2026 RUME Conference: Working Group on College Mathematics Instructor Growth
Natasha Speer
The RUME Working Group for Research on College Mathematics Instructor Growth, will meet on Thursday, February 26, 2026 from 8am to 12pm (Eastern Time).
This long-standing working group focuses on research on the professional development and growth of college mathematics instructors. Many current members have a particular interest in the professional growth of novice college teachers (e.g., graduate students in their first teaching roles). The group meets online periodically throughout the year and face-to-face at the RUME conference annually.
Working group time at the conference is structured to involve continuing members and to bring in researchers new to the field through a variety of scholarly activities: exploring and discussing literature, giving and receiving feedback on research projects that are in progress, brainstorming potential collaborations and mentoring relationships for long- and short-term studies, and continuing to discuss issues central to the field and ways to address them.
Planning to be at the working group session? Please complete the pre-session survey [follow this link]. It includes places to indicate your interest in opportunities to share your work during the session and to provide the organizers with some information about your experience, goals for the session, and if you are a returning member, recent publications.
General Plan for the Session [8am-12pm Eastern Time]
Part 1 [~1.5 hrs]: Introductions; speed round Share-o-Rama–brief presentations about events and activities since the last meeting; small group sharing of work-in-progress by participants; includes time for individualized feedback (on the pre-conference survey participants request small group feedback table, 4-6 participants/table).
Networking Break [~0.5 hrs]
Part 2 [~1.5 hrs]: Flash talks from CoMInDS 2 project; Activity facilitated by working group organizers.
Wrap-up [~0.5 hrs]: Discussion of current work and coordination of future research (with and beyond work with TAs). Update on funded/large projects (CoMInDS, Peer-mentoring, etc.). Networking wrap-up/next steps for online meetings. Promotional information on related RUME presentations.
Click here to view a more detailed description of this working group.
Natasha for The Organizers