Graduate student teaching development: Evaluating the effectiveness of training in relation to graduate student characteristics

20: Graduate Student Mentors: Meeting the Challenges of the Ongoing Development of Graduate Student Instructors

Training and mentorlng Graduate Student Instructors (GS Instructors) at large institutions presents three challenges to instructional developers: 1) training numerous GSInstructors from multipledepartments. 2) the vastarray ofduties GS Instructors needtrainingin. and3) thecontinualsophistication ofGS Instructors. Here wedescribe howthe College ofEngineering at the University ofMichigan has met ...

Implementing an Engineering Teaching Development Program for Graduate Student Instructors

The Engineering Teaching Development Project (ETDP), a pilot program started by the student chapter of ASEE at the University of Michigan, is a multi-component program designed to improve the long-term teaching skills of graduate student instructors (GSIs) in the College of Engineering. The first component of the ETDP is college-wide pedagogical workshop series. These workshops are conducted by...

The Graduate Student Section

Multiple orthogonal polynomials are polynomials of one variable that satisfy orthogonality conditions with respect to several measures. They are a very useful extension of orthogonal polynomials and recently received renewed interest because tools have become available to investigate their asymptotic behavior. They appear in rational approximation, number theory, random matrices, integrable sys...

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