Teaching Fellows in Neuroscience (TFN)

We have instituted a new program called Teaching Fellows in Neuroscience (TFN). The aim of the program is to allow interested NTP graduate students to obtain training in teaching while they maintain our traditional research-oriented training leading to a Ph.D. in neuroscience. The program is designed for students who are interested in getting faculty positions where teaching is a requirement of the job, such as at four-year liberal arts colleges where teaching is the primary obligation or at primarily research universities where the emphasis is on research but teaching and mentoring students is nonetheless an important aspect of the job.

We believe that NTP graduate students who complete the TFN program will be much more effective teachers since they will have seriously considered pedagogical practices for teaching neuroscience and received mentoring training and hands-on experience as a mentor of an undergraduate in a research setting. We expect that the TFN program will provide our graduate students with a distinct competitive advantage when they complete their research training and seek a faculty position.

To implement the TFN program we have partnered with several outstanding programs on the UW-Madison campus, the Delta Program and the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching (WPST), that have targeted the training of graduate students and faculty in teaching.

For more information about how to be certified, please check the
TFN Requirements.