1. Heather Pelzel

    UW-Whitewater Professor of Biology Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 2014-15 Co-Director, Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars, 2019-2026 The Transformative Power of WTFS: A Personal Journey How I Found WTFS My introduction to the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars Program (WTFS) began by happy accident. As a new faculty member, I was seeking opportunities to enhance my teaching […]

  2. Jane Purse-Wiedenhoeft

    UW-Oshkosh Chair and Professor of Theatre Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 2013-14 The Story of a Theatre Professor’s Teaching and Learning Journey A narrative can be defined as a detailed written account of connected events or as an artform of storytelling often in the format of a biography. In telling my individual story, I do so from […]

  3. Katia Levintova

    UW-Green Bay Professor, Political Science, Global Studies,and Democracy and Justice Studies Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 2012-13   As I reflect back on my career since I participated in WTFS about 10 years ago (2012-13), I am struck at how different my professional interests are now compared to my early career priorities, including the dramatic shift in […]

  4. Alison K. Staudinger

    University of Alaska Southeast Interim Dean, School of Arts & Sciences and Associate Professor of Social Sciences Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 1999-2000 Co-Director, Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars, 2018-2020 Interim Dean by Accident, SoTL by Design After five months at my new institution, I became interim Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences. I never […]

  5. Joel Sipress

    UW-Superior Professor, Social Inquiry Department Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 1999-2000   Having had the good fortune to receive an excellent undergraduate liberal arts education, I embarked upon graduate study in History for the purpose of sharing the benefits of that sort of educational experience with others. While I subscribed to the ideal of the college faculty […]

  6. Jody Siker

    Northeastern Illinois University Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 2017-18 Assistant Professor, College of Education   I participated in the WTFS fellowship and Faculty College when I worked as an assistant professor of education at UW-Parkside from 2015 to 2019. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) deeply informed my work as a teacher and researcher then and continues […]

  7. Helen Rosenberg

    UW-Parkside Emeritus Professor of Sociology Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 1992-93 Reflections on SoTL experiences and practices by WTFS alumni I taught in the Sociology Department at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside (UWP) from 1991-2021, a 30-year tenure. I came to UWP with little teaching experience and huge imposter syndrome. The WTF program (1992) helped me understand how […]

  8. Jessica Lyn Van Slooten

    Bay de Noc Community College Dean of Arts and Sciences Wisconsin Teaching Fellow (UW-Colleges, Manitowoc), 2011-12 Leading through SoTL Inquiry As a literary scholar, some of my favorite works of criticism are those that provide narrative elements, frameworks for analysis, and taxonomies. Perhaps that’s why Pat Hutchings’ “taxonomy of [SoTL] questions” is a touchstone for […]