Speaker: 

Assistant Professor Sarah Frey

Institution: 

University of Connecticut

Time: 

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 - 2:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

Often new teachers and tutors are given extensive training on general ideas and principles of good teaching. There may be little or no link between these ideas and the logistics of how to implement them within the courses they will be teaching/assisting.

In teaching a recent course for Quantitative Learning Tutors at the University of Connecticut, I sought to design a curriculum which closely ties good teaching/tutoring practices with specific science course content. I will present the learning goals for this course, specific
examples of projects and activities, and student learning assessment. This course contained a significant online component which will be outlined.Finally, I will describe how this curriculum can be applied to TA training
in mathematics.