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.
Spring Internship Cohort
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.
Work with a flipped pharmacy class to create meaningful learning
Work with a flipped classroom that uses case studies and active learning. This intern project might involve creating relevant and meaningful assignments, and/or opportunities for students to connect with each other and real-world examples of the content (synchronously and asynchronously).
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.
Collaborate in an online biotechnology course
Collaborate to build a flipped biotechnology course
Fantastic opportunity for role in authentic inquiry cell bio lab course
Unique opportunity for a mentored leadership role with the Biocore 384 teaching team.
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.
Gain experience in a multi-section, case-based introductory biology course
A great opportunity to gain experience facilitating discussion sections in a large, case-based course on introductory biology.
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.