A Conference and Workshop on Preparing Mathematics Graduate Students For Careers in Teaching and Advising Undergraduates

招聘和培训美国科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）劳动力的必要性是美国在未来几十年面临的一个关键挑战。由于数学是所有STEM学科中不可分割的一部分，因此本科生在数学课程中的成功是应对这一挑战的必要组成部分。有证据表明，大多数数学科学研究生，特别是博士生，学生，将花费他们的职业生涯的很大一部分教学本科生，包括在社区学院，四年制学院和大学，以及有教学责任，而他们仍然是研究生。数学科学教师在博士授予部门不仅需要准备研究生的研究生涯，而且要做一个更强大的工作，为这些学生准备什么可能是他们的关键专业活动之一-本科教学。本次研讨会的目的将是推进和扩大这一问题的理解，准备数学科学研究生成为成功的教师和顾问，并探索各种方案，采用了增强的培训组件，试图提高本科生的数学学习。 研讨会的目标是：（1）介绍和讨论不同的研究生助教（GTA）准备模型，这些模型已经在一些数学科学博士课程中开发和研究;（2）探索如何扩展这些模型，以改进当前的项目和计划，以及加强数学科学GTA的准备;以及（3）计划传播和鼓励全国大部分与GTA合作的数学科学部门采用这些或类似程序的方法。与目标一致，将审查具有挑战性和易处理的研究问题。问题清单包括但不限于：在数学科学中，对GTA的传统教学培训方法有什么好的改进？什么是有效的方法来鼓励和教育研究生教师，包括GTA培训，将促进欣赏和理解的本科教学和学习的重要性，在专上院校的研究生课程？数学科学界如何准备GTA知道和理解当前的知识和技术的实践，通过教育文献的支持，准备各级本科生在大学数学和统计课程取得成功？研讨会的参与者将由数学科学管理人员和研究人员沿着与数学教育研究人员组成，他们将合作探索这些问题，并为未来的调查制定计划。在这个过程中，参与者将研究策略-包括争取领先的数学科学专业组织的帮助和参与-鼓励关键的高级教师成为有兴趣促进研究生参与这些问题，作为他们的整体研究生培训的一部分，并在这个过程中，帮助改变传统的数学科学部门的心态在未来的教师准备。研讨会的成果将包括一份关于目前采用的探索性实践的报告，其影响，以及如何在全国各地的研究生数学科学课程中实现改进的教学准备实践，同时沿着一份行动计划，供与会者在会议上开始改变数学研究生的教学，咨询和指导本科生的准备过程。

The imperative to recruit and train the American workforce in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is a critical challenge facing the United States in the coming decades. Because mathematics is an inextricable part of all STEM disciplines, undergraduate success in mathematics courses is a necessary part of addressing this challenge. Evidence suggests that most of the mathematical sciences graduate students, especially Ph.D. students, will spend a substantial portion of their professional careers teaching undergraduate students, including at community colleges, 4-year colleges, and universities, as well as having instructional responsibilities while they still are graduate students. Mathematical sciences faculty members in doctoral granting departments need not only to prepare graduate students for research careers, but also to do a more robust job for preparing these students for what likely will be one of their key professional activities - undergraduate teaching. The purpose of this workshop will be to advance and broaden the understanding of this issue of preparing mathematical sciences graduate students to be successful teachers and advisors and explore a variety of programs which have employed enhanced training components in an attempt to improve undergraduate student learning in mathematics. Goals of the workshop are to: (1) present and discuss different graduate teaching assistant (GTA) preparation models that have been developed and studied at a number of doctoral programs in the mathematics sciences; (2) explore ways that these models can be expanded for improving current projects and programs as well as for enhancing preparation of GTAs in the mathematical sciences; and (3) plan ways for disseminating and encouraging adoption of these or similar programs by a large portion of mathematical sciences departments across the country that work with GTAs. In concert with the goals, challenging and tractable research questions will be examined. The list of questions includes, but is not limited to: What are good enhancements to traditional instructional training methods for GTAs in the mathematical sciences? What are effective ways to encourage and educate graduate faculty to include GTA training that will foster an appreciation and understanding of the importance of undergraduate teaching and learning at post-secondary institutions in their graduate programs? How can the mathematical sciences community prepare GTAs to know and understand the practice of current pedagogies and technologies, as supported through the education literature, for preparing all levels of undergraduate students to be successful in college mathematics and statistics courses? Workshop participants, who will consist of mathematical sciences administrators and researchers along with mathematics education researchers, will collaborate to explore these questions and establish plans for future investigations. In the process, participants will examine strategies - including enlisting the help and involvement of leading mathematical sciences professional organizations - to encourage key senior faculty to become interested in promoting graduate student engagement with these issues, as part of their overall graduate student training, and, in the process, help alter the mindset of traditional mathematical sciences departments in the preparation of future faculty. Deliverables of the workshop will include a report on exploratory practices presently employed, their impact, and ways to achieve improved instructional preparation practices in graduate mathematical sciences programs across the nation along with a plan of action for participants at the conference to begin the process of changing the preparation of mathematics graduate students for teaching, advising, and mentoring undergraduates.