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Professional Seminar in Teaching Mathematics


Course Description

Issues identified from the student teaching experience in mathematics with consideration of various avenues for professional development.

Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate students will engage in additional, more in-depth community studies of the setting in which they are student teaching, will prepare additional critiques of video of themselves teaching, and will study multiple individual students of varying backgrounds. Their written work is expected to conform to higher standards of analysis and will be graded using a more stringent scale.


Athena Title

Professional Sem in Teach Math


Undergraduate Prerequisite

EMAT 4900/6900 and EMAT 4900L/6900L and EMAT 4910/6910


Graduate Prerequisite

EMAT 4900/6900 and EMAT 4900L/6900L and EMAT 4910/6910


Undergraduate Corequisite

EMAT 5460/7460 or EMAT 5460H or EMAT 5700


Graduate Corequisite

EMAT 5460/7460 or EMAT 7700


Semester Course Offered

Offered fall


Grading System

A - F (Traditional)


Course Objectives

During this course, students will * Reflect on the student teaching experience * Share teaching strategies * Visit a variety of schools (urban, suburban, and rural) and compare and contrast unique aspects of each setting * Re-visit topics from prior courses from an advanced perspective, e.g. assessment, motivation, management, cultural diversity, teacher expectations * Discuss the transition into being a professional, from strategies for securing a job to investigating what it means to be a professional * Examine case materials in order to enable students to assess teaching (others' and their own)


Topical Outline

Issues identified from the student teaching experience in mathematics with consideration of various avenues for professional development.


Syllabus