Announcing UW-Green Bay’s Teaching Scholars for 2011-12

Co-directors of the Teaching Scholars Program, Profs. Aeron Haynie and Angela Bauer-Dantoin, have selected the UW-Green Bay Teaching Scholars for the 2011-2012 academic year. These scholars were chosen on the basis of their teaching excellence and their projects’ potential to impact student learning across campus. Below is a brief description of their teaching projects:

• Gaurav Bansal (Business Administration) will investigate best practices for teaching first-generation college students.

• Franklin Chen (Chemistry, NAS) is working on ways to incorporate more math (calculus and partial differential equations) into his Physical Chemistry courses.

• Amanda Nelson (Human Biology) is working on implementing webcasts of key concepts into her Anatomy and Physiology course.

• Alma Rodriguez Estrada (NAS) plans to develop new collaborative learning techniques for her Conservation of Natural Resources course.

• Melissa Schnurr (Human Development) will compare hybrid and face-to-face formats for her Infancy and Early-Childhood course.

• David Voelker (History and Humanistic Studies) will assess a new web-based class preparation assignment that aims to “guide students to prepare more thoroughly for class.”

• Jennifer Zapf (Human Development and Psychology) and Adolfo Garcia (Communication, CIS) will work on a joint, interdisciplinary project to measure the effectiveness of “reciprocal learning.”

Commented Haynie and Bauer-Dantoin in a joint statement: “We’re very excited to have such a broad representation across disciplines and look forward to a productive collaboration between tenured and pre-tenured faculty.”