Overview
Description
Prepares graduate students to become successful Teaching Assistants in mathematics and statistics courses. The activities, discussions, and work are designed to be useful and practical during the first semester of teaching and beyond. Topics include fostering student engagement, selecting appropriate mathematical tasks, formative assessment, reflective instruction, lesson planning, preparing to be a peer mentor, building a teaching CV, and documenting teaching practices.
Units
Lecture2
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Attributes
S U Only
Learning Outcomes
- participate in professional development activities related to mathematics teaching assistants’ duties.
- discuss instructional strategies for teaching mathematics that can be used by teaching assistants in classroom, group, or individual learning settings.
- reflect on how these new strategies and skills will be implemented into their current teaching assistant duties and future instructional responsibilities.
- document their teaching and prepare a CV and teaching statement.