Teaching in WisCEL

WisCEL strives to reach success for all students by creating learning environments in spaces where students live and learn on their own initiative. These new spaces provide individualized learning experiences for large populations of students through a comprehensive offering of formal instruction, self-paced independent and group study, tutoring, and social events which, in combination, lead to confident, independent, lifelong learners.

WisCEL Centers combine deliberate choices of physical environment including multi-use spaces, inviting and functional furnishings, and mobile whiteboards with innovative classroom technologies to create a learning commons of the future. A critical design principle was to envision a space that students would embrace as "their own" place to engage in informal learning, and marry it with an infrastructure that enables 21st-century, best practices for formal classroom instruction. WisCEL supports pedagogies which include spontaneous peer collaboration, instructor-as-coach models, self-pacing opportunities, frequent and immediate learning progress feedback, increased instructor time with students, and international connectivity.

By proposing to use a WisCEL Center as a space for your course, you are proposing to become part of a WisCEL learning community. This includes attending monthly instructor meetings, working with WisCEL and WCER evaluation staff to set and measure performance on instructional goals each semester, participating in relevant grant proposal submission efforts, writing semester WisCEL course summary papers and contributing to annual reports.

**We still have a few time slots left at both WisCEL Centers for Summer and Fall 2012! Please contact Suzanne Smith to find out what days/times are still available for Summer and Fall!**