Graduate Pedagogy Course Materials, Fall 2012
This page contains supplementary material to t
he
course texts, which were:
- How to
Teach Mathematics
by Steven G. Krantz
- Teaching Mathematics in Colleges
and Universities: Case Studies for Today's Classroom by
Solomon Friedberg
Learning
How to Teach
- Course
Syllabus
- Honor Code: Wesleyan
Honor Code, Case
Studies I wrote, Wesleyan
Case Studies, Answer
Key, Honor
Code Tutorial.
- Running a TA session: The
Art of TAing, Chalking
It Up, Medical
Procedures for the Lab Sciences, my
lecture notes for a talk I gave on this material.
- Teaching Methods: Baez's
How to Teach Stuff, Garrity's
Teaching Tips, Chickering and Gamson: Seven
Principles for Good Practice,
- Handout
before mini-lecture, mini-lecture feedback
sheet, feedback
for long presentation
- How
to create a syllabus
- How
to curve an exam (Richardson)
- Special
Issues for International Students.
Surviving
Grad School
- Advice: How
to
be a good graduate student (desJardins), Graduate
survival manual (O'Leary), The
importance of stupidity in scientific research
(Schwartz), On
Keeping Your Soul (Baez), Rota's
Ten Lessons, Advice
on
Creative Thinking (Wu).
- Giving Talks: How to give a good colloquium
talk (McCarthy), Talks
are not the same as papers (Tao), Tips
for giving talks (Ellenberg), How to give a good research
talk (Microsoft), What to say in a good research
talk (Ferrell), The Short Talk
(Van Loan)
- Vakil: On
going to seminars
- Learning TeX: Download
for PC, Download
for Mac, Sample
Tex Files.
- Making your CV: advice
from UMN, tips
and differences
for different jobs from UIC, sample
research cv, sample
resumes for leaving academia.
- Making your website: Shannon On
Basic Web Design, Free
HTML editors, Templates
from Andreas Viklund.
Theory
of Pedagogy