Provost Award for Pedagogical Innovation

This award recognizes full-time faculty at Drexel who have implemented outstanding innovations in teaching and learning. Pedagogical innovation refers to the development of new ways of teaching, delivering curricula, interdisciplinary methods, or interfacing with the community or the workforce to create and implement novel courses and learning experiences. Pedagogical innovation can also refer to the creative implementation of effective, inclusive, and student-centered teaching processes regardless of whether these approaches are new.

Criteria

The Provost Award for Pedagogical Innovation is presented to a full-time faculty member at Drexel University who has implemented outstanding innovations in teaching and learning.

Nomination Package

• A copy of the candidate's curriculum vitae
• A statement written by the candidate (2-5 pages) providing a description of the innovation(s) and why the innovation was developed (i.e., the instructional challenges or opportunities being addressed by the innovation; a pedagogical rationale for the innovation(s))
• Demonstrated positive impact (i.e., clearly assessed by evidence) on student learning and/or engagement for diverse students, including (where appropriate) reference to scholarship on effective and inclusive teaching or research-based methods shown to improve student learning or engagement
• Two letters of support one from a colleague, department head, or dean and one from a student benefiting from the pedagogical innovation.
• Additional items to be submitted in appendices may include an annotated syllabus or lesson plan illustrating the pedagogical innovation, other specialized teaching materials, documentation from faculty peer evaluations/classroom observations and other letters/statements of support, including from students

Submission

Faculty members who are interested in submitting a proposal should prepare their application in accordance with the guidelines set forth in the Drexel University Funding Portal, for each competition respectively.