December 2022

[TDF Recap] Teaching Tales: My Lessons Learned from CMS

Guest post by Chelsea Uggenti, Statistics & Actuarial Science (cuggenti@uwaterloo.ca) 

Last weekend I attended the CMS Winter Meeting in Toronto. It was my first time attending a CMS meeting and my first in-person conference since the pandemic; both of which did not disappoint! The energy and inspiration that was felt by all attendees – me included – was palpable each day.

I attended the conference specifically for the education sessions. These sessions, and the incredible educators from all over the...

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[TDF Recap] Community Building in Instructor Training

Guest post by Carmen Bruni, Computer Science (cbruni@uwaterloo.ca) 

CMS Toronto has come and gone. With every passing conference, I still find myself feeling reinvigorated and inspired to make our university a better place.

I thought I'd take this opportunity to briefly summarize some of the wonderful ideas that were presented at CMS in the session I co-organized with Amenda Chow (York) and Fok-Shuen Leung (UBC) in hopes that you as...

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[TDF Recap] Training our future math teachers

Guest post by Ty Ghaswala, CEMC and Pure Math (tghaswala@uwaterloo.ca)

This past weekend, I attended the CMS Winter meeting in Toronto, attending both research and education sessions. In particular, I attended a session about instructor training. One presentation in particular, by Vanessa Radzimksi from the University of the Fraser Valley, triggered a lot of thoughts about how (if at all)...

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