Professional Development Training Materials

Coming Fall 2024!

The Proofs Project is excited to announce that we will be creating "train-the-trainers" professional development activities that may be used at any university that wishes to implement our research-based instructional materials. 

Each activity will be accompanied by a facilitator's guide which would empower and equip members of other universities to conduct their own in-house training workshop for the instructors of their introductory proofs courses. Participants of these workshops (the instructors of introductory proofs courses) who engage with our activities will not only to be trained on utilizing our instructional tools, but they will also learn from the instructional interactions documented by The Proofs Project's research. Such activities will serve as an active, hands-on experience of our Instructional Modules. 

The Proofs Project team members have designed and run a few professional development workshops already. We will be taking what we learned from these experiences and from the instructors who participated to design activities that can be used anywhere, anytime! Here are a few of our workshop experiences:

• 2024 MAA OPEN Math Workshop, July 28-29 & August 1-2, 11am - 5pm ET (virtual)
  • Registration is now open (until June 18, 2024) - click here for more information!
• 2024 Joint Math Meetings Workshop: Leveraging Research-Based Instruction in Introductory Proofs Courses , January 7, 2024 (in San Francisco, CA)
  • Proofs instructors from around the country participated in this 90-minute professional development workshop highlighting our research-based instruction (including video of students engaging with these instructional tasks).
• The Proofs Project Summer Workshop, July 26-28, 2023 (hosted at Virginia Tech)
  • Five instructors of introductory proofs courses from four different universities (Virginia Tech, George Mason University, James Madison University, and Virginia Commonwealth University) participated in this 2.5 day workshop, ultimately designing their own research-based lecture that they then implemented in their Fall 2023 proofs classes.