Program Offerings:

Expeditions in Learning
Dates: Spring 2010
Facilitator: TBA

Course Description: This program provides you with the opportunity to explore how teaching and learning is done in other departments on campus, to visit parts of campus you've not yet discovered, explore new aspects of the UW learning community, and connect your expeditions to your teaching in a bi-weekly instructive small group setting. The Expeditions in Learning program is designed to help bring graduate students, faculty, post-docs, and staff into the discussions, experiences, and diverse learning activities on our campus to broaden our collective understandings about each other.

Small group meetings are held once every two weeks for 90 minutes throughout the semester. During the off weeks between group meetings, participants venture out on campus “expeditions” to explore learning situations and academic life in ways they have rarely or never experienced before.

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Research Mentoring Seminar for Faculty

Dates: Spring 2010
Instructor: TBA
Location: To be announced

Course Description:

• Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your mentoring
• Help provide your mentees with a better research experience
• Improve your mentees' research productivity
• Reduce your frustration in mentoring

Creating a Collaborative Learning Environment (CCLE)
Dates: Fall 2009 and Spring 2010
Instructors: To be announced...
Course Description: CCLE is an opportunity for you to collaboratively explore the learning process and its implications for your teaching with a small group of colleagues who meet weekly throughout the academic year.This year there are three options for CCLE:

1) a group for faculty and staff,
2) a group for graduate students and postdocs, and
3) a mixed group for everyone. 

Internship Program

The Delta Internship Program gives participants practical experiences through which they can develop their skills and interests in teaching and learning, interns work in partnership with a faculty or instructional staff member either on the UW-Madison campus, or in another institutional setting. Interns and partners define a teaching and learning problem, devise, implement, and evaluate a solution, as well as create a product that will be incorporated into their teaching portfolios.

The Internship Program seminar runs concurrent with participant internship experiences. The seminar aims to build an intern learning community within Delta; to provide peer feedback on teaching activities; and to help participants reflect and translate their experiences into their teaching portfolio.

Dates: Day and time to be determined based on availability of participants
Instructors: To be announced...

Certificate Program

The Delta Certificate in Research, Teaching, and Learning confers recognition of a student’s achievement including the following:

• Experience in teaching, broadly defined to include the college classroom and beyond (i.e. informal educational settings).
• Awareness of how to promote successful learning with diverse participants.
• Knowledge of foundational research and scholarship on teaching and learning.
• Demonstrated application of research skills to the improvement of participant learning.
• Engaged membership in a learning community that is focused on teaching and learning.
• Development of a reflective teaching and learning portfolio