9 Jul
2005
9 Jul
'05
9:42 p.m.
Derek,
I've had good luck using some of the BCCase Case Studies with
the pre-service teachers here at BC. The discussion of Emily's
Test opened their eyes to the constraints and responsibilities
of being a faculty member, sometimes a non-obvious transition
for young TAs, and allowed us to talk about campus cheating
policy. It is not math specific, so you could use it in other
departments too. Making the Grade was useful in bringing
up issues related to grading. Some of the other cases about
the experiences of recitation instructors were also relevant.
The best of luck,
Sol
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PSTUM-List,
It's been a couple of months since we've had any traffic on the list,
and I attribute that to the busyness of the end of the semester. Now
that it's summer, I'm hoping folks will have more time to contribute to
the list. Here's a question to get things started:
The preceptor group at Harvard is in the middle of designing a seminar
for our "pre-service" TAs -- graduate students who haven't taught yet,
but will be teaching calculus sections soon. It will be either a
semester- or year-long seminar featuring presentations/discussions led
by preceptors on various topics (lesson planning, presentation skills,
understanding student misconceptions, managing interactive classrooms)
as well as practicum components (observation of other teachers,
tutoring
in our math help center, guest-lecturing a few times in an actual
class).
They have some good ideas for structure and content of this seminar,
but
I'm eager to hear your experiences with similar courses or seminars.
Have you been involved in something like this? If so, what has worked
well? What pitfalls should they look out for?
Thanks in advance for your contributions!
Derek
(By the way, the reason I speak here of the Harvard preceptor group in
the third person is that I have recently taken an assistant director
position at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. In this
role, I will be working with many departments on faculty and TA
development issues, not just mathematics departments. However, I plan
to continue the PSTUM list, and I hope it can continue to bring people
together with similar interests.)
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Derek Bruff, Assistant Director
Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University
Email: derek.bruff(a)vanderbilt.edu
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10 Jul
8:50 p.m.
New subject: Pre-Service Courses for TAs
Great to hear that the list is active again. BC Case Studies certainly are
a resource that we use here at Cornell with our pre-service TAs in our
start up training (and in our elective on going teaching seminar too).
Our four day start-of-their-career, once-in-a-lifetime, mandatory training
includes a number a components that may or may not be novel- I'm hoping to
find out when I sahre some of what we do at Mathfest in a few weeks. I
encourage anyone who will be at Mathfest to bring copies of materials you
use in TA training to the TA Training Workshop, that will be held there,
Thursday August 4th. Eilieen Shugart and I are facilitating it and hope to
put together, a "what we learned from our friends and colleagues who
conduct TA Training" . We plan to have some complementary copies of the BC
Case studies on hand, too. http://www.maa.org/mathfest/mf05_maas.html
Maria
At 09:42 PM 7/9/2005 -0400, you wrote:
Derek,
I've had good luck using some of the BCCase Case Studies with
the pre-service teachers here at BC. The discussion of Emily's
Test opened their eyes to the constraints and responsibilities
of being a faculty member, sometimes a non-obvious transition
for young TAs, and allowed us to talk about campus cheating
policy. It is not math specific, so you could use it in other
departments too. Making the Grade was useful in bringing
up issues related to grading. Some of the other cases about
the experiences of recitation instructors were also relevant.
The best of luck,
Sol
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PSTUM-List,
It's been a couple of months since we've had any traffic on the list,
and I attribute that to the busyness of the end of the semester. Now
that it's summer, I'm hoping folks will have more time to contribute to
the list. Here's a question to get things started:
The preceptor group at Harvard is in the middle of designing a seminar
for our "pre-service" TAs -- graduate students who haven't taught yet,
but will be teaching calculus sections soon. It will be either a
semester- or year-long seminar featuring presentations/discussions led
by preceptors on various topics (lesson planning, presentation skills,
understanding student misconceptions, managing interactive classrooms)
as well as practicum components (observation of other teachers,
tutoring
in our math help center, guest-lecturing a few times in an actual
class).
They have some good ideas for structure and content of this seminar,
but
I'm eager to hear your experiences with similar courses or seminars.
Have you been involved in something like this? If so, what has worked
well? What pitfalls should they look out for?
Thanks in advance for your contributions!
Derek
(By the way, the reason I speak here of the Harvard preceptor group in
the third person is that I have recently taken an assistant director
position at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. In this
role, I will be working with many departments on faculty and TA
development issues, not just mathematics departments. However, I plan
to continue the PSTUM list, and I hope it can continue to bring people
together with similar interests.)
--
Derek Bruff, Assistant Director
Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University
Email: derek.bruff(a)vanderbilt.edu
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