Category: Fall Internship Cohort

Analyze data from highest awards committee on impact of girls projects and the program as a whole, and design instructional plans. Ask questions from the data to determine whether girls and the committee are meeting objectives and learning goals. Make recommendations to the logistics committee on process changes to program to improve girl outcomes. Project could also include working with communities to develop education resources.

Work in microbiology, genetics, or virology with an instructor at Edgewood College who also pursues (and did a UW–Madison postdoc in) scholarly, evidence-based teaching.

Work with an introductory Botany course to encourage conceptual, connected learning. This is an opportunity to work with a large, introductory course and promote deeper learning that connects plant structure, function, and evolution. The teaching plan and materials an intern develops would align learning outcomes, assessments to monitor and provide feedback, and engaging activities which focus on and connect concepts rather than disconnected memorization of facts.

Guest teach and get an insight into primarily undergraduate institutions at Edgewood College. This introductory environmental studies course includes majors and non-majors and incorporates engaging teaching approaches such as local case studies and current events. Content might include the carbon cycle and climate or the water cycle and related issues.

Work with a discussion-based engineering course in sustainable building. Your unit might include active learning approaches such as case studies, and would include formative and aligned summative assessments. Example activities include instructor-led discussion guiding students to identify real-world problems related to sustainability, group activities developing potential solutions or assessing existing solutions.

Bring your ideas for hands-on learning in virtually any topic in science and engineering, using a range of equipment from 3D printers to Virtual Reality.

An opportunity to work with an experienced faculty partner at a diverse, teaching-focused institution, and develop materials for general chemistry topics.