Week | Date |
Topic/Materials |
Homework due |
0 | See the orientation page. |
1 | Wed Aug 27 |
- Questions, Problems, and Venting.
- Course themes:
- Tools and knowledge you can immediately
use in the classroom.
-
Skill and attitude development for your teaching career.
- Skills useful for any profession.
- Set up your class in Blackboard
- login,
select the class you teach.
- Select
"Information", "Build Content", "Item". Put in your
contact information, office location, office hours,
etc. If you are teaching a coordinated course, link
to its main page.
- Make the course available to the students.
- (optional) Set up the grade center
to display test (or other) grades.
(Further support)
- Homework for next week.
- Explore your classlist:
- Log into the
Faculty and Advising Center; select "Teaching", "Class list and Grading".
- Hit the people icon by your class to get the
classlist.
- Click the magnifying glass icon by a
person to get more info and a little picture. Click
the picture to get a bigger one. (There is no good
way to get a photo gallery of your class.)
- Try out the "PDF listing", "PDF", and "Excel" buttons.
- ConnectMath practice
|
orientation evaluation |
2 | Wed Sep 3 |
- Questions, Problems, and Venting.
- Homework for next week.
Who are your students?
Making adjustments:
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Peer observation
(.tex) |
3 | Wed Sep 10 |
- Questions, Problems, and Venting.
Tests:
- Design:
- Homework for next week.
- Grading Logistics:
- How can you make sure the grading is consistent for
students in different classes?
- How can you make sure the grading is consistent for
different students in your class?
- MAA Handbook advice on
Grading Issues.
Assessment policies and problems:
- Should you drop the lowest test/quiz/homework?
- Should you give extra credit?
- When should you allow make-up tests/quizzes?
- How can you reduce cheating?
- What do you do if you think a student is cheating?
Alternative Assessments:
|
Mathematical and
pedagogical autobiography
(.tex)
|
4 | Wed Sep 17 |
- Questions, Problems, and Venting.
- Homework for next week.
(Featuring Jenny Klein,
Assistant Dean of Student Persistence and Success)
Intervening:
- Tips for retention:
- If someone gets below a C on anything, tell them
they have to come see you in their office
hours.
- If a student misses more than one class period,
call their cell phone (?or email first)
and ask them if they are OK.
- Develop a buddy system for attendance --
have students introduce themselves to each other
on the first day, and then when someone is gone
ask their buddy where they are and why they are
missing and to try to track the person down if
they haven't heard from them.
- The Ohio University Academic Advancement Center
offers Supplemental
Instruction and a Math
Center.
- The Allen Student Advising Center can help students who are academically adrift.
If a student disappears from your class or is beyond
your ability to help, submit an
Academic Alert.
- If you think a student may need accomodation due to
a disability, refer them to Student Accessibility Services.
- If you think a student may be a danger to themselves or
others, report
them.
- If you observe sexual misconduct you are
required to report it;
further
guidance.
- Study skills vary and matter:
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Design a test
(.tex)
|
5 | Wed Sep 24 |
- Questions, Problems, and Venting.
- Homework for next week.
Writing mathematics with \(\LaTeX\)
|
Peer observation
(.tex) |
6 | Wed Oct 1 |
- Questions, Problems, and Venting.
Active learning
- Why do it?
- How to do it:
-
|
Make your test from week 4 in \(\LaTeX\). Submit through
blackboard the source (.tex, any graphics) and the resulting
.pdf file.
|
7 | Wed Oct 8 |
- Questions, Problems, and Venting.
- Homework for next week.
Classroom Craft
- Own the room:
- Arrange the furniture; remove
trip hazards; remove broken furniture; discard trash;
close curtains; close doors.
- Questions:
- Wait at least 8 seconds for
responses; ask "Are there any questions?" not "Does
everyone understand?"; try using stoplight cards.
- Projector skills:
- Preload content; use
presentation mode; use a large font; adjust lighting;
check visibility from the back of the room;
use a pointer; do not switch back and forth too
much.
- Board skills:
- Work left-to-right
and top-to-bottom; use the whole (visible) board; leave
material as long as you can before erasing; organize
with dividing lines and section headers; write
objectives/outline; write large;
develop board letters; use colors.
- Voice:
- Vocal Techniques for Actors; open your mouth wider; stretch your mouth; warm up your voice; face the class; shut the doors.
- Body language:
- Varies by culture and
gender; be aware.
- Enthusiasm:
- If you are not enthusiastic about the topic,
act like you are. Spice things up (a little).
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Design an active-learning activity
(.tex). |
|
8 | Wed Oct 15 |
- Questions, Problems, and Venting.
- Homework for next week.
Active learning activities. |
Faculty observation
(.tex)
|
9 | Wed Oct 22 |
- Questions, Problems, and Venting.
- Syllabus preparation:
-
- Unpleasantries:
-
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Implement and report on your active-learning activity
(.tex). |
10 | Wed Oct 29 |
- Questions, Problems, and Venting.
Teaching Philosophies and Portfolios (featuring Tim Vickers, Director of the
Center for Teaching & Learning)
- Teaching Philosophies
-
- Teaching Portfolios
-
|
Critique a syllabus
(.tex) |
11 | Wed Nov 5 |
- Questions, Problems, and Venting.
- Homework for next week.
Prep for next week:
Mathematical software:
|
Critique a teaching philosophy
(.tex) |
12 | Wed Nov 12 |
- Questions, Problems, and Venting.
- Homework for next week.
Using the web:
|
Make a syllabus for one of the
Spring semester MATH
classes here, pretending you will be the
instructor. Clearly label this syllabus as an exercise and
not real. |
13 | Wed Nov 19 |
- Questions, Problems, and Venting.
- Homework for the last week.
Doing better next time:
- Student evaluations.
-
- What to expect
-
- What do they mean?
-
- Other forums:
- Rate my Professors
- Self-critique:
-
- example
(not from this course)
- Your Final "Exam"
|
Make your (university) webpage. Submit the url through Blackboard. |
14 | Wed Nov 26 |
Thanksgiving holiday, no meeting |
15 | Wed Dec 3 |
- Questions, Problems, and Venting.
- Final "exam".
- End of semester tasks:
-
- Submit grades via the online
grading system; stick to the MATH
1200 grading scale; for information on the meaning
of odd grades, see the catalog
- Print a copy of your submitted grades and turn
it in to the office.
- Print a copy of your grades spreadsheet
and turn it in to the office.
- Turn the students' final exams in to the office.
- If you will not teach the same course next semester,
turn in your textbook.
- Odds and ends:
-
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Make your teaching philosophy
(.tex) |
16 | Mon Dec 8 |
7:00 pm Final Exam (virtual; your physical presence is not required) |
Substitute summative activity
(.tex)
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