MATH 579:
Teaching College Mathematics
Boise State University, Fall 2009
Homework
1) Write a short paper (but at least one page long) about the best teacher
you've ever had. Then repeat for the worst teacher you've ever had.
These papers should be in Word or LaTeX or some other common word processing
format. Email your efforts to me
at brill@math.boisestate.edu
before class meets on 31 August.
2)
Schedule
for video-taping 10 minute lesson plans. 14, 21, and 28 September.
3)
Assignments
for preparing
syllabi. due 11 September.
4)
Classroom observation questions.
These need to be submitted to me within 48 hours of the observation.
When you submit these, be sure to make it clear who is
observing and who is being observed.
5)
Here is the list of
MATH 143 instructors that you may observe.
You need to observe at least one of them and
email your responses to the "Classroom observation questions" above
to me before class on 5 October.
6) Write a complete lesson plan (for a 50-minute class). The material
for this lesson plan
should include and extend the material that was your 10-minute presentation
earlier in the semester. due 12 October.
7) Write a quiz covering the material that was in your lesson plan in 6)
above. The quiz should take an average student 10 to 15 minutes to complete.
due 26 October.
8) Write a test that includes the material that was in your lesson plan in 6)
above. Clearly, this is not enough material for a *test*, so you should
use other related material as well. Perhaps the best way to go about this
is to obtain
a precalculus book, and write a test that covers the *chapter* that
includes the material of your lesson plan.
The length of the test should be appropriate for a 50-minute class.
due 9 November.
9) Write a course evaluation form that would be suitable for any Boise
State mathematics course. The idea is that the students would complete such
a form near the end of the semester. The form has two goals. The first is
that administration should be able to review the forms and get some idea
of the efficacy of the instructor. The second goal is that the individual
instructor should be able to review the forms
and get meaningful feedback about what he/she
did well, what he/she did not so well, and how he/she can improve his/her
performance in the future. due 16 November.
10) Please observe one more MATH 143 class. Parameters for this visit include
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You need to visit a different instructor than you did last time.
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When you visit, no one else from this class can be visiting at the same time.
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As before, submit your answers to the "Classroom observation questions" found in 4) above. due 7 December.
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