Effectively Teaching Mathematics as a Postgraduate
University of Sheffield
Date : 25/05/2023
Introduction
This one-day conference aims to encourage new and experienced mathematics postgraduate demonstrators to engage students, learn to self-criticise and gain confidence in their teaching. Postgraduates often lead small classes with an expectation that being confident in the mathematics is enough to teach successfully. The sessions aim to give demonstrators new skills and encourage conversations of already developed skills, from structuring classroom expectations to helping demonstrators reflect on their teaching using a toolkit of ideas.
In academia, many successful researchers hold lectureships with little teaching training. We hope this workshop will help postgraduate students transition to an academic career by allowing them to explore teaching and learning issues.
This workshop has been organised and developed using ideas and feedback from the community of postgraduate demonstrators at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield. It is part of the IMA Higher Education Teaching and Learning Series 2020.
This workshop has been postponed due to the outbreak of Covid 19 and will be taking place on the 25th of May 2023.
Speakers
Michael Grove and Joe Kyle (University of Birmingham) Confirmed
Lara Alcock (Loughborough University) Confirmed
Joel Haddley (University of Liverpool) Confirmed
Jenny Hughes (University of Sheffield) Confirmed
Sheffield legends; we've got many people who want to speak to you! So, we're currently all still trying to persuade one another why we're the best person to speak to you! Regardless, our final Sheffield contributors choice will be every bit as good as our amazing invited speakers!
The timetable for the day can be found here or below!
Registration
We want you to come! This will be a welcoming inclusive social mathematics education event and we'd like to support participation from as many postgraduate students and related people as possible!
Registration is now closed.
There is some funding available to support people with financial difficulty participate.
We'd be delighted to hear from you if you have questions and you can write to Fionntan at f.roukema@sheffield.ac.uk if you have questions.
IMA Higher Education Teaching and Learning Series 2020
This conference is part of a series of workshops funded by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), and has been deferred to 25/05/2023 as a consequence of Covid and logistical problems. There are additional fantastic workshops in the 2022/23 series which are well considering. All workshops in the series are free to attend but require booking a place.
The organisers for the Sheffield conference are Brad Ashley, Poppy Jefferies, Matt Lennard, Wodu Majin, Constantinos Papachristoforou, Fionntan Roukema, Dimitrios Roxanas, Rosie Shewell Brockway and Markus Szymik, and is funded by an IMA grant awarded to Natasha Ellison in 2019, with additional support from the University of Sheffield.
Getting to the University of Sheffield
Please see the timetable below. Full details on the day and locations can be found here!
The Hicks Building is around a 30 minute walk from Sheffield train station or a short tram ride. Alternatively there are various bus routes linking the University and the station. More details can be found in the timetable document above.
Address:
Hicks Building,
Hounsfield Road,
S3 7RH
Contact
Please send all enquires to Fionntan Roukema via email: f.roukema@sheffield.ac.uk
