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Art Dull (510)685-1230 x754
Mathematics Department e-m: adull@viking.dvc.edu
Diablo Valley College FAX (510)685-1551
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On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Geoffrey Akst wrote:
> Nancy Sattler wrote:
>
> >When we hired our last mathematics faculty, we sent pages from a text and
> >had the prospective teacher "teach" a calc class. This was very
> >enlightening. Even people on the committee who were not familiar with
> >calculus could tell when a person was a good teacher and when a person could
> >"put the class to sleep."
>
>
> When we interview full-time math candidates, we do something
> similar: we ask each candidate to present a 5-minute lesson on any topic
> of his or her choice, alerting the candidate to this procedure in advance.
> In contrast to Nancy's procedure with uniform math content, this has the
> disadvantage of making the presentations somewhat harder to compare, but
> has the advantage of revealing to the committee more about the candidate.
> Incidentally, we also ask each candidate to write a one-page grant
> proposal. We think that grant-writing is an important part of the job
> today (as our job ads specify), and this procedure also reveals in another
> way from the oral presentation the candidate's communication skills.
>
> Geoff Akst
>
> Geoffrey Akst
> Mathematics Department
> Manhattan Community College
> 199 Chambers Street
> NY, NY 10007
> (v) 212/346-8530, -8531, -8532
> (f) 212/346-8550
> (e) akst@idt.net
>
>
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