WTFS Co-Director

  1. Aeron Haynie

    April 7, 2025

    University of New Mexico ProfessorBritish and Irish Literary Studies Wisconsin Teaching Fellow(UW-Green Bay), 2001-02 Co-Director, Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars, 2012-13   I was fortunate to be hired by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in 1999 for a tenure-track position because it provided me with access to a vanguard movement in SoTL. I had always […]

  2. Cyndi Kernahan

    April 7, 2025

    UW-River Falls Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 2001-02 Wisconsin Teaching Scholar, 2009-10 Co-Director, Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars, 2012-18   I arrived at UWRF in the fall of 1999 planning to continue the disciplinary research I was trained to do as a graduate […]

  3. William Cerbin

    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 […]

  4. Valerie Barske

    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 […]

  5. Heather Pelzel

    March 26, 2025

    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 […]

  6. Alison K. Staudinger

    March 26, 2025

    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 […]