Wisconsin Teaching Scholars

Program Description and Purpose:

The Wisconsin Teaching Scholars is a program designed for outstanding faculty and teaching academic staff who have over ten years of teaching experience. Focusing on the Scholarship of Teaching, it gives participants the opportunity at mid-career to contemplate the nature of their own teaching and their students' learning. Throughout the year-long program, the Teaching Scholars undertake a major course revision, culminating in a public presentation of their project at OPID's Spring Conference or another appropriate forum agreed upon by the Scholar in consultation with the Program Director and the OPID Staff.

The Scholarship of Teaching involves problem-posing about issues of teaching and learning through appropriate pedagogical methods and/or disciplinary epistemologies. For a teaching and learning activity to be designated as scholarship, it should be public, open to critical review and evaluation by self and peers, and accessible for exchange and use by other members of one's scholarly community. The courrse redesign undertaken by the Scholar will engagethese principles of the scholarship of teaching. The purpose of teh course redesign is to deepen student learning and involve the teacher in a more rigorous investigation of the teaching and learning goals of the course.

For more information on the Wisconsin Teaching Scholars Program click on the links to the following pages:

Production of this web site is made possible by a grant in SOTL provided by OPID (the Office of Professional and Instructional Development) and by matching funds provided by the Office of the Provost at UW-RF