Preparing Graduate Students to Teach Undergraduate Mathematics: A Working Conference

该项目正在支持一次教师工作会议，这些教师参与了数学科学研究生的教师培训和长期专业发展。会议旨在促进不同项目中从业者之间的对话，促进从业者与研究大学数学学习、教学和学习的人之间的对话，以及那些在现有项目中工作的人与那些有兴趣在他们与研究生的工作中引入更多专业发展的人之间的对话。一个平行的目标是为在这一领域工作的人和那些刚刚开始从事包括与数学研究生一起担任教师的职业的人之间提供“代际”讨论和知识转移的机会。三个主要目标构成了会议活动的框架：(I)通过实践和研究相互交流来加强、启发和更新现有的计划；(Ii)开发一个最佳实践菜单，通过一个网站和随后的研讨会进行传播；以及(Iii)为那些有兴趣发起研究生教学和专业发展计划的人提供一个发射台，突出关键要素、关键问题和各种选择。这次会议是及时的，特别是考虑到当前国家对高等教育，特别是STEM的关注。大多数数学科学专业的研究生在获得研究生学位之前都会在某种程度上教书。此外，对于那些渴望获得学术职位的人来说，教学将继续是他们职业生涯的一大部分。早期对研究生教学和专业发展的关注不仅对研究生正在教授的课程中的当前本科生有好处，而且对研究生本人随后的职业生涯也有好处。

This project is supporting a working conference of faculty who are involved in teacher training and long-term professional development for graduate students in the mathematical sciences. The conference is designed to promote dialogue among practitioners in professional development in different programs; between practitioners and those who research learning, teaching, and learning to teach mathematics at the college level; and between those who work in existing programs and those interested in introducing more professional development into their work with graduate students. A parallel aim is to provide opportunities for "inter-generational" discussions and knowledge transfer between people who have spent their careers working in this area and those who are just now embarking on careers that include working with mathematics graduate students as teachers.Three primary goals frame the conference activities:(i) to strengthen, inspire and refresh existing programs by having practice and research inform one another;(ii) to develop a menu of best practices to disseminate via a website and subsequent workshops; and(iii) to serve as a launchpad for those interested in initiating a graduate student teaching and professional development program, highlighting key elements, key questions, and various options.This conference is timely, especially given the current national focus on higher education, particularly in STEM. Most graduate students in the mathematical sciences teach in some capacity before receiving their graduate degrees. Moreover, for those aspiring to academic positions, teaching will continue to be a large part of their professional lives. Early attention to graduate student teaching and professional development pays dividends not just to the current undergraduate students in the courses that the graduate students are teaching, but also in the subsequent careers of the graduate students themselves.