Ohio Project NExT
Fall, 2000

An Ohio Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) will be held Thursday evening and Friday morning, October 26-27, preceding the Ohio Section fall meeting at Wittenberg University. This workshop will be the eighth since the founding of the Ohio Section’s local version of the national Project NExT for new faculty members. The Ohio Section will provide housing and meals during the workshop for NExT Fellows during their first two years in the program. Others will be funded by their own local mathematics departments. The "headquarters" hotel for NExTers in Springfield, Ohio will be the Springfield Inn at 100 South Fountain Avenue. Fellows should make their own reservations by calling 937-322-3600. Mention the word "Math" to get the special room rates. Activities begin with a banquet at 7:00 PM Thursday evening in the James DeMint Room of the Springfield Inn. Following the banquet, there will be a freewheeling discussion about issues in teaching and professional development.

Friday morning, after a continental breakfast beginning at 8:00 AM in the Li Room on the first floor of the Student Center at Wittenberg University, workshop activities will begin at 8:45 AM in the same room. Leading off will be short "teaching vignettes" presented by Ohio NExT Fellows about experiences in teaching. Following the short talks, there will be two major workshop sessions.

Eighteen NExT Fellows and four mentors took part in the NExT workshop at last spring's meeting at Marshall University. Short "teaching vignettes" were presented by three Fellows: Erica Johnson (Shawnee State University) discussed "The Portfolio Project and Gateway Exam Two very Different Assessments of Mathematical Mastery," Wiebke Diestelkamp (University of Dayton) talked about "Incorporating Maple into a Traditional Calculus Curriculum," and Mark Miller (Marietta College) described "My Favorite Matrices." There were two major workshop sessions. Joe Diestel (Kent State University) presented a workshop titled "Staying Alive" and Mark Smith (Miami University) presented the second workshop on "Math Majors: Where Have They All Gone, and How Do We Start Getting Them Back?"

There are now more than thirty Ohio NExT Fellows, and about half are also national NExTer's. To be eligible, the only requirements are that a faculty member be in his or her first year of teaching in Ohio and have a strong commitment to teaching undergraduates. Applications for new Ohio NExT Fellows are now being accepted. Details and application materials can be found on the Ohio Section web page, or from John Holcomb (Cleveland State University), E-mail: jph422@yahoo.com.

[Barbara Ashton]

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July 31, 2000