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Papers Presented

Pineau, R., Ebenezer, J. (July 2021). Using Phenomenography to Understand STEM Doctoral Students’ Meaning-Making with Discussion Board Postings. Session presented virtually (live) at the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education’s EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2021 Online Conference.

Zopf, D., Özgün-Koca, S. A., Nazelli, C., & Pineau, R. (March, 2020). Developing Pre-Service Teachers’ Mathematics Knowledge for Teaching via the APEX Cycle. Session presented at the Michigan Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (MI-AMTE) Conversations Among Colleagues Conference. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan

Posters Presented

Pineau, R., Dormer, K. (July 2021). Accessibility Amid a Pandemic – A Faculty Perspective. Poster presented virtually (asynchronously) at the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education’s EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2021 Online Conference.

Webinar Presentations

Pineau, R. (October, 2021). Teaching Portfolio for GTAs: What you need to know. Hosted by WSU’s OTL, this webinar was geared toward Graduate Students looking to put together their teaching portfolios in preparation for entering the job market. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University.

Pineau, R. & Dormer, K. (February & September, 2021). Accessibility – A Faculty Story. Hosted by Wayne State University’s Office for Teaching and Learning (OTL), this webinar offered insights into accessibility from my perspective, as a faculty member. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University.

Pineau, R. & Thomas, J. (July, 2020). Syllabi for your online courses. Presented as part of the WSU Academy of Teachers Teaching Lounge, July 8, 2020 (offered through OTL). Detroit, MI: Wayne State University.

Panel Discussions

Panelist for the Engaging Gen Ed Symposium panel discussion held on April 25, 2022. As a past recipient of the General Education Teaching Award (May 2021), I was asked to share best teaching practices with attendees. This was sponsored by the General Education Oversight Committee, Detroit, MI: Wayne State University.

Panelist for Integrating Lessons from Virtual Learning into F2F Classes faculty panel discussion held on September 28, 2021. This was sponsored by OTL and provided a reflection on the lessons learned from the online/remote learning environment resulting from COVID-19, and the current challenges given the pandemic is not over.

Panelist for Leveraging What We’ve Learned faculty panel discussion to be held on May 10, 2021. This is sponsored by OTL and will provide a reflection on the lessons learned from the online/remote learning environment resulting from COVID-19. Myself and the other 4 panelists are members of the WSU Academy of Teachers. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University

Panelist for Engaging in a Mental Health Discussions faculty panel discussion held on November 6, 2020 and January 20, 2021 as part of the follow-up to the Mental Health day. This is to engage faculty in discussion about ways to support the mental health of students and help support students. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University.

Office for Teaching & Learning (OTL) Webinar Panelist (May, 2020): The Virtual Classroom: Supporting Our Students with Disabilities – a faculty-focused panel. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University.

Interviews

I was invited to be the first faculty member as part of OTL’s Faculty Highlights: Teaching Tidbits video series. The 7-minute video that I produced covered engaging students and included an overview of a student survey I use at the start of each term and a few other best practices. The segment ran on October 6, 2021.

As a recipient of the first-ever General Education Award in spring 2021, I was asked to produce two student-centered videos which (1) highlighted why general education courses are important and (2) served as a recruitment tool to encourage students to take my general education course (elementary statistics). Videos were produced in August 2021.

Interviewed for WSU’s Teaching@Wayne segment on Trauma-informed teaching by Office for Teaching & Learning (OTL), March, 2021. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University.

Interviewed for Office for Teaching & Learning Weekly Newsletter with a focus on accessibility best practices in the classroom, November 19, 2020. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University.

Keynote Addresses/Lectures

Pineau, R. (November 15, 2023). The Real-life story of a Ph.D. candidate. This talk was given to the EER 8520 (Qualitative Methods II) course about my experience with the research methods aspect of my doctoral work.

Pineau, R. (November 9, 2022). Thinking about the next steps. I gave this talk to the Math Seminar course at Olivet College for undergraduates. This talk discussed what students should be considering as they graduate, career options, what you can do with a math degree, and understanding the complex job market.

Pineau, R. Accessibility – A Faculty Story – presented to the MAT 5992 Graduate Teaching Assistants during the winter 2021 term. This presentation offered insights into accessibility and encouraged GTAs to employ the presented strategies to make their courses accessible for all students. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University.

Pineau, R. Teaching Portfolios – presented to the MAT 5992 Graduate Teaching Assistants during the fall 2017, 2018, 2019, and winter 2021 terms. The presentation covered all elements to a teaching portfolio including the teaching statement, diversity statement, tips on framing these statements, collecting artifacts, CVs and evaluation processes. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University.

Department of Mathematics New GTA Orientation Speaker, fall 2017, 2018, 2019. I provided some insight into the teaching environment at the university and in the department, discussed several important student services, and ways to get involved in and around campus.

Pineau, R. (October, 2013), Keynote address on Mentoring in the STEM fields for the College to Career Program, CLLAS, Detroit, MI: Wayne State University.

Course Materials (Published)

I contributed an activity to Course Hero’s 30 Assessment Ideas Using GenAI workbook that will be made available to the teacher community, January 2024.

Course Materials (Unpublished)

Winter & Fall 2022 – I created a Canvas module on Academic Integrity that was made available to all WSU instructors via the Canvas Commons. An update to the module was produced in May 2023 in response to artificial intelligence cheating.

Winter 2020 – Created lecture videos for all content of Elementary Statistics course that is available on YouTube in the public domain. Revised in January 2024.

April 2019 – Developed an instructor and student workbook for the WSU Mathematics Placement Exam Boot Camp in 2019. Revised for the 2022 Boot Camp.

Directed Studies/Essays/Theses/Dissertations Directed

Undergraduate

Aidan Destefanis (undergraduate), MAT 5990: Directed Study, he studied logic, proof-writing and its applications to elementary set theory, relations, functions, and elementary analysis, Fall, 2023. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University.

Emily Pastor, Undergraduate Honors Thesis Project, “Deriving a Path for Success in Mathematics”, Fall, 2014 & Winter, 2015. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University.

Journal/Editorial Activity

Manuscript Reviewer

Mathematics Teacher, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Journal of Pedagogical Research

Professional Learning Community Membership

Artificial Intelligence Pedagogy Teaching Circle, offered by Wayne State University’s Office of Teaching & Learning (OTL), December 2023 – present. We meet monthly to discuss AI classroom pedagogy and its impact on and future in higher education.

Mathematics Teacher Educator Community: Michigan AMTE Statistics Education Special Interest Group Professional Learning Community Member, November 2019 – present. We meet monthly to discuss best practices, pedagogy, social justice initiatives in mathematics education, and other topics of interest.

Winter 2023 – present: As part of the WSU Academy of Teachers, I am part of a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) that is using Lesson Study to support Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs). We carried out a lesson on the Sign Chart of a Function with a GTA’s College Algebra course. We focused on engaging students in classroom discourse while covering a rather difficult topic.

CORE-M Grant

In the summer of 2016, I was invited to work with College of Education Lecturer Elsie Babcock on the grant. The purpose of the grant was to improve the content knowledge of special education teachers in Algebra and Geometry (grades 5-12). As part of the sessions, the teachers reviewed concepts taught by myself and instructor Terri Faitel. These lessons included calculator usage, hands-on materials, applications, and overall conceptual review of topics. Sadly, the grant was discontinued at the end of the year due to a lack of funding.

Richard Pineau

Associate Professor of Teaching, Dept. of Mathematics

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