CASES are 40-60 minute activities rooted in video vignettes from college math classes or office hours; case materials include Facilitator Guide for the person leading the case activity.
Establishing classroom norms and setting the tone for learning in class using various first-class-meetings of instructors from calculus, college algebra, liberal arts mathematics. | |
Unpacking the communication as instructors work with student groups in calculus. | |
Exploring student thinking through a look at one student group working on a newly introduced calculus concept: anti-derivative. | |
Developing strategies for using student feedback - interviews with instructors about student evaluations of teaching in college algebra and statistics. | |
Making the most of one-on-one time by eliciting and responding to student thinking. | |
Strategically selecting and sequencing students' ideas to scaffold whole class discussion - a look at experienced and novice instructor implementations of the same activity in geometry. | |
Exploring purposes and consequences of different approaches to assessment and grading - a teaching seminar conversation among instructors of college algebra, liberal arts mathematics. | |
Orchestrating a student-centered whole class discussion in an introduction to proofs course. | |
Diving into the differences between how instructors discuss mathematical ideas and how their students do - interviews with instructors and their students. | |
Examining students' thinking as they determine whether a particular infinite series converges. |