Graduate students play substantial roles in undergraduates’
opportunities to learn mathematics. For graduate students planning on
employment in academia, the teaching they do in graduate school serves
as professional preparation for future pedagogical responsibilities.
Over the past several decades increased attention has been paid to the
professional development of graduate students for their
teaching-related responsibilities.
The primary goal of this NSF funded working conference was to
promote dialogue and collaboration among practitioners, researchers,
and others involved in the professional development of mathematics
graduate students.
- design and provide professional development for various programs to prepare graduate students to teach undergraduate mathematics
- work in or have developed existing programs
- conduct research on learning, teaching, and learning to
teach mathematics
- are interested in developing and implementing new programs.
- strengthening of existing programs by having practice
and research inform one another
- creation of a repository of work and wisdom of
those who made pioneering efforts in this area
- development of a menu of best
practices to disseminate at a later date
- serving as a resource for those
interesting in initiating a program – highlighting key elements, key
questions, and various options