High Impact Practice Teaching Award

The Sarah Baker High Impact Practice Teaching Award recognizes a full-time or part-time IU Indianapolis faculty member who has excelled at successfully integrating one or more high-impact practices into a first-year experience course. High-impact practices could include, but are not limited do, learning communities, service learning and community engagement, global learning, undergraduate research, collaborative assignments, project-based learning, writing intensive courses, and an ePortfolio, etc. First-year experience courses include Bridge, a first-year seminar, a gateway course, and a general education course. 

Award

Recipients will be recognized at the Division of Undergraduate Education Spring Awards Convocation and be awarded a $1,000 monetary award.

Eligibility

The award is open to any full-time or part-time IU Indianapolis faculty member who has successfully integrated at least one high-impact practice into an existing first-year experience course (e.g. Bridge, first-year seminar, a gateway course, or general education).

Award criteria

• Evidence that the nominee has implemented a high-impact practice into an existing first-year experience course
• Evidence that contributions are sustainable over time
• Evidence that contributions are innovative and demonstrate best practice. This may include ongoing professional development related to High-impact practices and/or the review and utilization of IU Indianapolis’s Engaged Learning and High-Impact Practice Taxonomies
• Evidence that dissemination of information about one’s curricular innovation has occurred (e.g., presentation or publication)
• Documented assessment of impact on student learning and student engagement

Nomination process

• The primary nominator completes the nomination form and writes a short letter (400 words or less) supporting the nomination. The primary nominator can submit this information by visiting this site.
• Nominees will be contacted by a representative from the Institute for Engaged Learning and asked to submit:
  • A personal narrative (up to 3 pages) that describes and documents how the award criteria are met
  • A CV or professional resume
  • 1 additional letter to support the nomination (this letter is in addition to the one submitted by the nominator)

Deadline

Nominations will be accepted through 5:00pm on February 1. Please use this link to submit a nomination.