Announcements

• Here is the syllabus for the course.

Assignments

• Assignment 1: Write a paragraph or so on how your first day of class went this semester. (Due in the dropbox folder for "Assignment 1" on D2L, by 9 am Wednesday, Aug. 31.)
• Assignment 2: Visit the class of another TA or professor (not one of the TAs in this seminar) who is teaching the same class you are. Write a paragraph or two on your impressions. (Due in the dropbox folder for "Assignment 2" on D2L, by 9 am Wednesday, Sept. 7.)
• Assignment 3: This assignment is to say what you would write in a recommendation letter for Samuel, the student in the handout "Seeking Points". (Due in the dropbox folder for "Assignment 3" on D2L, by 9 am Wednesday, Sept. 14.)
• Assignment 4: This assignment is to do part (a) of the Sept. 7 handout about designing problems for Terry, the TA in "Order out of Chaos". (Due on paper in class or via e-mail by 1:30 pm Wednesday, Sept. 21.)
• Assignment 5: This assignment is to write a "teaching statement", expressing your approach to teaching or philosophy of teaching, in a couple of paragraphs. It should be a short, preliminary version of the type of teaching statement you would expect to include in your application materials if you're looking for a job in academia. (Due in the dropbox folder for "Assignment 5" on D2L, by 9 am Wednesday, Nov. 9.)

Links

• There is some advice on how to write a teaching statement in this article by Gabriela Montell in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
• There is a nice collection of essays aimed at college mathematics instructors at this website. At the same website, you can find some "video cases" designed for use in seminars like ours.
• Advice and Ideas for the First Day of Class.
• Here is an article that may help you respond to a college algebra student who asks "What is this good for?": Why Do I Have to Take Algebra?, by Elizabeth Stapel.
• There are links to some interesting articles about undergraduate math education on the webpages for previous semesters of this seminar. To see them, go to http://www2.math.ou.edu/~jalbert/courselist.html and click on the links for "Math 5990, Teaching College Mathematics".
• There will be a conference on research in undergraduate math education hosted by the math department this fall (October 8 to 9). Here is the conference website.
• Here is Dr. Savic's webpage.
• Prof. Brooke Shipley at Univ. of Illinois Chicago runs a seminar with similarities to ours. She has some interesting links on her class pages for Fall 2016 and Fall 2015.

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