Gary,
In terms of references useful for a course like the one you teach, there are
several at the Better File Cabinet's TA Professional Development Wiki
(inherited from TJ Murphy only this week):
http://betterfilecabinet.com/cgi-bin/ta/index.cgi?Books
I have found Matt Delong and Dale Winter's book to be full of useful
material. Friedberg's case studies are also top notch.
Would you be willing to share a syllabus or schedule of your course with the
list? Or add it to the aforementioned Wiki? It would be nice to have a few
examples of such courses in one place to aid others in developing their own
versions.
Thanks for introducing yourself!
Derek
On 2/2/05 5:21 PM, "Harris, Gary" <gary.harris(a)ttu.edu> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
My name is Gary Harris and I am the Director of Undergraduate Programs in the
Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University. In the
spring of 2000 I was asked by our chair and the director of graduate programs
to create a 3 credit hour course devoted to issues involving teaching math at
the undergraduate level.
Early on I helped to field test some of Friedberg¹s case studies and have used
them regularly. I also use material from Rishel¹s Handbook for Mathematics
Teaching Assistants, as well as other materials. Also a significant part of
the course involves video taping and class evaluations of student
mini-lectures.
I currently have a graduate student working on a Masters Thesis in which he is
trying to assess the effects of our course on our graduate students attitudes
and practice with regard to teaching mathematics at the college level. He and
I would be very interested to hear about experiences any of you may have with
such a course, as well as pertinent references.
I look forward participating in an interesting discussion on this timely and,
I think, very important topic,
Gary Harris
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