21 Feb
2005
21 Feb
'05
12:13 p.m.
Derek --
Our graduate director is a big believer in pizza, soda and other free
food. In an ideal world, bribery wouldn't be necessary, but you asked.
I guess I should introduce myself. I'm essentially a research
mathematician who has always had a strong interest in good teaching, even
in the bad old days of the 70's and 80's, when those interests were
thought to be mutually exclusive. [Two true stories from those days:
In my first week of my first job, another newly hired colleague asked
"You seem to like teaching, why didn't you try to get a job at a
4-year school". The first time my Head nominated me for a teaching
award, a concerned senior colleague asked me if that meant I wasn't
getting tenure.]
After I got tenure in `84, I wrote a teaching guide for our grad student
orientation, and after several incaranations, it currently resides at
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~reznick/ciu.html
Comments are always welcome; I ought to do another version before I
retire. When it comes to teaching advice, I'm full of it.
-- Bruce
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From: Derek Bruff <bruff(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Subject: [PSTUM-list] Motivating grad students
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PSTUM-List,
This year we have been running a seminar on teaching undergraduate
mathematics designed to help our graduate students improve our teaching.
The seminar is optional, and attendance has generally been low. I'm
wondering if anyone on the list has experience with attendance-optional,
math department teaching seminars. What, if anything, have you found
particular effective in motivating graduate students to attend?
If it helps, here's the seminar's web site:
http://abel.math.harvard.edu/preceptor/tums/
Thanks in advance for your help!
Derek
--
Derek Bruff, Preceptor
Department of Mathematics, Harvard University
Email: bruff(a)fas.harvard.edu
Web: http://www.derekbruff.com/
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