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.
Fall Internship Cohort
Integrating creative activities into an honors introductory chemistry course to explore disciplinary core ideas
Work with a chemistry education researcher on improving the scaffolding of creative work in an honors section of an introductory Chemistry course (~80 students). Guest-teach on aspects of science communication and peer-review and enact a teaching-as-research proposal on supporting students in exploring how chemistry core ideas are leveraged in modern-day chemistry research.
Work with an engaging microbiology, genetics or virology class at Edgewood College
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.
Encourage engaged and deeper learning in an introductory Botany course
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.
Work with Environmental Science at Edgewood College
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.
Support student learning in sustainability
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.
Connect theory to practice in a fluid mechanics course
Bring your ideas for supporting the connection between theory and practice to a junior-level course. This opportunity might involve planning and guest teaching a lecture, lab, and/or discussion sections.
Hands-on learning with UW Makerspace
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.
Bring your ideas for lecture, labs or field trips in an agronomy course
Help develop activities in the lab or field visits, or for your guest lecture(s) and work with an experienced intern faculty partner – many opportunities to explore your ideas in this agronomy course.
Tackle common problems in intro Chemistry at Madison College
An opportunity to work with an experienced faculty partner at a diverse, teaching-focused institution, and develop materials for general chemistry topics.