School of Mathematical Sciences Postgraduate Training & Mentorship Seminar
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A- The First Weeks | ||
Since one of your activities while a PhD student at QMUL will be tutoring undergraduate modules, it is convenient for you to read the last updated version of tutorial structure, which you can find in the file above: |
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A- Marking Strategies & Study Skills | ||
You can use the documents in the folder to help you establish expectations for groupwork submissions: |
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You can use the documents in below when discussing assessment/grading of group work. |
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A- Assessing Student Writing | ||
By Dr. Mike Whitcombe. |
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- Writing in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics, by J. Meir and T. Rishel, MAA (1998). - Learning and Teaching; Bloom's taxonomy, by J. S. Atherton (2013). - Are we encouraging students to think mathematically? by Dr. Hallett. This essay is excerpted from How to Teach Mathematics by S. Krantz, AMS (1999). |
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A- Peer Observations | ||
by Z. S. Siddiqui, D. Jonas-Dwyer, and S. Carr. See Medical Teacher, v.29 297-300 (2007). |
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A- Technology in the Classroom | ||
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A- Selected Topics in teaching and learning | ||
TAs/Demonstrators often do not receive personalised feedback from students, since our module evaluations do not explicitly ask for this. One workaround is to create your own feedback form and pass it out sometime near the star and/or end of term (depending on whether you want to make real-time changes or have students reflect on your overall teaching approach). Here is a tex file that you can edit as you like, to get you started. The intended output and necessary logo file are also appended. |
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B- The Academic Job Portfolio | ||
Here are a variety of academic CVs found using the following simple google search
My CV is available as a pdf file here. If you like this format, please feel free to use the texfile attached. I have included most kinds of headings and some entries for each so that you can adjust as you need. |
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B- Public Engagement and Outreach in Research & Teaching | ||
Discussion with Thomas Stead, SMS Student Recruitment and Outreach Manager Suggestions (You need not be an extrovert to participate and enjoy yourself):
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B- Working Session: CVs, Applications, Research Statements, etc. | ||
B- Writing Abstracts, Publications, Research Statements, Grants | ||
B- Faculty-Postdoc Panel: Things I wish I knew at stage X of my career | ||
B- Possible Excursion Opportunities |