Wisconsin Teaching Fellow

April 4, 2025

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Associate Dean, College of Business Administration, and Professor of Political Science and Public Administration Wisconsin Teaching Fellow (UW-Green Bay), 2011-12 From Lecture to Learning My engagement with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) through the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars program profoundly influenced my approach to being a college professor. […]

April 4, 2025

UW-La Crosse Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Founding Director of the Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning at the University of UW- Lacrosse Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 1986-87 Co-Director, Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars, 1997-2000 If we don’t know how we learn, how on earth do we know how to teach? L. Raphael Reif, President of […]

April 3, 2025

 UW-Stevens Point Katz Distinguished Professor of Psychology Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 2006-07 Wisconsin Teaching Scholars, 2010-11 Participation in the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars (WTFS) Program as both a Fellow and Scholar was instrumental in the overall development of my teaching career, scholarly productivity, and professional networking. As a social scientist, the ability to be supported […]

April 3, 2025

Fairleigh Dickinson University Professor of History Wisconsin Teaching Fellow (UW-Stout), 2004-05 A True Blessing, But Not Without Its Curses: The Influence of the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows Program on My Academic Career Let me begin by stating unequivocally that my time as a Wisconsin Teaching Fellow (WTF) way back in 2004-5 was one of the most […]

April 3, 2025

Pennsylvania State University Brown-McCourtney Career Development Professor in the McCourtney Institute and Professor of Political Science and African American Studies Wisconsin Teaching Fellow (UW-La Crosse), 2011-12 My participation in the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars (WTFS) program was a formative experience that profoundly influenced my approach to higher education. The WTFS program, combined with my […]

April 3, 2025

UW-La Crosse Assistant Professor, Comparative Animal Physiology Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 2023-2024 Finding Belongingness as a STEM Educator   The Wisconsin Teaching and Fellows and Scholars (WTFS) program is a meta experience where instructors can both experience and explore pedagogical innovation. The WTFS program is also a community of practice by which participants can support one […]

April 3, 2025

UW-Stevens Point Professor of History Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 2012-2013 Wisconsin Teaching Scholar, 2016-2017 Co-Director, Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars, 2021-2026 Embodying Hope, Play, and Connection!: My SoTL Journey and WTFS As I reflect on SoTL in my educator career, I am transported to my childhood and my first understandings about the power of teachers and […]

April 3, 2025

Ohio University Chair,Analytics &InfromationSystems; O Bleness Professor of Analytics & Infromation Systems Wisconsin Teaching Fellow (UW–Green Bay) , 2013-14 Transformative Teaching: How the Wisconsin Teaching Fellow Program Shaped My SoTL Perspective Being a Wisconsin Teaching Fellow in 2013 was a transformative experience that deepened my understanding of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). The […]

March 27, 2025

University of Denver Director of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Faculty Learning Communities Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, UW Colleges (Fond du Lac), 2018-19   Everything changed for me, that one May, when I walked into a SoTL workshop during the teaching pre-conference in my discipline facilitated by Regan Gurung. My PhD officially conferred a mere […]

March 26, 2025

UW-Milwaukee Professor Emeritus of Communication Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 1995-1996 Wisconsin Teaching Fellows, 2002-2003   When I was a new professor, I suspect that I was an ineffective teacher for many of my students, in spite of the fact that I spent hours carefully preparing for each class. In retrospect, there were legitimate reasons for this […]