Honoring the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars Participants

Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars (WTFS) is a signature program of the Universities of Wisconsin. Each year two instructors from each UW campus are selected to represent their institution. Participants spend one year in professional community, and they design and carry out individual scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects that are presented at the OPID Spring Conference. This year UWGB had two stellar representatives: Heather Kaminski and Taskia A. Khan. Professor Khan compared two traditional assignments with one that followed Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) principles by evaluating students’ perceptions of clarity, relevance, engagement, confidence, and learning. Professor Kaminski examined the impact on governmental accounting students of engaging in the scaffolded, high-impact practice of creating an Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for local government agencies.

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Heather Kaminsk
Assistant Professor
Cofrin E. School of Business 
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Taskia A. Khan
Assistant Teaching Professor
Resch School of Engineering

The 2025-2026 WTFS representatives from UWGB will be Professors Alison Jane Martingano and Golam Mushih Tanimul Ahsan. They will join the program next year with new co-facilitator Georjeanna Wilson-Doenges. If this all sounds like a great opportunity to you, watch for the Call for Applications in Fall 2025.

Call for Teaching Enhancement Grant Proposals (Due Apr. 28, 2025)

The Instructional Development Council (IDC) is accepting applications for Teaching Enhancement Grants (TEGs) through support from the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) and the Office of the Provost. TEGs provide funding for professional development activities related to teaching or for projects that lead to the improvement of teaching skills or the development of innovative teaching strategies.

Faculty and instructional academic staff whose primary responsibility is teaching for the academic year in which the proposed project takes place are strongly encouraged to apply! Click the button below for full details.

Spring 2025 Application Info

Applications are due Monday, April 28, 2025. If you have any questions about the application or TEGs, please email the Instructional Development Council at idc@uwgb.edu.

Call for Faculty College 2025 (Applications Due Jan. 8, 2025)

 

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Faculty College Attendees from 2024

Each year, educators from across the Universities of Wisconsin gather for Faculty College, an institute and retreat led by the Office of Professional & Instructional Development (OPID). The 45th Annual Faculty College will be held at the Osthoff Resort at Elkhart Lake (close to three of our four locations in Sheboygan County) on May 27 – 30, 2025.

Apply

If you are interested in being one of UW-Green Bay’s representatives, please email a half-page statement of interest to CATL@uwgb.edu. Applications are due to CATL on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025.

Questions?

Please contact CATL if you have any questions about the application process. Programmatic inquiries may be directed to Fay Akindes, Director of Systemwide Professional and Instructional Development, UW System, fakindes@uwsa.edu.

Call for Teaching Enhancement Grant Proposals (Due Dec. 2, 2024)

The Instructional Development Council (IDC) is accepting applications for Teaching Enhancement Grants (TEGs) through support from the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) and the Office of the Provost. TEGs provide funding for professional development activities related to teaching or for projects that lead to the improvement of teaching skills or the development of innovative teaching strategies.

Faculty and instructional academic staff whose primary responsibility is teaching for the academic year in which the proposed project takes place are strongly encouraged to apply! Click the button below for full details.

Fall 2024 Application Info

Applications are due Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. If you have any questions about the application or TEGs, please email the Instructional Development Council at idc@uwgb.edu.

Call for New Co-Directors for OPID’s Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars Program (Applications Due Nov. 4, 2024)

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2023-24 WTFS Participants

The UW System’s Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID) is seeking two new Co-Directors for the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars (WTFS) Program. The Co-Directors will ideally include one person with expertise in quantitative methods and another with a strong background in qualitative methodologies. Together they will create a year-long community of practice and lead participants through the design and execution of a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project, culminating in a public presentation of abstracts at the OPID Spring Conference.

Successful completion of the WTFS program or a comparable equivalent is strongly preferred in interested applicants, who are also expected to be tenured faculty or instructors in the UW System. Co-Directors will travel to four OPID events during the year. Information regarding how to apply and the annual stipend for the position is available below and on OPID’s website. Applications are due to OPID, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024.