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"Seed Money": UDI Project Announces Faculty Incentive Grant Award Recipients

Winter is a good time to plan for harvest, even at the UDI project. In January 2002, the Project made incentive grants available to faculty members at UDI partner schools to provide "seed money" for the development of innovative instructional products. Grant applications were reviewed by a team of UDI project staff using specific selection criteria pertaining to the proposed application of UDI Principles, the potential of the project outcomes to be published on Facultyware, and the overall quality and innovation reflected in the proposed activities.

 
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Seven outstanding projects involving individuals and faculty teams were awarded funding (see chart below). These funded projects are now underway and will be completed by June 30, 2002. The projects explore the application of the Principles of UDI in a variety of academic disciplines and classroom settings. Projects represent different uses of the Principles including planning classroom environments, revising existing delivery of instruction to be more inclusive, and expanding means of assessing student learning.

Each project will result in an instructional product to be submitted for review and possible publication on the Facultyware web site. Several of the projects will be presented by the faculty authors at the upcoming Postsecondary LD Training Institute (see UDI Updates for more information about the Institute). We anticipate the harvest from this "seed money" and the carefully tended "spring growth" of these innovative projects may be a "crop" of instructional products for everyone to benefit from on the Facultyware website. Congratulations once again to these outstanding grant recipients!
Grant Recipient Institution Department Project Title Project Description
Barbara Paskov Manchester Community College Mathematics Alternative Methods of Demonstrating Knowledge in a Math Class An exploration of alternatives to traditional oral presentations; other methods that demonstrate learning while meeting the needs of diverse learners.
Donna McCormac-Condon and James M. Gentile Manchester Community College English Module/Product Using Color Coding as an Organizational Strategy An application of organizational strategies to writing tasks, oral presentations, and reading assignments.
Gail Hammond Manchester Community College English Student Self-Assessment and Reflection on Learning Styles An application of a portfolio development method, used to develop student self-awareness of preferred learning style.
Gene Wintner, Susan Cunningham, Joanna Fortna Northern Essex Community College Developmental Studies and the Learning Accommodations Center Multi-modal, Multi-intelligence Classroom Activities An examination of multi-modal, multi-intelligence teaching methods applied to developmental writing and reading curricula in college classes.
James M. Gentile Manchester Community College English "Icebreaker" in Writing Curriculum An introduction to rhetoric, illustrating the relationship between oral and written speech for a classroom of diverse learners.
Ken Klucznik Manchester Community College English Alternative Means of Assessment of Content Understanding A comparison of applied teaching strategies that develop student responses to literature.
Sandra Jenkins, Eileen Furey, Maureen O'Connor Manchester Community College Social Science and Hospitality Management Redesigning a Food Service Lab Using UDI Principles An assessment of environmental needs of diverse learners in a laboratory setting.