAPT, please visit: https://www.pdcnet.org/aapt/American-Association-of-Philosophy-Teachers-(AAPT)
Application Requirements:
(1) Project description narrative of approximately 500-1000 words that addresses the following elements (please format it for blind review):
- Overall description of the project
- Learning goals the project addresses & how it addresses them
- Whether the person has undertaken any previous work in this area, such as trying something like this on a smaller scale, and if so, what the results were
- Timeline for project (recipients can choose either to do a one-semester project or a longer-term project, as long as it falls within the timeframe of Spring 2017-Spring 2018)
- Criteria of success
- How the project will be evaluated
- Dissemination plan for results (how the person will share what he/she has learned, such as at the AAPT or other regional or local venues)
- Budget: Specific amount requested with an estimated list of expenses (amount can include salary for the recipient). Please include whether one is getting any funding from other sources.
(2) Current curriculum vitae, including contact information of one reference
Mail your completed application materials as attachment with “AAPT Grant” in the subject line to: grants@philosophyteachers.org. Applications must be received by August 31, 2016.
The AAPT Awards committee will review applications.
- Winners will be notified by September 30, 2016.
- Final Report is due at the completion of one’s project, but no later than the end of June 2018.
Application deadline: August 31, 2016.
