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                                          TEACHER TRAINING SEMINAR FALL 2012

Each Fall semester the Department of Mathematics and Statistics will run a Teacher Training Seminar in which the participants explore and critically discuss teaching practices such as policies, grading, teacher attitude, motivating students, and presentation skills. The seminar will meet every other week for up to 1 hour 45 min. For Fall 2012, the scheduled seminar course number, time and room are

            Math 605, Section 5, 1 credit hour
            Time: Tuesdays 3:30-5:20, Room: SMLC 120
            Participants

The seminar will meet on the following dates and times (the first meeting is during the In-Service week):

Seminar 1: Introductions. Basics.
                    Wednesday, August 15th, 1-5pm
                    Summary.

Seminar 2: Preparing for class.
                    Tuesday, August 28th, 3:30-5:15pm
                    Preview. Summary.

Seminar 3: Grading.
                    Tuesday, September 11th, 3:30-5:15pm
                    Preview. Summary.

Seminar 4: Motivating students.
                    Tuesday, September 25th, 3:30-5:15pm
                    Summary.

Seminar 5: Mid-semester Evaluations
                    Tuesday, October 9th, 3:30-5:15pm
                    Preview. Summary.
                    Qualitative data and conflict between criticism and philosophy.
                    What to do with Mid-semester evaluations .

Seminar 6: Exams
                    Tuesday, October 23rd, 3:30-5:15pm
                    Preview. Summary.

Seminar 7: Group Learning.
                    Tuesday, November 6th, 3:30-5:15pm
                    Preview. Summary.

Seminar 8: Teaching Philosophies
                    Tuesday, November 20th, 3:30-5:15pm
                    Preview.

Seminar 9: Teaching Statements
                    Tuesday, December 4th, 3:30-5:15pm
                    Preview.

Participants will include all Graduate Student Teaching Assistants in their first or second year of teaching in our department. The seminar is led by

            Robert Niemeyer, MCTP Postdoctoral Fellow
            Martha Byrne, MCTP Graduate Student Fellow
            Dusty Brooks, MCTP Graduate Student Fellow

Together, they will prepare any necessary material, as well as a summary after each seminar, including suggestions for improvement. The summaries will be posted on this website. At the end of the 4 years of MCTP support we will have well-developed seminar material that can easily be used by us and others for future seminars of this sort. Two more advanced graduate students

            Taylor Dupuy, MCTP Summer Fellow
            David Weirich, MCTP Summer Fellow

will also participate and support the seminar. Any other graduate student interested in participating is very much welcome to do so. It would be very useful to get the input from more experienced TAs.

We are excited to have such a great team leading this seminar this semester! The seminar should be of much benefit to all involved, including trainees, postdocs and mentors, with much practical information for student participants.

This seminar builds upon a similar seminar held at our department in the past (2005-2007?), led by Adriana Aceves, Kristin Umland, Cristina Pereyra and Monika Nitsche.