• Teaching Academy
    One big happy orientation

    The Chronicle of Higher Education | 8/3/09
    Article about the University of Minnesota’s new faculty orientation program, inspired by Faculty Fellows in UAA’s Teaching Academy.

    The Dream Team

    Columns Magazine | 6/16/09
    The seven recipients of this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards represent the broadest range of disciplines, from English to maxillofacial surgery. But they all have one thing in common: the ability to hold their students spellbound.

    Class Notes: Smile, professors! You're on YouTube

    U Week | 5.28.09
    Featured in Class Notes: EDUC 402: YouTube Goes to College: Documenting Excellent Teaching and Learning on the UW Campus, taught by Eugene Edgar, professor in the College of Education; Mary Pat Wenderoth, senior lecturer in biology; and Scott Macklin, chief technology officer of the College of Education. Mary Pat Wenderoth is co-director of the Teaching Academy.

    Three award-winning profs provide a taste of their teaching in showcase

    U Week | 5.21.09
    Nonstudents will have the opportunity to learn what’s going on in the UW’s classrooms these days during the 2009 Distinguished Teaching Awards Showcase, slated for 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, May 28, in Mary Gates Hall. The showcase will feature three past winners of the Distinguished Teaching Award conducting mini-classes, followed by a panel discussion with them and a few other award winning teachers.

    Dreaming big: New Center for Teaching and Learning to draw expertise campuswide

    U Week | 5.14.09
    Undergraduate Academic Affairs, the Graduate School and the UW Libraries are teaming up to create a new Center for Teaching and Learning at the University that will draw on the expertise of many units on campus.

    Two new tools for UW teachers: An online grade book and photos of their students

    U Week | 4.30.09
    Now, when faculty now go to MyUW, click on Teaching and then on the "Class List" icon, the list of students in each of their classes is displayed along with photos. All 7,543 course sections on the three campuses now contain photos with the class list. The Office of Educational Assessment and Mary Pat Wenderoth of the Teaching Academy played integral roles in this innovation.

    A historic treasure

    The Daily | 4.28.09
    1973 Distinguished Teaching Awardee Professor Jon Bridgman is the subject of this Daily feature.

    A picturesque way to learn names

    The Daily | 4.23.09
    Mary Wenderoth, a senior lecturer in biology and co-director of UAA’s Teaching Academy, felt that connecting students’ names and faces was an opportunity to encourage student-teacher interaction inside — and outside — of the classroom. The UW recently implemented a program that allows teachers to access student rosters — and students’ photos — online.

    Universitywide award recipients announced

    University Week | 3.12.09
    The University will honor 23 individuals and one team of two this year as part of the annual Universitywide awards program. The awards honor outstanding performance in teaching, mentoring, librarianship, public service and staff support.

    Talking about teaching, twice-monthly at the UW Club

    University Week | 1.29.09
    Members of the Teaching and Learning Consortium will host a table at the club from noon to 1:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday and Thursday of each month. The next discussions will be on Feb. 4 and 5. They invite anyone interested to stop by and chat. Mary Pat Wenderoth of the Teaching Academy is quoted.

    What you don’t know about your teachers

    The Daily | 02/26/08
    Here at the UW there are two types of teachers: those on the tenure track and those on the non-tenure track.

    Teaching Academy Co-Director Mary Pat Wenderoth quoted.

    Beloved professor retires after 60 years at the UW

    The Seattle Times | 06/07/07
    Willis Konick, looking a little like Groucho Marx without the cigar, asks a student to slap him. He prances from desktop to desktop. He rolls his arms wildly, screeching a little. And he lures one student into an elaborate discussion about moving with him to a place called "Easy Vista."