2024 Leadership in Teaching and Learning Fellowships

The MacPherson Institute has announced the recipients of the 2024-2026 Leadership in Teaching and Learning (LTL) Fellowship. The LTL Fellowship grant opportunity provides instructors with $15,000 to fund a teaching research project over two years.

This year’s recipients will explore topics related to the development a formative assessment tool for anatomy courses, support for first-year chemistry students to reduce early withdrawal rates, enhanced student engagement through frameworks of critical, creative and collaborative thinking in biology courses, and the implementation of team-based learning and open pedagogy in an economics course.

The LTL program is partially funded by the Paul MacPherson Teaching Fellowship Trust with a goal of supporting the teaching and learning research activities of faculty at McMaster.

“The Fellowship is such an important program to advance research on teaching and learning and to develop leaders who can model the value of teaching and learning at McMaster,” said Lori Goff, director of the Paul R. MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation and Excellence in Teaching. “I’m excited to welcome a new cohort of Fellows and to connect them with our past recipients so they can learn and grow together.”

The fellowship program engages faculty in leading change, practicing the scholarship of teaching and learning, and supporting communities within the Faculties with a goal of providing mentorship and leadership in teaching and learning.

2024 Leadership in Teaching and Learning Fellows

Danielle Brewer-Deluce – Pathology and Molecular Medicine
Project title: Metacognition & Testing as Learning (MeTAL) Study

Lydia Chen – Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Project title: MacSPARK (The McMaster Accelerating Chemistry Success Preparation And Review of Knowledge)

Zhen He – Economics
Project title: Evaluation of the impact of team-based learning and open pedagogy in a level-II course in Economics

Krupa Patel – Biology
Project title: Implementing a comprehensive framework for nurturing and promoting critical, creative and collaborative thinking in a biology course

Congratulations to all of the recipients. Please visit our grants page to learn more about each project.