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  • Upcoming Deadlines of Interest
    11/02/2009 - 17:35

     

    The 2010 Winter Retreat will be held on Thursday, January 14th, 2010, from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00p.m. in Rooms 253 and 259 of the Educational Science Building. The theme is "Internationalizing the Curriculum." The event will include guest speakers, campus panelists, and an international resource fair. We invite all faculty, staff and graduate students of UW-Madison currently involved in or interested in internationalizing teaching. Food will be provided. For more details or questions about the event, please contact the retreat Co-Organizers: Katherine Sanders at kjsander@international.wisc.edu, 608-265-4753; Wendy Crone at crone@engr.wisc.edu. To register, please email your name, job title, email address, and department affiliation to the Teaching Academy PA, Weili Zhao, at wzhao6@wisc.edu.  Registration is free; however, space will be limited.

     

    DoIT Academic Technology and the UW Teaching Academy invite you to join the next Top 5 Teaching Challenges Event to be held on Wednesday, November 4, from 12:00-1:30pm at Grainger Hall 3180. Dr. Jeff Henriques from the Department of Psychology will give a presentation on Threshold Concepts. Threshold Concepts are part of a UW System Leadership Site initiative, and according to their website are, "ideas students need to learn if they are to get any further in a particular subject area; not because someone says they have to learn them, but because the subject itself demands it."

     

    UW System faculty and staff are invited to submit proposals for the President’s Summit on Excellence in Teaching and Learning, a conference to be held April 29-May 1, 2010, at the Madison Concourse Hotel in Madison, WI.  Proposals are due November 4, 2009. For more details, see http://www.uwsa.edu/vpacad/summit/

     

    Nominations for the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars program are due on or before November 6, 2009. Each UW Institution may select two participants for the 2010-11 Fellows and Scholars Program.  Each Fellow and Scholar will receive $4,000 in financial support from their institution and a $500 S&E grant from OPID.  Participants in the WTFS Program should be familiar with Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) research.  Each participant undertakes a significant SoTL project, records the project’s progress on an electronic poster, and disseminates the results in public forums.  Teaching Fellows and Scholars are expected to serve as leaders and mentors in campus and UW System SoTL work. For more information, see http://www.uwsa.edu/opid/wtfs/details.htm

     

     

  • Recent Happenings
    10/01/2009 - 13:38

     

    Teaching Academy initiated the Teaching Adventures and Outcomes Forum Series of the 2009-2010 academic year on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 from 12:00pm-1:00pm at R259 Educational Science Building. For this event, Tony Docan-Morgan, assistant professor in Communication Studies from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse gave a talk titled “Developing Meaningful Relationships with Our Students: Research Findings and Practical Ideas”. In particular, he shared with us his research findings and practical ideas on how one-time communicative events change college teacher-student relationships and how these changes could profoundly affect outcomes such as student learning and motivation. Thanks to the publicizing efforts of the Forum collaborative units below, Dr. Docan Morgan's lecture was well received and warmly shared by 43 attendants from the campus.

    Teaching Adventures and Outcomes is a monthly forum for sharing the experience and results of efforts in teaching and learning among faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students. This forum is a collaborative effort of DoIT Department of Academic Technology, the CALS Council on Teaching and Learning, the Center for Biology Education, the Delta Program in Research, Teaching and Learning Excellence, the Engineering Learning Center, the UW Teaching Academy and the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching.

     

    Teaching Academy Welcomes New Executive Committee Members - Three new members join the Executive Committee for the coming academic year of 2009-2010: Jamie L. Henke, Liberal Studies and the Arts; Katherine J. Sanders, Division of International Studies; and Audrey Trainor, Rehabilitation Psychology & Special Education. They join co-chairs Jeff Henriques, Psychology/Nursing and Nick Balster, Soil Science and fellow EC members Janet Batzli, Biocore; Teri Balser, Soil Science; Wendy Crone, Engineering Physics; Erica Halverson, Learning Sciences; Chris Lupton, Academic Technology. and Chris Pfund, DELTA. Members of the Executive Committee are faculty and staff who volunteer to serve a three year term helping to guide the Teaching Academy in its mission to provide leadership to the campus community around issues related to teaching and learning.

    24 September 2009 - The UW-Madison Teaching Academy will launch its fall kickoff on September 24 (Thursday) from 4:00 - 5:30 in On Wisconsin Room of the Red Gym with a theme of "Building the Future for the UW-Teaching Academy". This kickoff intends to convene an internal Teaching Academy members meeting  to approve the revised bylaws and  to invite viable and sustainable ideas from TA members for building a better future for our UW-Teaching Academy. This event is open to all members of the Teaching Academy. Some snacks are provided.

     

    1 - 4 June 2009 - Twenty-nine participants from across campus are spending four days at the Teaching Academy's 2009 Summer Institute.  The theme of this year's Summer Institute is "The Dynamic Classroom." and the event is being held at the UW Arboretum.  Support for the Teaching Academy Summer Institute comes from the Office of the Provost, DoIT Academic Technology, the Department of Pharmacy and the UW Writing Center with individual project support from the Deans of CALS, Letters & Science, School of Medicine and Public Health, School of Education, Pharmacy and Nursing and School of Engineering. 

     

    21 May 2009 - Lillian Tong is this year's Academy Award winner in recognition of her longstanding, enthusiastic, and committed contributions to improving the quality of teaching on campus.

     

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