Program Delivery Issues, Opportunities, and Challenges

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Program Delivery Issues, Opportunities, and
Challenges

• Denise S. Mewborn
• University of Georgia
• with special thanks to the UGA faculty members
  and doctoral students participating in the fall
  seminar on doctoral programs

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Issues

• Intellectual community, networks
• Peers
• More experienced others
• Courses
• Resources
• For doctoral students enrolled in all programs
• Small programs
• Larger programs
• Areas of specialization
• Especially for students on leave

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Issues

• (Faculty need these things, too.)

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Possible roadblocks

• Money
• Human capital
• Time
• Bureaucracy of higher education
• Inertia
• Leadership/responsibility

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Opportunities

• Changes to existing doctoral programs
• Changes to other elements of our profession
• New (?) ideas

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More than just research

• Policy
• Equity
• Teacher education
• Curriculum/materials development
• Technology
• Undergraduate mathematics education

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Modifications to existing doctoral programs

• Utilizing faculty members from other institutions
• Untapped resources80/20 rule
• Faculty not in doctoral-granting institutions
• Professionals at associations
• Professionals in other settingse.g., EDC
• Not just for the final defense
• Independent study
• Shaping a research question
• Locating resources, data
• Preparing a course syllabus
• Planning a professional development workshop

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Contd.

• Study abroad
• Visit
• Short-term
• Long-term

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Contd.

• Shared experiences
• Courses
• Seminars
• Colloquia
• Models from CLTs
• Putting doctoral students on departmental
  committees

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Your turn
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Modifications to existing activities

• Doctoral student/faculty interaction at
  conferences
• e.g., NCTM Research Presession
• Special sessions for doctoral students
• e.g., PME-NA
• Pre or post conference activities/sessions for
  doctoral students
• e.g., curriculum conference

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Contd.

• Mini-courses before/after conferences
• e.g., AERA, AMTE courses
• Doctoral student only conference
• Writing retreat
• NSF has money for conferences
• (see Joan)

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Your turn
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New (?) ideas

• Killing multiple birds with one stone
• Summer institute with multiple fishbowls
• Parallel activities for different groups
• NSF summer institutes in the 60s
• South African research school
• Distance learning reconceived
• Learning communities
• Courses
• Discussion boards

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Your turn
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Challenges

• Expanding the pool of people doing this work
• Ways to involve those who are working toward a
  doctoral program
• Making people aware of opportunities
• Sustainability

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Intellectual community

• Knowledge-centered
• Broadly inclusive
• Multiple points of view
• Multi-generational
• Flexible and forgiving (encourage risk-taking)
• Respectful and generous
• Deliberately tended

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dmewborn_at_uga.edu