Community of Practice (CoP)

Summer Interim Program

June typically finds the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars (WTFS) in Madison, spending an intensive week discussing and practicing new pedagogies and developing a concrete project to better understand student learning in their own classrooms. This community-focused work has been delayed a year because of COVID-19, and instead you’ll find WTFSers in a digitally based Community of Practice (CoP), centered on the experience of teaching and learning in pandemic conditions. The goals of this CoP are to critically reflect both on our experiences from emergency distance learning in the Spring and plan concretely for the Fall, through an intentional naming of our values and commitments and examination of how our policies, syllabi, and pedagogy live up to them. Participants can engage through multiple modalities, including large and small group synchronous conversations, reflective self-work, and asynchronous discussion boards.  The CoP is based in Canvas giving instructors a sense of what navigating our courses is like for students, while also testing our various video conferencing platforms people might be considering. To guide our work, we’re reading Stephen Brookfield’s Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher and Kevin Gannon’s Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto, as well as emergent themes such as racial justice, inequality and the digital classroom, and engaging students online.  By the end of the summer, participants will have reimagined an aspect of their Fall teaching, and built connections across the UW System.

UW-Eau Claire

Bryan Brown Fellow
Communication Sciences and Disorders

Matt Evans Scholar
Physics & Astronomy

UW-Green Bay

Jessica Van Slooten Scholar
English, Writing Foundations, Women’s & Gender Studies

Dinesh Yadav Fellow
Theatre

UW-La Crosse

Rebekah Fowler Scholar
Literature

Hongying Xu Fellow
Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Pedagogy

UW-Milwaukee

Ali Gattoni Fellow
Communication

Sarah Riforgiate Scholar
Communication

UW-Oshkosh

Ashay Desai Scholar
Management

Don Hones Scholar
ESL / Multicultural Education

UW-Parkside

Ekundayo Akinlade Fellow
Management and Human Resources

UW-Platteville

Andrey Ivanov Fellow
History

Chelsea Lancelle Fellow
Geology

Tyler Ostergaard Fellow
Art History

Bidhan Roy Scholar
Mechanical Engineering

UW-River Falls

Greg Kerkvliet Fellow
Rhetoric and Composition

Desiree Wiesen-Martin Fellow
Criminology

UW-Stevens Point

Steven Johnson Fellow
Physical Therapy

UW-Stout

Keith Gilland Fellow
Ecology/Environmental Science

Leni Marshall Scholar
Composition, Literature, and Intercultural Agility

UW-Superior

Praopan Pratoomchat Fellow
Economics

Nicholle Schuelke Fellow
Education

UW-Whitewater

Ken Brosky Fellow
English

Nadine Kriska Scholar
Biology

UW Extended Campus

Amy Lane Fellow
Instructional Design