With these grants, we want to promote the most distinguished ideas for teaching and learning and showcase that excellence in a way that benefits the entire school community. To do this, we must invest in our faculty providing them with the resources to pursue highly customized, professional research and development opportunities. These grants will support them as they innovate their instructional practices and curriculum with the goal to further enhance the VCHS student experience.
The Faculty Innovation Grant work will be highly creative and original, innovate the teaching and student learning experience, and focus on the following areas:
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Expertise: Improve faculty knowledge and skills in a particular subject matter
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Engagement: Better engage students in the classroom context
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Innovation: Demonstrate innovation in teaching, particularly in ways that provide students with knowledge and skills that directly enhance their career paths.
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Christian Faith Integration: Attention to deepening the integration of Christian faith with teaching and in what students learn
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Sustainability: Create sustainable and replicable solutions for VCHS faculty and students, as well as other schools, so that they benefit over many years
The scope of grant funding could address any of the following or much more:
- New type of applied learning experience outside the classroom
- New use of technology to enhance student learning, including experimental or unusual instructional equipment
- New program to increase student engagement
- New initiative to enhance the level of faculty-student collaboration on research
- New online or blended learning course
- Student and faculty visits to field sites, industrial facilities, and cultural centers
- Design new courses or substantially redesign existing courses
On behalf of the VCHS faculty, thank you Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation for making all of this possible!
Steve O'Neil
Head of School
