Faculty and Staff: Curriculum and Teaching

Teaching and Course Consultation

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) provides teaching consultation services and resources to individual faculty, departments, and programs on the following:

  • Course and curriculum design
  • Design and administration of mid-term evaluations
  • Interpretation of student end-of-course evaluations
  • Effective pedagogy
  • Technology in teaching
  • Working with teaching assistants
  • Conferences and speakers on teaching
  • Teaching portfolios

Special, additional assistance is available to new and junior faculty who may have questions about the following:

  • Stanford students
  • Teaching on the quarter system
  • Designing courses for the first time
  • Technology in teaching

 

Tutoring & Academic Support

Faculty may refer students to Tutoring & Academic Support for individual consultations and assistance. Subject Tutors help students develop the problem-solving and analytical skills needed to understand, synthesize, or apply complex material. Oral Communication Tutors help students hone their oral presentation skills. Tutoring is used by students in all years and at all levels of understanding. Tutoring in one-on-one sessions is available by appointment with tutors in upper division courses in these and other areas. All tutoring is free of charge. Students may also be referred to CTL's Academic Skills Coach who will help them develop in time management, note-taking, test preparation, overcoming procrastination, reading comprehension, and deep transformative learning.

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Teaching Assistant Development

CTL offers assistance to programs, departments, and faculty members about strategies for working effectively with TAs and developing graduate students as teachers. Services include individual consultations, general and customized workshops, assistance in designing TA training sessions, technology for TA training and archives, and $2500 grants to support new department efforts to train TAs. Selected TAs can receive training to become teaching consultants to their peers.

Hume Writing Center

The Stanford Hume Writing Center is dedicated to helping Stanford writers develop rich and varied capacities in all aspects of writing and communication. Faculty may refer students to the Writing Center for individual consultations and assistance. The Writing Center provides pedagogy consulting for individual faculty and offers workshops on special topics upon request.

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Hoagland Award Fund for Innovations in Undergraduate Teaching

Stanford joined long-time and dedicated alumni Laurie ('58) and Gay ('59) Hoagland in redesignating the Hoagland Prize as the Hoagland Award Fund for Innovations in Undergraduate Teaching.  The award reflects the Hoagland's desire to contribute to enhanced student learning and energizing teaching experiences for faculty.  The Award Fund addresses an urgent and felt need of the faculty for a source of funds specifically earmarked for pedagogical innovation.

Awarded to individuals or teams, three to four grants are given each year in the $20,000 to $30,000 range. The possibility exists of occasional $50,000 grants being awarded as well for particularly ambitious, worthy projects.

Further Resources:

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Cox Medal for Faculty Excellence

The Cox award was established in memory of Allan Cox, a former Professor of Geophysics and Dean of the School of Earth Sciences. In the late 1970s and early 1980s Allan Cox described the virtues of the research programs at MIT and stimulated Stanford faculty to provide such opportunities to its undergraduates, and provided the energy which led to increased funding and support for faculty-student collaboration in research. Allan Cox was world renowned as the co-discoverer of magnetic field reversals, and was also a strong advocate of student participation in individual scholarship.

Criteria: The Cox medal is awarded to a faculty person who has established a record of excellence in directing undergraduate research over a number of years. It may also go to a faculty member who has done an especially outstanding job with just one or two undergraduates whose work is unusually superior.

Award Type: A bronze medal and cash award

Further information:

  • Letters of nomination should be sent to Dean Eyre, Student Services Specialist / Research, 114C Sweet Hall, MC 3085, or via e-mail to deaneyre@stanford.edu, by Friday, April 25, 2008.
  • http://teachawards.stanford.edu for online submissions
  • The medal will be presented at the Firestone/Golden Medal Award Ceremony on Saturday, June 14.
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Curriculum Development Grants

The Curriculum Grant program provides modest one-time support for curriculum development projects. The goal is to support developing new courses and modification of existing courses that expand undergraduates’ opportunities for intellectual excitement and academic rigor. Grant support ranges from $500 to $5,000 for curricular innovation and up to $8,000 for a more substantial faculty project.

Further Resources:

  • VPUE Curriculum Development Grants Program (PDF)
  • The Center for Teaching and Learning staff are available to share their expertise in any phase of VPUE Curriculum Development Grants proposal preparation. Please contact CTL Director Michele Marincovich for further information at marin@stanford.edu or 723-2208.
  • The Center for Teaching and Learning has course development funds available for projects that fall outside the VPUE Curriculum Grant Program. Please contact CTL Director Michele Marincovich for further information at marin@stanford.edu or 723-2208.

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