The CTLM Teaching Fellows program offers a welcoming space where you can explore, refine, and reflect on your pedagogical practice. It’s tailored to the interests and needs of instructors in academic staff positions.
In the company of peers and experienced CTLM facilitators, you will discuss day-to-day teaching challenges and evidence-based principles for deepening learning in student-centered environments.
This learning community consists of cohorts of up to 15 instructors who meet every other week over the course of a semester. Some cohorts meet in-person and some are fully virtual.
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What is a learning community?
Learning communities provide opportunities for connection and structured learning experiences for small cohorts of participants. Cohorts meet regularly over the course of a semester or a year, with one or more facilitators who support participants in reaching their goals and learning together. (For more detail, please see Cox, M.D., and McDonald, J. (2017))
Who can participate?
This experience is designed for people interested in learning with and from others, contributing their insights and expertise, and sharing highs and lows from their current teaching experiences.
It’s open to instructional academic staff with any level of teaching or professional experience who are teaching credit-bearing courses at UW-Madison. Instructional academic staff includes the following titles: Adjunct professors/instructors, clinical professors/instructors, instructional administrators, instructors, lecturers, professors of practice, teaching faculty, teaching professors, and teaching specialists.
You may join whether you’re the sole instructor or co-teaching, and whether you’re full-time or part-time. Your courses may be any size, subject, or modality.
What will we discuss?
Each session will center on a productive tension in teaching and learning that’s grounded in authentic instructor experiences and addressed in the pedagogical literature – for instance, balancing autonomy and structure in your course design. We’ll explore each tension in a spirit of curiosity and inquiry: our goals are to honor instructors’ diverse experiences and perspectives, and to foster discussion and reflection rather than presenting a simplistic solution.
Benefits
- Inspiration from a community of peers invested in their teaching practice
- Dedicated time and space to reflect on your teaching
- Connections with campus experts who specialize in pedagogy and student success
- A safe space to discuss challenges and celebrate teaching victories
You’ll learn about:
- The research behind equitable, inclusive course and assignment design
- Students’ experiences at UW–Madison
- Models and strategies for providing efficient, growth-oriented feedback to students
- And more!
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Applications have closed for Spring 2025. Click the button below to be notified when applications open for Fall 2025.