Mentorship

Each year, the PTF Chair-Elect has the opportunity to share recurring Teaching Tips with all faculty at UT. These messages cover a variety of topics, styles, and methodologies, from brief and practical classroom strategies to in-depth conversations with voices from across campus.

This year’s Teaching Tips were written by Chair-Elect Jessica Toste.

Effect on Students and Faculty of Implementation of a Comprehensive, Longitudinal Pharmacy Practice Laboratory Series into Doctor of Pharmacy Curriculum

Date

2024

Fellow(s)

Ashley Castleberry

Patrick Davis

Renee Acosta

A poster presentation at a national conference describing the Pharmacy Practice Lab (PPL) sequence spanning all six semesters of the UTCOP didactic program to consolidate lab components and increase skills development while aligning with and reinforcing curriculum balance.

The University of Texas Provost’s Teaching Fellows Initiative (Delange Conference, Rice University)

Date

2014

Fellow(s)

Patrick Davis

Jen Ebbeler

Cynthia LaBrake

https://utexas.box.com/s/e4fyxgafnueht6fhxo3e611ha7xlbcpz

https://news2.rice.edu/2014/09/22/rice-to-host-biennial-de-lange-conference/

View the poster here

Faculty-driven Communities of Practice: Implications for Inclusive Mentoring (ASTE)

Date

2024

Fellow(s)

Shelly Rodriguez

Rodriguez, S.R. & Wilson, R. (2024, January) Faculty-driven Communities of Practice: Implications for inclusive mentoring. Round table presented at The Association of Science Teacher Education Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.

View this proposal from July 2023

Gwendolyn Stovall

Current Fellow

Freshman Research Initiative

College of Natural Sciences

Initiative Focus

Mentorship

Skill-Building

Student Success

For the last 10+ years, Gwen Stovall has worked as a biochemist and aptamer researcher in the CNS Freshman Research Initiative, where she leads a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) to identify aptamers, understand the underlying mechanisms and parameters of aptamer selections, and investigate aptamer specificity. As an educator, Gwen is committed to student empowerment and success, and seeks to improve student outcomes by mentoring, teaching, challenging, and engaging students.

Shelly Rodriguez

Current Fellow

UTeach-Natural Sciences

College of Natural Sciences

Initiative Focus

Mentorship

Shelly Rodriguez is a Professor of Practice and instructor for the UTeach program in The College of Natural Sciences. She also directs UTeach Maker, a micro-credentialing program that helps preservice teachers bring innovative, project-based maker practices into their STEM classrooms. As a PTF, she is passionate about improving the career experiences of professional faculty at UT Austin.

Louis Waldman

Former Members

Art and Art History

French and Italian

College of Fine Arts

College of Liberal Arts

Initiative Focus

Collaborative Learning

Mentorship

Louis Alexander Waldman is an Associate Professor in Art and Art History (College of Fine Arts) with a joint appointment in French and Italian (Liberal Arts). Previously Louis worked in Florence, Italy, as Assistant Director of the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti.