Recipients of grants from the FCTL have undergone a rigorous and competitive application
process, which includes proposal submission and a blind peer review. Recipients will
be implementing their proposed Scholarship of Teaching and Learning over the next
year with presentations of their scholarship to be completed within the next two years.
FCTL Teaching & Learning Grant Recipients
College of Education
The Impact of Developing Teacher Inquiry Through a Community of Practice
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From Classroom to Career: Bridging Pre-Service and In-Service Teaching
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McQueary College of Health & Human Services
Leadership and Professional Development Experience for Students: A Domestic Education
Abroad Project
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Using DISC Profiling to Enhance Student Learning: A SoTL Technique
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Previous Award Winners
Proposal to Increase Knowledge, Skill, and Confidence with GPS Technology Among Archaeology
Students - By Elizabeth Sobel & Scott Worman
Management Accounting: Experiential Learning Strategies for Engagement, Recruiting,
and Retention -By Kim Church & Kristen Thornton
Increasing Opportunities for Undergraduate Research Experience Using a Prosocial Approach - By Dana Paliunas, Jordan Belisle, & Breanna Lee
Evaluating High-Impact Teaching Practices in Geography: The Tennessee Refugee Game - By Email Frazier
Impact of 3D Printing on Experiential Learning of Master's Level Occupational Therapy
Students - By Naomi Corro & Sapna Chokraborty
Assessing the Development of Complex Cultural Competence Among Students and its Relationship
to Diversity/Global Learning as a High-Impact Practice - By Nicole West
Curriculum Innovation Award Recipients
Curriculum Innovation Grants provide funding of up to $4,000 to improve student learning
through high-impact (active learning) practices or inclusive teaching that emphasizes
diversity and multicultural perspectives. Curriculum Innovation Awards are awarded
through a competitive application process.
Enhancing the Specialized Mathematics Skills of Teacher Candidates in the Blindness
and Low Vision Program - By Paul Ajuwon
3D Printed Skins to Enhance Confidence of Skin Lesion Removal by Student Nurse Practitioners - By Ronda Entlicher-Stewart
Creating Virtual Reality Worldscapes for Training Geologists - By Matthew McKay & Damon Bassett
Intro to Financial Accounting (ACC 201) Innovation and Student Engagement Initiative - By Julie Ravenscraft & Kyle Goodin
Center for Ozark Poverty Research, Virtual Reality Poverty Immersion: A Unique Out-of-the-Classroom
Experience - By Marnie Watson, Erin Kenny, and Christina Ryder
Musculoskeletal Equipment Enhanced Learning -By Andrew Ward
Curriculum Innovation Award Recipients
Mental Helath First Aid -By Brandon Aigner & Stacy Finley
Creating VR Content for Immersive Geoscience Courses - By Matt Mckay
Bringing Novel Experiences and Experiments into Experimental Economics - By Benjamin Beranek
Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Elementary Education - By A. Minor Baker & Chloe Bolyard
Seeking Inclusive Excellence Through Indigenous Histories of the Americas - By John Gram & Julia Troche
Food Photography, Food Styling, and Set Design - By Deborah Piland
Using a Common Reading Across an Elementary Education Graduate Program: Promoting
Equitable Practices to Transform Teachers' Classroom and School Communities - By Mandy Benedict-Chambers
Enhancement of Acute Airway Management and EndoTracheal Intubation Skills in Physician
Assistant Students - Nathan Miracle
Integrating Trauma Informed care into the Nursing Curriculum to Meet the Needs of
a Trauma-Impacted World - By Cindi Aurentz, Stephanie Nikbakht, Melissa Penkalski, Jeanie Skibiski, and Diane
Smith
Curriculum Innovation Award Recipients
Technological Solutions for Improved Inclusion and Online Experiences for Field Trips
and Field-Based Courses in Geoscience - By Damon Bassett
Enhancing Students' Classroom Experience with Innovative Technology - By Melissa Penkalski, Shelley Carter, & Ronda Entlicher-Stewart
E-Portfolios and Diversity Statements to Advance Diverse Perspectives and Encourage
High-Impact Practices in the Writing Classroom - By Lori Rogers & Judy Tarbox
Fostering Social Justice Practices in Spanish Upper-Level Courses - By Vanessa Rodriguez de la Vega
Incorporating Anti-Racism into Undergraduate Methods and Statistics Courses in the
Social Sciences - By Kyler Sherman-Wilkins
Curriculum Innovation Award Recipients
Teaching Diagnostic Assessment Procedures via ZOOM Online Format to a Diverse Student
Population - By Tamara Arthaud
Simulated Patient Experience to Supplement Skill Development - By Christian McCall & Tona Hetzler
Enhanced Learning: Flipping Online Social Work Practice Courses - By Amanda Keys & Michele Brown
Developing Cultural Competence in Technical and Professional Writing - By Leslie Seawright
Strengthening the Curriculum to Support the Online Program in Blindness and Low Vision
- By Paul Ajuwon
High-Impact Learning in Ancient History Instruction - By Julia Troche
Student Success and Learning Foundation Development in a Large-Scale Introductory
Biomedical Sciences Course - By Joseph Williams
