Dear Colleague,
The Lecturer Teaching Fellows Program at Berkeley provides lecturers with an exceptional opportunity to foster a community of practice while working individually, or in teams, to build teaching and learning tools, templates, and resources for their individual courses and the entire campus community.
The program supports Fellows in generating dynamic tools and resources for enriching and/or innovating teaching practices on campus. The tools and resources generated will be highlighted on the Center for Teaching and Learning website and disseminated to faculty across campus. Lecturers make outstanding contributions to the high quality of teaching on campus, and the Lecturer Teaching Fellows Program showcases best practices from this community.
The program is open to new Lecturer Teaching Fellows, previous Lecturer Teaching Fellows, continuing appointees and to “pre-six” lecturers. All participants should be (or should expect to be) scheduled to teach a minimum of one course during the fall and spring semester of their fellowship.
Applications for the 2023-24 academic year will be accepted until Friday, September 8, 2023 at 5 p.m. Access the Lecturer Teaching Fellows program application.
We encourage lecturers to take advantage of this unique opportunity to engage with colleagues about teaching issues such as engaging students in large enrollment courses, group work, rubric use and development, improving and evaluating student learning, and integrating technology, to name just a few. Up to ten lecturers will be selected to participate in a series of monthly workshops on topics of interest and presentations of work in progress. Lecturers selected to participate in the program will receive grants of $1,500 each for instructional improvement applied to their home department account.
Please visit the Lecturer Teaching Fellows Program webpage for application instructions and a description and sampling of projects from previous participants. If you have any questions, please email the Center for Teaching and Learning (teaching@berkeley.edu) with “Lecturer Teaching Fellows” in the subject line.
My thanks in advance for your consideration of this program. Wishing you a successful start to the academic year.
Best wishes,
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