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Teaching Ideas Network

Our recent task force report on  Perspectives on Being New and Teacher-Scholar Preparation  raised the issue of the Teaching Academy serving as a resource for faculty/staff who are searching for assistance with their teaching. The Teaching Academy members listed below are interested in working with faculty who are in search of a solution to a teaching problem. The names, department, telephone number, e-mail address, and a specialization area are listed. This page serves as a resource for those seeking to improve their teaching.

 
 
Steve Ackerman 
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 
263-3647 
stevea@ssec.wisc.edu 
Specialization: Teaching with technology, using the web, large lectures
Steve Bauman 
Dept of Mathematics 
262-0077 
bauman@math.wisc.edu 
Specialization: New faculty
Jake Blanchard 
CAE Director 
265-8227 
blanchard@engr.wisc.edu 
Specialization: Engineering 
Patrick Farrell 
Mechanical Engineering 
3-1686 
farrell@engr.wisc.edu 
Specialization: Collaborative learning, fluid mechanics, combustion, heat transfer
Chere Campbell Gibson 
School of Human Ecology and Continuing and Vocational Education 
262-8611 
ccgibson@facstaff.wisc.edu 
Specialization: Teaching with technology, distance education, adult education
Magdalena Hauner 
Department of African Languages and Literature 
262-2487 
haunerma@macc.wisc.edu 
Specialization: Swahili language and culture, African studies, foreign language teaching, distance-ed. courses
Norm Jensen MD 
University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine 
263-8582 
nmj@medicine.wisc.edu 
Specialization: Clinical teaching
Robert D. Mathieu 
Department of Astronomy 
262-5679 
mathieu@astro.wisc.edu 
Specialization: Computer laboratory development
Mimi Orner 
Women's Studies Program 
263-1785 
mborner@facstaff.wisc.edu 
Specialization: Issues of social and cultural difference in teaching; curricular and pedagogical transformation; race, class, gender, and sexuality issues in education; gender issues in teaching/advising; alternative teaching strategies
Susan Paddock 

paddock@vms2.macc.wisc.edu Specialization: Participative learning, Continuing education, Evaluating outcomes, Learning styles

Benjamin Rifkin 
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures 
262-1623 
brifkin@facstaff.wisc.edu 
Specialization: Second language acquisition, applied linguistics, teaching methods, and Russian
Professor Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Department of Chemistry 
262-0538 
bassam@chem.wisc.edu 
Specialization: At-large
Edna Mora Szymanski 
Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education 
263-5860 
ednas@mail.soemadison.wisc.edu 
Specialization: Generalist
Lillian Tong 
Center for Biology Education 
265-3003 
tong@facstaff.wisc.edu 
Specialization: Collaborative learning, active learning, use of technology in teaching, biology education 
 Terry Warfield 
PricewaterhouseCoopers Research Scholar 
262-1028
twarfield@bus.wisc.edu 
Specialization: instructional technology, team learning, active learning, writing across the curriculum
 
   
   
 

You may also find the following programs and resources compiled by the CALS Instructional Improvement Committee and the Center for Biology Education useful:

UW-Madison Faculty/Staff Opportunities and Resources for Instructional Improvement

as well as the Peer Review of Teaching web page.