The recipients of the 2016 good teaching grant have been announced

The academic affairs committee of the University of Tartu has decided the recipients of the 2016 good teaching grant funded by the development fund. The programme manager of the European Union – Russia Studies and European Studies MA programmes and lecturer at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies Dr. Stefano Braghiroli was one of the recipients of the 2016 good teaching grant. The grant will allows him to conduct scientific research on his teaching.

According to Vice Rector for Academic Affairs Mart Noorma, 22 grant proposals for good teaching were received due date. All grant applicants submitted their teaching portfolios (analysis of the development of their teaching) and their action research project. On deciding the grant recipients, the candidates’ current activities in supporting their students and colleagues, developing their teaching, and the anticipated impact of their study on the quality of learning in the unit, in the faculty and in the university on the whole were taken into account.

Recipients of the grant were decided based on the application, feedback and discussion in the academic affairs committee. ”The academic affairs committee found that the overall level of applications was very good and all the applications qualified for the grant. Teaching-analyses were thorough and meaningful, in the action research projects the objectives of the planned change in teaching were pointed out and the expected results were elaborated,” said Noorma. Applications were reviewed and given feedback by the 2015 grant recipients and consultants from the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.

The first time the grants were given out was in 2015 when the academic affairs committee decided to fund three grants per faculty and a total of 12 grants from the fund for supporting teaching and studies. The good teaching grant is financial support for a member of the faculty for the systematic inquiry into one’s teaching practice and for disseminating their best practices (the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning).

All 24 grant recipients will meet from 27 to 28 June in a summer school also attended by representatives from the Teachers’ Academy of the University of Helsinki. You can hear more about the activities conducted to develop one’s teaching and results of the inquiries on 19 January 2017 at the conference “Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 2017”.

Additional information:

Mari Karm
Associate Professor of Higher Education Teaching, consultant
Phone: 737 6470
mari.karm@ut.ee


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Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies
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