Twenty-one outstanding graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2022-23 UW–Madison Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards, recognizing their excellence in teaching. UW–Madison employs over 2,300 teaching assistants (TAs) across a wide range of disciplines. …
Year: 2023
School of Education’s Román, Shaffer honored with Distinguished Teaching Awards
Twelve UW–Madison faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators. Those honored have been selected for their distinguished teaching …
Students recognize nine School of Education educators as ‘Honored Instructors’
UW–Madison students living in University Housing each year have the ability to recognize outstanding educators via the Honored Instructor program. Through this program, University Housing takes nominations from students who want to honor and recognize …
Real forgiveness is never toxic, says UW–Madison’s Enright to Men’s Health
Can forgiveness ever be detrimental to your well-being? Enright A recent story in Men’s Health magazine that takes on the concept of “toxic forgiveness” consulted with UW–Madison’s Robert Enright, an expert in forgiveness science and professor in …
UW–Madison’s David Williamson Shaffer, YJ Kim to tour Asia and offer research ‘master class’
Two faculty from the UW–Madison School of Education are heading Asia to offer “master classes” on an innovative research methodology developed at UW–Madison. In a series of seven workshops and lectures across Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, …
UW–Madison’s Enright interviewed in Washington Post about forgiveness research
The Washington Post highlighted the expertise of UW–Madison’s Robert Enright, a professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, in a story that is headlined, “Moving lessons on forgiveness out of religious spaces …
David Williamson Shaffer interviewed by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about ChatGPT and education
A UW–Madison School of Education faculty member recently lent his expertise on the role of technology in education to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article on how Wisconsin college students and professors are responding to the …
ChatGPT could help improve our education system, David Williamson Shaffer argues in Newsweek op-ed
In a recently published op-ed in Newsweek, School of Education professor David Williamson Shaffer argues the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT could have a positive impact on our education system — but only if educators approach …