Call for 2025-26 Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars Program (Applications Due Monday, Nov. 4, 2024)

The UWGB Provost Office and the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, on behalf of the UW System’s Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID), invite faculty and instructional academic staff to apply for the 2025-2026 cohort of the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars (WTFS) Program.

This program is designed to provide time (one year) to systematically reflect with peers in a supportive and open-minded community, and, ultimately, to move from “scholarly teaching” to the “scholarship of teaching.” Administered by OPID and directed by UW faculty, the WTFS Program is grounded in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).

Universities provide a $4,000 summer stipend (paid before the Fall semester), and cover travel, lodging, meals, and incidentals for their WTFS participants. To learn more about the program and the stipend, read the full call on OPID’s website.

How to Apply

Interested applicants should submit items 1-3 below as separate attachments to one email message. This email should be sent to CATL (CATL@uwgb.edu) with the subject line “WTFS Application.” The reference letter should be submitted directly to the CATL email by your Department Chair or Dean by Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. The full list of required materials is below:

  1. A letter stating your interest and qualifications for the WFTS Program (two-page maximum);
  2. A teaching & learning philosophy as it intersects with equity, diversity, and inclusion (three-page maximum);
  3. An abbreviated curriculum vitae (two-page maximum);
  4. A reference letter from your Department Chair or Dean (can be directly emailed to CATL@uwgb.edu).

As always, let us know if you have any questions via email: CATL@uwgb.edu

Fall 2024 Co-Writing Community (Tuesdays 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. & Fridays 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.)

Tara DaPra, one of CATL’s Instructional Development Consultants, will lead another “Co-Writing Community” this fall. A co-writing community is a zero-obligation, zero-preparation, zero-outside work activity. Use this time to work on creative or scholarly projects that might otherwise get pushed aside by the demands of teaching. All faculty and staff are welcome!

The co-writing community will run throughout the fall semester via Zoom from 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. on Fridays. Feel free to join early or late, weekly, or when your schedule allows! Simply drop in with this Zoom link which will be reused for each session.

Please email daprat@uwgb.edu with any questions.

LITE 350: Teaching with an Equity Lens

Learning and Integrating Technology for Education (LITE) 350: Teaching with an Equity Lens is a semester-long community of practice where participants work their way through the Peralta Equity Rubric. Participants focus on one class they teach and apply elements like technology, Universal Design for Learning, and connection and belonging practices while seeking feedback from colleagues to create an equitable class experience for all students.

Prerequisites: Completion of LITE 101 is required; completion of LITE 201 is recommended.

When:  Registration for the Fall 2024 cohort of LITE 350 is now closed. Stay tuned for details on registration for Spring 2025.

Register for LITE 350

Badges & Compensation

LITE 350 badge

Participants will earn a digital badge for completing LITE 350 that you can include in your email signature or embed in online portfolios or resumes as evidence of your commitment to professional development!

Full-time instructors may also be eligible for a $250 stipend if they successfully complete the course within the semester.*

*Only full-time instructors for the 2024-25 AY are eligible for compensation. To receive compensation, participants must receive approval from their unit chair. Instructors who have already met their maximum overload payment for the contract period do not qualify for compensation.

Questions?

If you have any questions about LITE 350, please contact CATL (CATL@uwgb.edu). If you have questions about compensation or the payment process, please contact Human Resources at hr@uwgb.edu.

Teaching with Technology Certificate and Course Enrollments (2024-25 AY)

CATL is continuing the “Teaching with Technology Certificate” program this year! Instructors interested in learning more about how to leverage Canvas and other tools for effective teaching, regardless of modality, are encouraged to participate and complete the full certificate.

The Teaching with Technology Certificate consists of three “Learning and Integrating Technology for Education” (LITE) courses that act as progressive steps in a sequence. Instructors will earn a digital badge after completing the first and second courses in the series, and the Teaching with Technology Certificate after completing the third course. Full-time instructors for the 2024-25 academic year will also earn stipends after completing the second and third courses in the sequence.*

Note: If you have already completed the Distance Education Certificate, this is not a new credential; it has simply been re-titled, so there is no need to re-enroll.

Course Availability, Deadlines, & Compensation

LITE 101: Course Modalities & Technologies

  • All full-time instructors are automatically enrolled in LITE 101: Course Modalities & Technologies. The course will remain open indefinitely, and there is no deadline for completion.
  • LITE 101 is not tied to a stipend.
  • All instructors working toward the Teaching with Technology Certificate who complete LITE 101: Course Modalities & Technologies will be able to enroll in LITE 201: Course Design the following semester.

If you are not a full-time instructor but would like to be added to the course, please email CATL@uwgb.edu.

LITE 201: Course Design

  • The Fall 2024 cohort of LITE 201: Course Design will begin on Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, and run until the end of the semester.
  • Registration for the Fall 2024 cohort of LITE 201 is now closed. Stay tuned for details on registration for Spring 2025.
  • Full-time instructors who complete LITE 201 within the 2024-25 academic year will qualify for a $250 stipend.*
  • All instructors working toward the Teaching with Technology Certificate who complete LITE 201 will be able to enroll in LITE 301 the following semester.

Register for LITE 201

LITE 301: Course Revisions

  • The Fall 2024 cohort of LITE 301: Course Revisions will begin on Monday, Sept. 16, 2024 and run until the end of the spring semester.
  • Registration for the Fall 2024 cohort of LITE 301 now closed. Stay tuned for details on registration for Spring 2025.
  • Full-time instructors who complete LITE 301 within the 2024-25 academic year will qualify for a $250 stipend.*
  • All instructors who complete LITE 301 will receive the Teaching with Technology Certificate.

Register for LITE 301

*Only full-time instructors for the 2024-25 AY are eligible for compensation. To receive compensation, participants must receive approval from their unit chair. Instructors that have already met their maximum overload payment for the contract period do not qualify for compensation.

If you have questions about these courses, please contact CATL at catl@uwgb.edu. If you have questions about compensation or the payment process, please contact Human Resources at hr@uwgb.edu.

Course Descriptions

The first course in the series is called LITE 101: Course Modalities & Technologies. This self-paced course includes information about the different course modalities offered at UW-Green Bay, as well as the technologies you might use for teaching in each one, including in-person teaching. This course also serves as the foundation of the Teaching with Technology Certificate series because it provides an overview of our specific distance education modalities and the technologies that will help you to be successful in them.

LITE 201: Course Design (formerly called Trail Guides) picks up where the first course leaves off. LITE 201 course centers on developing learning pathways for students. This self-paced course is for you if you would like to explore how to develop courses more systematically using evidence-based practices. Through LITE 201, you will develop two modules for a course in Canvas. LITE 201 is self-paced but offered on a semester basis.

In LITE 301: Course Revisions (formerly called Retreats), you will be encouraged to reflect on your own teaching practices. LITE 301 focuses on the process of using feedback, reflection, and scholarly teaching practices to refine classes. You will, for example, explore scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) literature relevant to issues in your course or to revisions or teaching innovations you are considering. You will also engage with several of your colleagues through synchronous and asynchronous activities designed to support your efforts in reflecting on and refining your teaching practices. LITE 301 is offered as a cohort-based, semester-long community of practice.

Call for Peer Teaching Mentees for 2024-25 (Due Sept. 3)

Application due Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024

View the Call for Peer Teaching Mentees for 2024–25 as a PDF.

CATL is pleased to announce that the peer teacher mentoring program begun in 2022 based on recommendations from the Teaching Effectiveness Working Group and the University Committee will continue with Provost support for its third year.

The purpose of the program is to provide mentoring and support for professional development related to teaching. Additionally, this program can help build a culture of collegial teaching observations. Although now associated with CATL, as before, Professor David Voelker (Humanities and History) will work with up to eight faculty and teaching professor colleagues throughout the 2024–25 academic year. In addition to serving as a teaching mentor for the past two years, David has co-facilitated the UWGB Teaching Scholars program and the UW System’s Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars program. He has experience teaching in most modalities, including in-person, hybrid, virtual classroom, and asynchronous online.

David will work with each mentee instructor on a course of their choosing, providing feedback about classroom practices. He will meet with each instructor both before and after observing a class session. Mentees will also complete reciprocal peer observations with another participant in the program to benefit from additional feedback and to gain experience in conducting formative teaching observations. Participants are welcome to choose courses in any modality for observation.

At the end of the year, the teaching mentor will provide a written, confidential evaluation of each mentee’s teaching performance. The mentee will have the option of including that evaluation in their file for contract renewal, tenure, or post-tenure review but will not be required to do so. This process is different from typical CATL observations which are instead conducted at any time to address a specific teaching issue or concern, not to provide an overall evaluation of teaching performance.

WHY SHOULD YOU SIGN UP TO BE A MENTEE?

Participation in this program will give you two opportunities to discuss your teaching in depth and to receive detailed feedback from a supportive observer. Participation also demonstrates your commitment to professional development and provides evidence that may be utilized in a contract renewal, tenure, and/or promotion review.

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION

Participation is open to all UWGB faculty and teaching professors. While applications from assistant professors or assistant teaching professors will be prioritized, more senior faculty and teaching professors are encouraged to apply to gain experience with conducting teaching observations.
Up to eight mentees will be chosen for 2024–25. If there are more applicants than available slots, preference will be given to eligible applicants with the least amount of teaching experience at UWGB. Up to two faculty or teaching professors at the associate or full rank may be chosen. Mentees will be selected by the CATL director and the program mentor.

TO APPLY

Please complete this brief Qualtrics survey by Tuesday, September 3, 2024.

QUESTIONS

Contact CATL Director Kris Vespia (vespiak@uwgb.edu) or Professor David Voelker (voelkerd@uwgb.edu).