{"id":101,"date":"2019-04-18T14:37:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T19:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:51:22","slug":"wtfs-co-directors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/wisconsin-teaching-fellows-scholars-program\/wtfs-co-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Teaching Fellows &amp; Scholars Co-Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"cfct-build-101\" class=\"cfct-build grid\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-md-3 cfct-block\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cfct-module cfct-supplemental\">\n\t\t\t\t    <div class=\"cfct-mod-content\">\n    <nav class=\"widget widget_meta\" >\n\n        <div class=\"menu-cfct-module-cb25dcc695d43141dacdcf2c00c22a1e-container\"><ul id = \"menu-wtfs\" class = \"menu nav\"><li id=\"menu-item-13742\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-13742\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/wisconsin-teaching-fellows-scholars-program\/\">Wisconsin Teaching Fellows &amp; 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Videos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-8130\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-8130\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/wisconsin-teaching-fellows-scholars-program\/2020-wisconsin-teaching-fellows-scholars\/\">2020 WTFS Community of Practice<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-8869\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-has-children menu-item-8869\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/wisconsin-teaching-fellows-scholars-program\/2019-20-wisconsin-teaching-fellows-scholars-2\/\">2019-20 Fellows &amp; Scholars<\/a>\n<ul class=\"sub-menu\">\n\t<li id=\"menu-item-16382\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-16382\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/wisconsin-teaching-fellows-scholars-program\/2019-20-wisconsin-teaching-fellows-scholars-2\/wtfs-2019-20-abstracts-presentations\/\">Abstracts, Presentations, Posters, &amp; Videos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-8746\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-8746\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/wisconsin-teaching-fellows-scholars-program\/2018-19-wisconsin-teaching-fellows-scholars\/\">2018-19 Fellows &amp; Scholars<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>    <\/nav>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cfct-module cfct-divider\">\n\t\t\t\t<hr class=\"\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><div class=\"col-md-9 cfct-block\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cfct-module uwsa-rich-text\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cfct-mod-content copy\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11561 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2021\/04\/Barske_UWSTP_Headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Barske_UWSTP_Headshot\" width=\"192\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><em><a href=\"mailto:vbarske@uwsp.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Valerie Barske<\/strong><\/a><\/em> is a Professor of History and Coordinator of International Studies and Peace Studies with teaching and service commitments in Women\u2019s and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point.\u00a0 Barske received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures with disciplinary emphases in History and Anthropology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2009. Her ethnographic fieldwork and archival research on female activists in Okinawa, Japan has been funded by a Fulbright IIE Fellowship, a Blakemore Foundation Fellowship, and a Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Fellowship.\u00a0 Barske also received a UW System Fellowship with the Institute for Research in the Humanities.\u00a0 As a scholarly teacher, Barske combines anthropological theories of embodiment with feminist pedagogical practices into her own \u201csignature pedagogy\u201d for teaching History and International Studies.\u00a0 Barske employs embodied learning as an inclusive strength-based approach that helps students to co-construct \u201cbrave spaces\u201d for taking new actions, to think with and through movement, and to explore epistemologies that valorize affect, agency, and intersectional subjectivities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cfct-module uwsa-rich-text\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cfct-mod-content copy\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2019\/02\/Heather-Pelzel-e1554934395388.jpeg\" alt=\"Heather Pelzel smiling at the camera\" width=\"189\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:pelzelh@uww.edu\"><strong><em>Heather Pelzel <\/em><\/strong><\/a>is a Professor of Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater where she teaches courses in cell biology, microbiology, and public health. She was a Wisconsin Teaching Fellow in 2014-2015 with a project that focused on the use of Team-Based Learning to improve student success in a mid-level required course for Biology majors. At UWW, Pelzel has been a LEARN Center Faculty Fellow and Director, a Teaching Scholar, a departmental Master Advisor, and now a department Chair. Pelzel is a SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) Ambassador and offers workshops and training opportunities for this interested in incorporating the SENCER ideals and pedagogy into their curriculum. Heather does this in her own courses through the use of the Tiny Earth project in her microbiology course. Her pedagogical approaches center around the use of complex problems and real data to increase student engagement and learning. Heather is also a proponent of alternative grading and has started examining different approaches in her courses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":85,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-101","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cfct-can-haz-build"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18774,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions\/18774"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/opid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}