Lecturer Teaching Fellows

Building Resources for Teaching and Learning

The Lecturer Teaching Fellows Program at Berkeley provides Lecturers with an exceptional opportunity to work individually, or in teams, to build teaching and learning tools, templates, and resources for both their individual courses and the entire campus community. The program supports Fellows in generating dynamic tools and resources for enriching and/or innovating teaching practices on campus. The tools and resources generated are highlighted prominently on the CTL website and disseminated to faculty across campus. Lecturers make outstanding contributions to the high quality of teaching on campus, and this program showcases best practices from this community.

A Non-exhaustive List of Project Ideas

Examples of project areas that can be funded include, but are not limited to, the following:

ways of assessing and documenting evidence of teaching effectiveness
integrating technology into teaching (face-to-face, hybrid, online)
conducting authentic formative/summative assessment of student learning
rubric design and implementation for specific types of student work, or within particular disciplines
designing, implementing and grading group work
resources for teaching a diverse student body
tools that support academic integrity in the classroom (i.e., training tools, assignment design, assessments.

Examples of project goals that can be funded include, but are not limited to, the following:

examines a pedagogical topic within the scope of a course, courses, or discipline, but lends itself to a generalizable resource or application across courses, course types, and disciplines
proposed outcomes are feasible within a year-long program, with existing support from the learning community, and with in-place campus resources (e.g., CTL, Library).

New and Previous Fellows Eligible to Apply!

If you have previously been a Lecturer Teaching Fellow and are interested in this project-based program, we encourage you to apply.

Ten Lecturers will be selected to participate in a series of workshops on topics of interest and presentations of work in progress. Applicants may apply as individuals, or as part of a team to develop a project (tools, templates, and/or resources). Two or more Fellows will be assembled from the selected participants based on area of interest to lead the workshops/discussions. The program is open to continuing appointees and “pre-six” lecturers.

Lecturer Teaching Fellows will meet in workshop and seminar sessions eight times (once a month) during the course of the academic year. The agenda for the year is based on topics the participants wish to cover, and participants themselves will lead most of the sessions. There may be occasional presentations by other Berkeley faculty and staff with expertise in areas of interest to the group.

All participants should be (or should expect to be) scheduled to teach a minimum of one course during the fall and spring semester of their fellowship.

Lecturers selected to participate in the program will receive grants of $1,500 each for instructional improvement applied to their home department account. Fellows are responsible for providing the budgetary chartstring information in a timely fashion. Funds will be transferred in January 2024 midway through the program.

Program-level Objectives

Throughout this program, participants will:

Create elements of a teaching dossier (via the web) as a platform for showcasing their work from the program.
Complete the proposed project deliverable for their own teaching practice and courses.
Develop a resource from the project to be shared with colleagues, enabling the application of the project deliverable across courses and disciplines (where appropriate).
Present their project at a campus-wide event, if interested.

Application Process

Applicants should first double-check their own schedules for the year against the Program Schedule. Participants will be expected to attend all meetings, barring unforeseen circumstances.

Next Application Cycle: 2024-25 Application now open!

Deadline: September 9, 2024

Selection: Applications will be reviewed, and recommendations will be forwarded to the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education who will make the final determination.

Stipend amount per participant: $1500

AY 2024-25 Program Schedule

September 25 - LTF kick-off meeting
October 16
November 20
January 22
February 12
March 19
April 16

All meetings are held on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 2:00 PM PT. Meetings are held in-person in Dwinelle 117 (Academic Innovation Studio) and lunch is provided.