The scholarly work of faculty and students in the School of Education, Health, and Human Performance is critical to the missions of the School and College. Research informs teaching and learning; teaching and learning inform research. Faculty in the School of Education, Health, and Human Performance are committed to modeling research-based practice in their teaching and engaging in research that involves our students in meaningful ways.

The purpose of this site is to promote stronger teacher-scholar connections and greater resources, provide information for both faculty and students, recognize faculty and student activities, and enhance research standards within the School of Education, Health, and Human Performance.

The Teacher-Scholar Model

The Teacher-Scholar Model is a vision statement about the roles of teaching and scholarship of faculty members in the School of Education, Health, and Human Performance. We believe those roles must be interconnected and supported by the resources of the School and College.

The teacher-scholar:

1. is highly trained in his or her area(s) of expertise and teaching assignment(s) and maintains that expertise through scholarly activities;
2. articulates long-term professional goals that include a focused research agenda and excellence and growth in teaching that is closely connected with scholarship;
3. provides instruction that draws from scholarship and expertise and creates learning contexts for students that are rigorous, engaging, connected with other knowledge in the general and specialized curriculum, and promote problem-solving, cognitive growth, intellectual curiosity, and the expected outcomes of the program;
4. involves students with scholarly activities in meaningful ways;
5. engages in focused individual and collaborative scholarship that may be of many forms within four domains: original research that creates knowledge; integrative research that synthesizes knowledge; engaged scholarship that connects research to professional practice; and scholarship about the effects of teaching. All of these forms require the standards of scholarship: goals, preparation, professional methods, significant results, effective presentation (e.g., publication, presentation, discussion, peer review, professional critique), and reflective critique;
6. engages in service activities that support individual goals of scholarship and goals of the program, department, School, College, and/or profession; and
7. promotes the teaching, research, and other scholarly work of other faculty within and outside the School of Education, Health, and Human Performance through mentoring, collaboration, review and critique, and discussion.

The School of Education, Health, and Human Performance supports the teacher-scholar and scholarly activities within the School by:

1. recognizing excellence in interconnected teaching and scholarship;
2. recognizing student achievement and scholarship;
3. providing support for scholarly activities, including the scholarship of teaching, through grants, sabbaticals, travel support, graduate assistant support, professional development, release time, summer support, technology, and other resources;
4. assuring appropriate settings for teaching that include requisite space, materials, technology, and furniture;
5. facilitating the creation of scholarly communities within and outside the School of Education through sponsoring forums, discussions, retreats, media publications, and other professional venues;
6. funding student involvement in scholarship through student-faculty grants (undergraduate and graduate) and support for dissemination of the results of scholarship;
7. assuring that all coursework, both undergraduate and graduate, is taught by fully-qualified faculty that are highly trained in their area(s) of expertise and teaching assignment; and
8. recruiting and retaining the most qualified, diverse faculty by means that are professional, legal, transparent, and inclusive and to fill roles that clearly support our scholarship and teaching missions within the programs of study.

Teacher-Scholar Committee		Teacher-Scholar Awards
Timothy Scheett, Commitee Chair mutindi ndunda, EDFS Emily Skinner, EDEE Deborah Miller , HEHP		2006-2007 Ann Wallace Junior Faculty Teacher-Scholar 2005-2006 William Barfield Senior Faculty Teacher-Scholar Margaret Hagood Junior Faculty Teacher-Scholar

Undergraduate Student Research

Undergraduate research encourages faculty and student collaboration. Students must commit serious efforts to these pursuits. Undergraduate projects require a caring faculty member who is willing to serve as a mentor to undergraduates working in his or her area of expertise. The more faculty who are willing and able to mentor students, the stronger the campus environment for undergraduate research.

Students who are interested in pursuing graduate work should take advantage of this opportunity for early research with an experienced faculty mentor.

Deadlines:

Due to a variety of deadlines and needs of the various programs in the School of Education, Health, and Human Performance, proposals are reviewed within 30 days of receipt by the committee chair.

Forms:

• Application in MS Word format (.doc - requires Microsoft Word or Open Office to view)
• Application in Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf - requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view)

Graduate Student Research

Graduate student research represents a culminating education experience for students. The ability to synthesize knowledge and information gained from classroom settings together with past work experience to develop, test and ultimately discover new information is the ultimate experience in graduate school. Students looking for funding to support their graduate research are encouraged to submit an application to the Teacher-Scholar committee.

Deadlines:

Due to a variety of deadlines and needs of the various programs in the School of Education, Health, and Human Performance, proposals are reviewed within 30 days of receipt by the committee chair.

Forms:

• Application in MS Word format (.doc - requires Microsoft Word or Open Office to view)
• Application in Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf - requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view)