Our Proposal

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Introduction
Goals and Outcomes
Background Rationale
Scope of Work
National Conversation
Impact of CIRTL Professional Development Program
Evaluation and Research
Prior Work and Institutional Capacity
Personnel
Management
Summary

I. Goals and Outcomes

The 5-year goals for CIRTL are to:

1. create effective tools and strategies for preparing graduates-through-faculty to use and improve best practices in STEM teaching and learning, with special attention to the needs of diverse student audiences;

2. create graduate-through-faculty learning communities that promote, support, and sustain improvement of teaching and learning practice;

3. develop and implement strategies for transferring the CIRTL Professional Development Program in Teaching and Learning between research universities;

4. produce cohorts of STEM graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are launching new faculty careers at diverse institutions, demonstrably succeeding in promoting STEM learning for all, and actively engaging in improving teaching and learning practice;

5. become the center of a national conversation about professional development in STEM higher education teaching and learning.

The long-range goal of CIRTL is to develop a national STEM faculty with the knowledge, experience, and inclination to forge successful professional careers that include implementing and advancing effective teaching and learning practice for diverse audiences.

CIRTL
1025 W. Johnson St.
Madison, WI 53706
ph.: 608.263.0630
fax: 608.265.0538