Isabel Longbottom

Isabel Longbottom

Mathematics graduate student at Harvard

Teaching

In Fall 2025, I am the Pedagogy Fellow for Math 300: Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics. This course is required of all incoming mathematics graduate students, and helps to prepare them to teach math at Harvard, with an emphasis on active learning. The course focuses on the process of observation, practice, feedback, and reflection to provide insight into teaching and learning.

Seminars:

In 2024, I organised the zygotop seminar at Harvard, an informal pedagogical seminar aimed at bridging the gap between the Kan seminar and babytop.

As a Teaching Fellow at Harvard:

Teaching Fellows are responsible for delivering thrice-weekly classes to a section of 20-30 undergraduate students, including lecturing and leading the students through in-class problem sets. There is an emphasis on active learning.

Directed Reading Program at Harvard:

The Directed Reading Program matches graduate student mentors with motivated undergraduates who are interested in mathematics, guiding them to learn about a topic outside the scope of the regular curriculum. For some of these students, this may be their first time encountering formal proofs. I have participated in this program in Fall 2022 and Fall 2023.

At the ANU as a demonstrator:

At the ANU as a Peer-Assisted Learning mentor:

Summer programs: