Teaching Academy
Promoting, Recognizing and Supporting Excellence in Teaching and Learning

February 2025 Newsletter

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Teaching Academy: Promoting, Recognizing and Supporting Excellence in Teaching & Learning

Welcome to our February newsletter! As you add and remove layers, we hope you find time to read and enjoy this month’s newsletter, which includes updates and multiple ways of staying connected with the Teaching Academy.

This month we share resources and a recap of the Winter Retreat on cultivating students’ professional skills, including crowdsourced resources. If you have more ideas you’d like to discuss with colleagues, please share your suggestions for a Members+ Event. Below we share opportunities to collaborate with other instructors by participating in the Discussion Project. For language teachers, peruse a variety of offerings from the Language Institute on AI, cross-cultural communication, and more. Looking for support in scholarship of teaching and learning? Check out CTLM’s resources and discussions. Additionally, the Clinical Corner contains a variety of professional development courses, workshops, and resources. Finally, please consider honoring a colleague by nominating them for membership in the Teaching Academy!

Questions or comments about the newsletter? Contact Dan Pell & Sarah Pultorak, Editors editor-uwta-newsletter@g-groups.wisc.edu 

Upcoming Events | What’s happening in the Academy?

Welcome our New Members!

These individuals have been recognized for outstanding commitment to teaching and learning. Welcome to the Teaching Academy!

Fellows: Megan Reilly, Theatre & Drama, McLean Gunderson, Medical Sciences (Veterinary Medicine), Claus Elholm Andersen, Scandinavian Studies.

Member+ Events | Help us plan

Interested in helping to plan a Members+ event later this Spring semester? Have a topic (or topics) in mind that you’d like to see as a Members+ event? Contact Claire Barrett Claire.Barrett@wisc.edu to get involved!

Teaching and Learning Meetups

We’ll grab a table or two for informal conversations. Look for the “T&L Meetup” table tents. Come connect with other educators who are passionate about teaching and learning. Bring a question or comment you’d like to talk about, or just jump into conversation at hand. Food, coffee, and other beverages nearby. Join us!

Questions about the T&L Meetups? Contact John Martin john.martin@wisc.edu

 

Join us! Honor a colleague! | The Academy is seeking new members

Now is the perfect time to honor a colleague or nominate yourself!For over 30 years, the Academy’s mission has been to promote, recognize and support excellence in teaching and learning among faculty, staff and students across campus and beyond. The Teaching Academy welcomes nominees who work in traditional classrooms, clinical practice, field instruction, or instructional support.

There are three types of membership: Future Faculty Partner (FFP), Fellow, and Affiliate. Learn how to become a Member. 

Questions about membership?  Are you an FFP who has moved on to another position in the University?  Contact uwta-membership@g-groups.wisc.edu

 

Winter Retreat Recap | Cultivating Students’ Professional Skills and Identities

Thank you to over 120 people who attended the Winter Retreat, to our ten speakers, to the volunteer planning committee, and to our sponsors and partners!  Missed the event? Want to go back over the content? Have feedback to share?

Retreat Resources:

In the March newsletter we will share the captioned, edited video.Questions about the Retreat? Want to join the Planning Committee? Contact Angela Kita & Dan Pell (Chairs) retreats-uwta 

 

CTLM Updates | Engage with the Center for Teaching, Learning & Mentoring

New Support for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL):

  • If you’re already engaged in SoTL or would like to start, these discussions will help you learn more and get support. We’ll demystify the Institutional Review Board, discuss methods and analysis, and more. These sessions are open to all instructors and especially useful for teaching professors and teaching faculty as well as tenure-track faculty. | LEARN MORE

More Professional Development Opportunities:

If you’re looking for a different kind of engagement or instructional support, please contact CTLM with your request – we look forward to working with you!To learn more about these programs or to register, visit the CTLM’s Professional Development Opportunities.

 

Learning Community Update | Clinical Teachers’ Corner

Clinical Teacher Learning Community: Network, Explore, Build. "Furthering Clinical Education"

Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME)

SACME is a leading academic society that advances the field of continuing education and professional development in the health professions. Explore the SACME website, where you can find resources, such as Continuing Education Educator’s Toolkit, information about CPD Scholarship Program, and opportunities to participate in journal club discussions and professional development webinars.

Workshops

The Center for Teaching, Learning and Mentoring and the College Engineering offer a series of 3 workshops related to education scholarship. Any instructor may sign up for any or all of them. | LEARN MORE & REGISTER

Articles for Discussion

Participate in discussion of articles featured in the Clinical Teacher Learning Community. Topics include adult learning theories, medical education and artificial intelligence, building growth mindset, and measuring learner engagement. This online community also offers connections, news, and resources for clinical teachers. | LEARN MORE

Courses

  • Education Essentials is a collection of modules aimed at developing key skills for all interprofessional health science teachers, in various teaching settings.  How modules are utilized is flexible–one or more modules to all of them–to meet the various needs of our teachers based on their activities, schedules, and priorities. | LEARN MORE & REGISTER
  • Updated Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Core Competencies is an introductory course and toolkit for clinical teachers to review the interprofessional core competencies and activities that can improve experiential teaching of interprofessional practice.| LEARN MORE & REGISTER

Registration is free and these courses can be completed at your own pace.

Explore

Questions? Topics you would like to see? Announcements for the next issue?  Contact Marianna Shershneva marianna.shershneva@wisc.edu

Member FYI | News, Events, Training, and Learning Opportunities

The Discussion Project | Sign up for in-person Summer 2025 & virtual early Fall 2025

Registration has opened for The Discussion Project in person coursesin August 2025. The Discussion Project is a professional learning course to support instructors in designing, implementing, and facilitating high-quality classroom discussion. The course is designed to support instructors teaching classes of up to 40 students although many instructors who teach large classes have taken the course and found it effective for considering how to run interactive lectures and how best to prepare their TAs to run effective discussion sections.   | REGISTER

In Person Cohort Dates

  • 2025.08A: August 11, 12, 13 (Education Building on Bascom Hill, Room 159)
  • 2025.05B: August 11, 12, 13 (Educational Sciences, 1025 W Johnson St)
  • 2025.08C: August 18, 19, 20 (Education Building on Bascom Hill, Room 159)

Registration is also open for The Discussion Project Virtual, which starts in early September 2025.  A free online course, The Discussion Project Virtual supports UW-Madison instructors and leaders in designing and implementing high quality discussion. The focus of the course is online synchronous video conference discussion, and the skills are also relevant and transferable to in-person teaching and facilitating discussions in meetings. | REGISTER

Virtual Cohort Dates

  • Wednesdays, 1–3pm CST: 9/10, 9/17, 9/24, 10/1, 10/8, 10/15, 10/22
  • Each virtual session is preceded by 1 hour of asynchronous work in Canvas.

Questions about the Discussion Project? Contact discussion-project@education.wisc.edu 

Language Institute | Workshops & Brown Bags for Language Educators

Generative AI and Writing: A Conversation with Emily Hall

Strategies for Effective Management of Language Classrooms

Presentation of Seeds of Peace: Cross Cultural Communication in the Middle East

  • Adi Raz, University of Michigan
  • Friday April 4, 2025, 3:00-4:00pm, on Zoom (co-sponsored with the USC Center for Languages and Cultures) | LEARN MORE & REGISTER

Second Language Acquisition Graduate Student Symposium: Belonging in SLA: Locating the Researcher and the Researched in a Transdisciplinary Field

  • Friday, April 18, 12:00 – 8:00 pm
  • Saturday, April 19, 2025, 8:30 am – 4:00 pm
  • Memorial Union and on Zoom | LEARN MORE & REGISTER

Questions about the Language Institute? Contact Jana Martin, jcmartin4@wisc.edu

Have something to share? Academy members work in diverse roles and learning environments across our university. If you have news, events, training, or opportunities you would like to share with the Academy, contact Dan Pell & Sarah Pultorak  editor-uwta-newsletter@g-groups.wisc.edu Messages received by the second Monday of the month may be included in that month’s newsletter.

 

Get involved! | Ways to contribute to the Academy’s ongoing activities

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