Courtney Wirtz

Selected Publications

2022: A Pilot Study of Preservice Elementary Teachers' Content Knowledge and Self Efficacy Related to Assessing Phonics Based on Learning Modality Chosen, Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (211-227 pp.)

2022: “What I’ve learned in this class, I’ve learned from all of you”: Supporting students becoming qualitative researchers through social constructionist pedagogy., Brill (253-275 pp.)

Teaching Awards

2025: This award is for those who are in their first five years of teaching at Parkside and nominations are made by students. Criteria for the award is the instructor’s ability to support, inspire, and challenge students; to make course materials accessible to students; and to help students in thinking critically and independently., 2024-2025 Early Career Teaching Excellence Award,

Research/Creative Awards

2025: The Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars (WTFS) program offers UW faculty and teaching academic staff a unique opportunity to collaborate with other exceptional teachers from across the UW system and from various disciplines. In addition to discussing illuminating works from pedagogical literature, Fellows and Scholars are guided through the process of completing a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project with input from fellow participants and the program co-directors., Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, UWS OPID

EDU 211 - Child/Adolescent Development
EDU 312 - Designing Learning Curriculum
EDU 312 - Dsgn Lrnr-Centered Lesson Plan
EDU 332 - Foundations of Literacy
EDU 333 - Chld/Adol Lit & New Literacies
EDU 420 - Residency Seminar
EDU 425 - Residency (Student Teaching)
EDU 430 - Usng Actn Rsrch to Imprv Instn
EDU 432 - Teaching Devlpmtl Literacy K-3
EDU 433 - Teaching Devlpmtl Science, K-9