Days/Times: Thursdays 1:20-3pm, starting September 4
Instructor: Jess Maher
Location: 553 Noland Hall
Credit: 2 credits (ELPA 502)
Certificate in Higher Education Teaching and Learning: elective
Course Description
The Delta Internship Program provides graduate students and postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to develop teaching and learning skills in real-world situations. You will complete a teaching-as-research project, where you will identify a student learning challenge, pose a question grounded in the literature, develop and implement a teaching plan to address the challenge, and reflect upon the outcomes – to improve learning in a classroom, lab, outreach program, or any other learning context. Each project is unique, providing an experience to reach individual career goals — whether in outreach, industry, or higher education. By completing a Delta Internship, you will:
- Become a more effective, evidence-based educator.
- Try a teaching method or work on a goal that interests you, such as integrating active learning into large lectures, improving student motivation and retention, or designing and implementing a flipped classroom module.
- Be able to talk about something you actually did in your job interview.
In the process, you’ll learn how to become a reflective practitioner of evidence-based teaching, network with other people excited about teaching, and prepare for success in your future career. You will also leave with a Delta Teaching and Learning Practitioner badge.
The Delta Internship Seminar meets weekly throughout the fall semester and supports you through the development and implementation of your project. In this learning community with other Interns, you will reflect on and learn from each others’ work, and share your findings through a final poster. You do not need to have any prior or current teaching experience to participate in the Delta Internship Program; ideally you would have completed the equivalent of one course in teaching and learning to give you the foundation from which to build your project.
Questions?
Contact info@delta.wisc.edu