Teaching Fellows Program
Our Mission
We recognize the importance and complexity of university teaching. Teaching requires time, continuous effort, and support. The Teaching Fellows provide guidance and consultation to faculty across the campus regarding evidence-based teaching and learning strategies, classroom engagement and equity issues, and assessment strategies.
Support Provided
Teaching Fellows engage in FRC-sponsored programs and events to include:
- Faculty Consultant
- Brainstorming – Do you have a teaching idea and want to discuss it with a Teaching Fellow?
- Coaching – Would you like to implement a new teaching strategy in the classroom and want to know how to get started?
- Observation – Would you like constructive feedback about your teaching in the classroom?
- Curriculum Review – Would you like help selecting and integrating engaging curricular content in your courses?
- Session Facilitator
- New Faculty Retreat
- Teaching and Learning Conference
- Great Ideas for Teaching (GIFT)
- Teaching Circle
- Faculty Peer Reviewer
- Open Education Resource (OER)
- Online Learning Consortium (OLC) Quality Assurance
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Areas of Expertise
The FRC Teaching Fellows have implemented evidence-based high engagement teaching practices in one or more of these areas of expertise:
- Community or Service Learning
- Problem Solving and Inquiry-Based Instruction
- Student Research, Project, and Capstones
- Student Collaboration and Teamwork
- Student Retention Strategies including Building Relationships with Students
- Universal Design for Learning Principles
- Culturally Responsive Teaching
- Assessment of Student Learning Including Delivering Feedback
- Open Education Resources (OER)
- Online Learning Consortium (OLC) Quality Assurance Process
- Information, Communication, and Technology Literacy
Teaching Fellows
Laurel Bidwell
Associate Professor
College of Public Service
Social Work
- Student Collaboration and Teamwork
- Student Retention Strategies
- Universal Design for Learning
Nicholas Fuselier
Assistant Professor
College of Education
Leadership, Research, and Foundations
- Student Research, Project, and Capstones
- Student Retention Strategies
- Universal Design for Learning
Stephanie Gangemi
Assistant Professor
College of Public Service
Social Work
- Student Retention Strategies
- Culturally Responsive Teaching
- Trauma-Informed Teaching and Learning
Cerian Gibbes
Associate Professor
College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Geography
- Student Research, Project, and Capstones
- Universal Design for Learning
- Problem Solving and Inquiry-Based Instruction
Catherine Grandorff
Teaching Professor
College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
English
- Universal Design for Learning
- Culturally Responsive Teaching
- Assessment of Student Learning
Shannon Johnson
Assistant Professor
College of Public Service
Social Work
- Universal Design for Learning
- Assessment of Student Learning
- Student Retention Strategies
Markus Moeder-Chandler
Assistant Teaching Professor
College of Education
Counseling and Human Services
- Student Research, Project, and Capstones
- Student Collaboration and Teamwork
- Student Retention Strategies
Curtis Turner
Senior Instructor
UCCSTeach
- Problem Solving and Inquiry-Based Instruction
- Student Retention Strategies
- Assessment of Student Learning
Paige Whitney
Senior Clinical Instructor
College of Nursing & Health Sciences
Health Sciences
- Community or Service Learning
- Student Collaboration and Teamwork
- Student Research, Project, and Capstones
Kay Yoon
Professor
College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Communication
- Student Collaboration and Teamwork
- Information, Communication, and Technology Literacy
- Student Research, Project, and Capstones
Submit a Teaching Fellow Request Ticket
Submit your Teaching Fellow Request Ticket to be connected with a Teaching Fellow. Specify the area of expertise that you are seeking.
Submit Teaching Ticket (use your UCCS credentials if prompted to sign in).
Our Past Teaching Fellows
We would like to recognize the faculty members who devoted service to the Teaching Fellows Program in the past:
- Ann Amicucci, Associate Professor, College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, 2022-2024
- Grant Clayton, Associate Professor, College of Education, 2022-2024
- Johanna Creswell Baez, Assistant Professor, College of Public Service, 2022-2024
- Baye Herald, Senior Instructor, College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, 2022-2024
- Carole Woodall, Associate Professor, College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, 2022-2024
- Katy Hudson, Senior Instructor, School of Public Affairs, 2021-2023
- Jessica Kirby, Assistant Professor, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, 2021-2023
- Tre Wentling, Assistant Professor, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, 2021-2023
- Amanda Elder, Associate Professor, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, 2020-2022
- Lynnane George, Senior Instructor, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 2020-2022
- Karin Larkin, Assistant Professor, College of Education Letters, Arts and Sciences, 2020-2022
- Janice Thorpe, Senior Instructor, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, 2020-2022
- James Van Scotter, Assistant Professor, College of Business, 2020-2022
- Julie Albertson, Senior Instructor, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 2020-2021
- YongJei Lee, Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, 2020-2021
- Scott Kupferman, Assistant Professor, College of Education, 2019-2021
- Patrick McGuire, Associate Professor, College of Education, 2019-2021
- Henriikka Weir, Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, 2019-2021
- John Adams, Senior Instructor, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 2019-2020