Congratulations to our 2008-2009 HHMI Teaching Fellows!

We are happy to welcome 17 teaching fellows to the HHMI Teaching Fellows Program. The fellows are currently working on their teachable units. See examples of past teachable units.

Program Description:

The HHMI Teaching Fellows Program is an exciting opportunity for graduate students and postdocs to develop innovative and effective ways to teach biology. Each participant will develop, teach, evaluate, and disseminate a scientific teaching "teachable unit" in biology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. This experience is designed to empower participants with knowledge in scientific teaching and to translate it directly into the classroom. Participants will be able to apply their teaching skills in an actual classroom setting.

Fall semester: Participants meet in weekly 2-hour sessions to learn about scientific teaching and develop instructional materials for part of a biology course at UW.

Spring Semester: Participants teach the instructional materials in an introductory biology course at UW (typically a 1-3 week unit), evaluate student learning, and disseminate the materials.

For more information about the classroom teaching program, contact Sarah Miller at smiller8@wisc.edu. Return completed applications to the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching, 1309 Microbial Sciences Building, or via email at scientificteaching@mailplus.wisc.edu.