The Teaching Effectiveness Program is calling for applicants for their first Teaching Excellence Fellow. They will be accepting applications from senior members of the faculty, both tenured and senior instructors. “The position will release one of UO’s distinguished teachers from three courses during the 2016 calendar year (across winter, spring, and fall terms) and provide a $2500 dedicated programming budget.”

As a Teaching Excellence Fellow, you will:

• “attend meetings of TEP’s professional staff and graduate students during which we talk about issues in teaching at UO and nationally and discuss how to make a positive impact on the campus teaching and learning culture. 
•  have the opportunity to engage with one or more of TEP’s standing programs, such as its annual training for new faculty or its course revision cohort, depending on your interests.
• Most importantly, we would develop programs with you to advance an issue or practice that is important to your teaching.For example, are you experimenting with compelling ways to teach climate change, or information literacy, or quantitative reasoning? Are you developing community-based assignments or experimenting with ways for students to find personal relevance and meaning within your course material? Are you responding to gaps in students’ essential skills—perhaps writing, speaking, analysis—in compelling ways? Are you attempting to somehow re-energize or re-personalize the lecture hall?”

Informal letters of interest (see below) are due Monday, October 19, 2015 to Lee Rumbarger.

Email TEP’s director, Lee Rumbarger (leona@uoregon.edu), with a one page, single-spaced informal letter of interest, which should include:

• a specific issue in teaching that’s important to you and how you feel you’ve addressed it creatively; 
• a brief discussion of why this issue matters, in your view, to the UO community specifically or the higher education community more generally;
• if you already have thoughts about this, an idea of how you might want to address your issue with the campus community;
• your sense of what distinguishes your teaching career—you might have won a teaching award or been a leader in discussions about teaching in your own department; you might have a sense from student feedback about a specific way your teaching has mattered to them;
• why you think you’d enjoy the position.

For more information, vist TEP’s website here.