School of Mathematical Sciences Postgraduate Training & Mentorship Seminar

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:

You can use the documents in the folder to help you establish expectations for groupwork submissions:

- Remarks on Tutorials.

- Remarks on Tutorials 2.

You can use the documents in below when discussing assessment/grading of group work.

- Sample Workshop 1

- Sample Workshop 2

By Dr. Mike Whitcombe.

- 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).

- Peer observation handout

- Peer observation Leicester

- Peer observation QMUL

- Observation form 1

- Observation form 2

- Observation form 3

by Z. S. Siddiqui, D. Jonas-Dwyer, and S. Carr. See Medical Teacher, v.29 297-300 (2007).

• Beamer lectures and videos used in a QMUL course: MTH 6132 - Relativity

• Online resources are readily available:

• Sample MAPLE file which could be used in a geometry course.

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.

Here are a variety of academic CVs found using the following simple google search
"mathematics + curriculum vitae + university name" and then start digging!

• People from QMUL: AF, LL and JAVK
• A former QMUL PGR student: LS
• People from KCL: a Professor of Financial Mathematics and a Geometer
• random person from UPenn, a random colleague of that random person, and wow, I forgot I was looking for CVs... (seriously nice)
• You see how this works now

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.

Discussion with Thomas Stead, SMS Student Recruitment and Outreach Manager

Suggestions (You need not be an extrovert to participate and enjoy yourself):

• Contact the Center for Public Engagement to find an opportunity here at QMUL.
• Participate in Pint of Science or StoryCollider.
• Follow the idea of Ph.D. candidates in Mathematics departments at Rutgers, Yale, UConn, Chicago, UC Berkeley, and Maryland by creating a Directed Reading Program.
• Volunteer to walk the floor at the spectacular, new Mathematics Hall at the Science Museum
• Don't just attend conferences this summer: how about a Navajo Math Circle? Maybe a film will inspire you...
• The Royal Institution has a long and successful history of public engagement and already works with the SMS at QMUL!
• Write an article for Chalkdust Magazine, an online publication successfully launched by the maths postgraduates at UCL.