Past Events
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Aug 25Comm-B TA TrainingActive Learning Classroom, College Library Register
At the start of every fall and spring semester, the WAC program leads a training for teaching assistants new to teaching Communication-B (Comm-B) courses. Comm-B faculty and instructional staff are also invited to join. This cross-curricular training offers strategies for teaching with and assessing writing and is designed to complement course-specific training that departments provide …
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May 15WAC Associate Director Abby Letak Presents at the UW-Madison Teaching & Learning SymposiumUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
On May 15, WAC Associate Director Abby Letak presented at the UW-Madison Teaching & Learning Symposium. Abby led a breakout session called, “Cultivating Wellbeing in the College Classroom: Innovative Low-Stakes Writing Assignments and Activities.” In the session, Abby shared multiple examples of low-stakes writing assignments and activities from her Fall 2024 course, English 505: Rhetoric …
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May 13WAC Team Presents at CTLM’s Course Design InstituteUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Emily Hall (WAC Director) and Abby Letak (WAC Associate Director) were invited to present on the second day of the 3-day long 2025 Course Design Institute, put on by the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Mentoring (CTLM). Emily and Abby gave a two-part presentation: the first focused on low- and high-stakes writing assignments, and the …
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Apr 23WAC Director Emily Hall & Associate Director Abby Letak Win L&S Teaching Excellence AwardUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison College of Letters & Science
Emily Hall (WAC Director) and Abby Letak (WAC Associate Director) are among the awardees of the 2025 College of Letters & Science Academic Staff Teaching Excellence Awards. Emily and Abby have been awarded the Collaborative Teaching Excellence Award for their work together as the Writing Across the Curriculum team. Dean Eric Wilcots presented them with …
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Apr 22WAC Director Emily Hall Wins 2025 Academic Staff Excellence AwardUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Emily Hall, Distinguished Teaching Professor in the English Department and the Director of both the Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Fellows Programs, is among ten awardees of the 2025 Academic Staff Excellence Awards. Emily has been awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Leadership at the School, College, or Larger University Level. Chancellor Mnookin …
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Sep 18WAC Presents at CTLM’s Teaching with AI SeriesVirtual
WAC will present at CTLM’s Teaching with AI Series.
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Aug 28WAC Featured at CTLM’s Ready, Set, Teach!Pyle Center Learn more here
Ready, Set, Teach! is offered before the start of the spring and fall semesters. Whether you are teaching for the first time or returning, this one-day workshop will give you: focused time to think about your teaching; ideas for new, evidence-based approaches you can apply right away; and connections with teaching colleagues.
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Aug 26Fall 2024 Comm-B TA Training
College Library Register here
Every semester, the Writing Across the Curriculum program at UW-Madison offers a required 2-day training for TAs from across campus who are teaching their first Communication-B course.
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Aug 22Associate Director Abby Letak Presents at Teaching Academy’s Best Practices Showcase2317 Engineering Hall Register here
WAC Associate Director Abby Letak will be presenting at the UW-Madison Teaching Academy’s Best Practices Showcase on August 22nd. Her presentation focuses on a technique for giving effective, efficient, and equitable feedback on student writing called “Rose-Thorn-Bud.”
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Apr 5Teaching at UW – Spring 2024Generative AI and writing (with Writing Across the Curriculum!) Friday, April 5 | 10 to 11:30 a.m. | Union South or via Zoom Learn how to make use of generative AI to design innovative writing assignments and activities across the disciplines. In this interactive workshop, we will experiment with sample prompts created by UW–Madison instructors …