New subject: New (Location of) TA Preparation Resource

9 Feb 2005

Dear Dara,

Nice to see that you are participating in this e-list. Enjoyed your
comments.

I received some news from Rose a while back.  Take care.

All the best,
Louise
-----Original Message-----
From: Dara Sandow [mailto:sandowda@msu.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 2:34 PM
To: Preparing and Supporting Teachers of Undergraduate Mathematics
Subject: Re: [PSTUM-list] New (Location of) TA Preparation Resource

Dear all,

I took a quick look at the various lists of resources identified and 
was struck that they all seem to be college-specific.

Although I've done some TA training (with the Emerging Scholars 
Program, many years ago), I've mostly worked in secondary math 
teacher preparation/professional development. My experience is that 
secondary math teacher educators draw on materials from other levels, 
and even other disciplines, when they seem useful (although probably 
more from elementary math ed than college math ed, perhaps because 
more has been developed at the elementary level).

I recognize that there are differences in teaching at the different 
levels and that TA'ing is different than teaching one's own course, 
but I'm wondering how people feel about the addition of materials 
from other levels (and, assuming they're welcome, what kind of 
annotation people think would be needed re: their use).

Sincerely,
Dara Sandow

At 1:01 AM -0800 2/6/05, Eric Hsu wrote:
...
 Hi all,

I have taken TJ Murphy's list of links and papers and am now hosting 
it in wiki format at

http://betterfilecabinet.com/cgi-bin/ta/index.cgi

I am leaving it all publicly editable (but will intervene if people 
start vandalizing it).  The site has a basic search engine too.

This means that you all have the authorization and encouragement to 
update this site yourselves. If you want to change a page, just hit 
the EDIT button... you don't need to know HTML. Just type in plain 
text into the box. You can mark text  with special symbols to format 
it specially. The main ones I use are *bold*, /italic/, and

* list
* of
* items (note the space between * and the item)

You can look in the Help page or at the existing pages to see other 
formatting options. Or you can type in plain text and let me format 
it later.  If you don't want to edit the page, send me the changes 
and I'll post them for you.

best wishes, Eric

ps. For those who care, there is an RSS feed on the site which you 
can auto-discover or just use 
<http://betterfilecabinet.com/cgi-bin/ta/index.cgi?action=plugin&plugin_nam
e=FeedEH&type=RSS>
...
 --
Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
San Francisco State University
erichsu(a)math.sfsu.edu
http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu
_______________________________________________
PSTUM-list mailing list
PSTUM-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu
http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/pstum-list 
_______________________________________________
PSTUM-list mailing list
PSTUM-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu
http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/pstum-list

RE: [PSTUM-list] New (Location of) TA Preparation Resource