The National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU or “the University”) Resource Center for EMI (“the Center”) has formulated the following regulations to encourage college and university instructors to form professional communities of EMI instructors to enhance instructors’ competence and improve teaching quality through the promotion of peer learning, experience sharing, materials design, and research and development.
National Taiwan Normal University
Resource Center for EMI
Grant Regulations for Professional Learning Community of EMI Instructors
2024.02.05 Passed during the General Meeting of the Resource Center for EMI
Purpose
The National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU or “the University”) Resource Center for EMI (“the Center”) has formulated the following regulations to encourage college and university instructors to form professional communities of EMI instructors to enhance instructors’ competence and improve teaching quality through the promotion of peer learning, experience sharing, materials design, and research and development.
Requirements
- Each community must be composed of at least four instructors; each instructor may only join one community.
- The EMI Teacher Professional Community is recommended that a convenor with EMI teaching experience or EMI certificate apply. The convenor will be mainly responsible for coordinating, planning, contacting, and compiling the relevant results of the teacher community.
- The center will hold a consensus meeting for conveners after announcing the subsidy list to help conveners of each community have a deeper understanding of the operating model of professional teacher communities.
Application Procedures and Review Principles
- All information is announced on the website of the center. Click on the link below to enter Professional Learning Community of EMI Instructors page.
- The conveners are requested to adhere to the timeline outlined in the guidelines for Professional Learning Community of EMI Instructors provided by our center. Please complete and upload “Attachment 1: Application Form” and “Attachment 2: Reimburse Application Form” to the online application platform.
- Grant applications shall be reviewed by experts and scholars invited by the Center.
- Grant amounts shall be reviewed and determined based on the objectives and prospective benefits of the community plan (including benefits to instructors’ teaching and students’ learning), the community operating models and mechanisms, the feasibility of the plans, and the implementation status of previous plans (optional).
- After completion of the review, the list of communities receiving grants and the grant amounts will be announced, and the conveners will be notified of the results by email.
Program Schedule and Financial Aid
- The application schedule, implementation schedule, and date of the outcomes presentation session shall be determined and announced by the Center based on actual circumstances in the given year.
- The maximum grant for each application shall be NT60,000. The number of communities receiving grants and grant amounts shall be determined based on the allocated budget of the given year. In case of a budget cut or freeze, the Center may suspend the grants or reduce the grant amounts.
- Grants may only be used toward administrative fees. Grant items shall be detailed separately in the application form.
- The relevant reimbursement request is conducted in two periods:
- May 6, 2024 (Monday) to May 10, 2024(Friday): Accept the relevant reimbursement request for community activities conducted between March 25, 2024 (Monday) to May 5, 2024 (Sunday).
- June 17, 2024 (Monday) to June 21, 2024(Friday): Accept the relevant reimbursement request for community activities conducted between May 6, 2024 (Monday) to June 16, 2024 (Sunday).
- All requests for reimbursement shall be sent in by registered mail or submitted in person, the postmark date on the envelope will be regarded as the date of application. If fund disbursement cannot be completed as scheduled, the Center shall withdraw the remaining grant amount.
Outcomes
- For the EMI teacher professional community project, please choose one theme from “Curriculum Design, Teaching, and Assessment” and arrange your community plan on the basis of “12 weeks: March 25, 2024 (Monday) to June 16, 2024 (Sunday) ” (see application form for further details) .
- Each community should conduct at least three community activities within the 12-week planning period. Every community activity must be attended by all community members. Activities shall be documented with photographs and an event log, which shall be presented at the outcomes presentation session.
- The planning of teacher community activities is jointly arranged by four teachers, and at least one community-organized activity must invite EMI experts Educators, EMI pilot Educators or Oxford Certified EMI seed Educators to participate. For example, community activities can invite EMI experts to give speeches, and the topics of the speeches can be determined based on the professional development needs of community members; EMI pilot teachers or EMI teachers can also be invited to participate in class observation and discussion activities. In this activity, community members provide their own teaching videos, lesson plan designs, designed worksheets, learning assessment methods and other materials, allowing community members to conduct discussions with EMI pilot teachers or EMI seed teachers to promote the improvement of EMI teaching capabilities. .
- The center will be holding 4 online lectures on EMI teaching from March to June 2024. Each community teacher must attend at least one online lecture on EMI teaching held by the center.
- Instructors in professional communities that receive grants shall participate in the Professional EMI Teaching Community Outcomes Presentation Sessions organized by the Center, during which they shall publicly share their project outcomes. Participation in the Center’s instructor development activities such as speeches, research presentations, and curriculum discussing is also encouraged.
- The content of project outcomes reports shall be consistent with the projected outcomes given in the respective application forms. Reasons for any discrepancy or failure to achieve the projected outcomes shall be stated in the outcomes report.
- Community conveners shall submit an outcomes report in the given form of a one page poster by 16:00 on June 21, 2024 (Friday) both in print and digitally (including the outcomes report, photos, and other relevant documents).
- The event logs and outcomes reports of all communities shall be made available on the Center’s website for non-profit uses or academic promotion.
EMI Teacher Professional Community Program Completion Standards
- At least three community activities are held within the 12-week planning period, with all community members attending.
- Invite EMI experts, EMI pilot teachers or EMI seed teachers to participate in at least one community event.
- Each community teacher must attend at least one EMI teaching online lecture conducted by the center.
- Each community shall submit an outcomes report in the given form of a one page poster.
- Every community teacher shall participate in the Professional EMI Teaching Community Outcomes Presentation Sessions organized by the Center.
- Community conveners should compile and submit activity logs, reimbursement requests, checklists, and other relevant information in time.
Supplementary Provisions
- Applicants for this grant may not concurrently apply for other professional teaching community grants from other EMI resource centers. Verified violators will have their grant revoked by the Center.
- Instructors who receive grants shall uphold professional academic integrity and may not act in a manner that contravenes the applicable intellectual property laws and the Personal Data Protection Act.
- This grant shall be funded by the National Taiwan Normal University Resource Center for EMI grant. When requesting reimbursements, expenses shall be reported truthfully and in accordance with the Principles of Subsidy and Fund Use for the Program on Bilingual Education for Students in Colleges and Universities and the Funding Standard Table for Donations, Subsidies, and Sponsored Projects of the Ministry of Education.
- The Regulations shall be promulgated and come into effect upon passage by the General Meeting of the Resource Center for EMI. The same shall apply to future revisions
Contact
- Dr. Sin-Chie, Sim
- tel:02-7749-7084
- email: rcemi@deps.ntnu.edu.tw
Application Process
- Please complete and upload “Attachment 1: Application Form” and “Attachment 2: Reimburse Application Form” to the online application platform by Wednesday, March 6th, 2024.
- Applications submitted with missing information or in an incorrect format will not be accepted.
Application Document (Please submit by Wednesday, March 6th, 2024.)
01 Regulations for Professional Learning Community of EMI Instructors
02 Attachment 1: Application Form
03 Attachment 2: Reimburse Application Form
Reimbursement Document (The relevant forms will be updated on the website in the near future.)
04_Reimbursement Items and Principles
05_Event Log
06_Work-study Student/Assistant Online Hiring Process (Optional)
07_Work-study Student/Assistant Insurance Applicaiton (Optional)
08 Work-study Student/Assistant Work Report (Optional)
09_Speaking Fee Receipt of Payment (Optional)
10 Travel Expense Receipt of Payment (Optional)
Outcomes Report
11 Outcomes Report
Application Period
From now on to Wednesday, March 6th, 2024.
Application Deadline
5pm, Wednesday, March 6th, 2024 (By postmark)。
Application Result
To be announced on the RCEMI website and via email on Wednesday, March 20th, 2024.
Community Event Implication (The Grant Period)
From Monday, March 25th to Sunday, June 16st, 2024.
Reimbursement
Please scan the sign-in sheet and receipts, attach them to the event log (in DOC/DOCX format), and email the file to the case clerk, Ms. Lo (vivianne@ntnu.edu.tw) within 10 days of the end of the event, with “Event Log for Professional EMI Instructor Community of Practice_[Event Date]_[Convener’s Name and Name of Affiliated University/College]” as the subject line.
Upon receipt of the verification email from the case clerk, enclose the original copies of the documents in an envelope titled “Event Log for Professional EMI Instructor Community of Practice” and address it to the National Taiwan Normal University Resource Center for EMI (Room 102 of the College of Liberal Arts, Pu Building), No. 162, Sec. 1, Heping E. Rd., Da’an Dist., Taipei City 106.
Submission of Outcomes Report
To be submitted by Friday, June 21th, 2024, within two weeks after the grant period.
Final Presentation (Physical)
Wednesday, June 26th, 2024. (The exact time is to be announced on the RCEMI website)
Please refer to our EMI Expert Database for more EMI professionals and recommended speakers.
- This file only presents the name, affiliation, and expertise of the EMI experts.
- If you would like to invite one of the EMI experts for a speech, please contact their affiliation/institute.
- The database will be updated on a regular basis. Please download the latest version.
Should you have any questions, please contact:
- Dr. Sin-Chie, Sim
- Tel: 02-7749-7084
- Email: rcemi@deps.ntnu.edu.tw