teaches technical communication courses in the College of Engineering. As director of the Engineering Learning Center, she also coordinates professional development experiences for graduate students, staff, and faculty. She has been involved with several NSF proposal. First, as a member of the management team for the NSF Center for Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), Courter is responsible with a multidisciplinary team for developing and teaching a course for graduate students on teaching science and engineering. Second, as a member of the management team for the Foundation Coalition at UW-Madison, she completed an on-line professional development program for twenty faculty from ten institutions. Joan Kwako, University of Wisconsin-Madison Joan Kwako recently earned her PhD in math education and will begin a tenure-track position in January at the University of Wisconsin-Duluth. She helped design and is currently teaching the course on which this paper is based.

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Authentic achievement requires learners to engage in disciplined inquiry to produce knowledge that has value in their lives beyond simply proving their competence. While college teaching courses provide an important role in preparing future faculty in STEM disciplines, a more authentic experience was the goal of one already successful course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Similar to other courses across the nation, students write a teaching philosophy, design a syllabus and learning plans, and complete a microteaching experience. While the micro-teaching experience is continually ranked as the most valuable, the instructors are experimenting with making the micro-teaching more authentic. In so doing, they are piloting a "micro-course" in which students identify real students, rather than their peers, to teach. This "workin-progress" describes the authentic microcourse, the experience of students in the pilot of this innovation, results from this "teaching as research" experiment, and the current situation of this evolving learning experience for both students and teachers.