Great Ideas for Teaching Contest

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Great Ideas for Teaching

The upcoming Winter Conference on Teaching (January 21, 2012) will feature a panel of Western's most creative TAs who will present their best teaching strategies, class activities, or other great ideas for teaching French, Engineering, History, Anatomy or any other discipline.

Presenters will be selected competitively and the top "Great Ideas" presenters will receive a gift certificate to the Bookstore at Western.  The winning presenters will represent great teaching ideas from different disciplines.

To submit a proposal, write a 2 page description of your teaching idea. The teaching idea may be a class activity, a creative assignment or any other strategy that enhances student learning in your class. The proposal needs to include:   

  1. The activity's learning goals,
  2. A brief list of key concepts,
  3. Description of the learning activity, including length of time & resources necessary for conducting the class activity,
  4. Your name, department, contact information, and the name and number of the course for which you designed the activity

Send proposals to the Teaching Support Centre/Graduate Student Programs via email at tatp@uwo.ca or by campus mail to Teaching Support Centre/Graduate Student Programs, Room 122, The D. B. Weldon Library.

DEADLINE: January 11, 2012.

PLEASE NOTE: Winners MUST be available on the afternoon of January 21 to present their "Great Idea" at the Winter Conference on Teaching.

Every year, the Teaching Support Centre runs a contest entitled Great Ideas for Teaching. Graduate students enter the contest by submitting their most creative and original ideas for teaching. The winners of the Great Ideas of Teaching then present their ideas to their peers at the Winter Conference on Teaching.

Here are some of our past submissions:

2012

Acting out Algorithms - A "hands-on" approach to teaching Computer Science (pdf) - Jenna Butler

Stimulating Student Learning in Breadth Courses (pdf) - Chelsea Hicks

Photo-Reflection Assignments (pdf) - Beth Hundey

2011

Winners and Runners-up (pdf)

2010

Virtual Virtuality (pdf) - Jennifer Martin

The Question Game (pdf) - Angel Petropanagos

Post-it Empowered (pdf) - Megan Popovic

2009

The Medium is Still the Message: Generation Text Meets Marshall McLuhan (pdf) - Mike Arntfield

Fossil Analogies: Correlating Primate Behaviour and Morphology (pdf) - Zoe Morris

Art Theory Review Pie (pdf) - Helen Parkinson

2008

The World Café Comes to Western (pdf)– Megan Popovic

Rethinking Multi-Media (pdf) – Mike Arntfield

“Webmindful(l)”: Building Web Resource Evaluation Skills (pdf) – Elan Paulson

2007

The Traveling Discussion (pdf) – Suzanne Fox

Vocabulary Relay Race (pdf) - Lauren Keys