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\begin{document}
\title{Biographical File BF-8 for Jason Michael Starr}  
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\section{Teaching Goals}

The principles I follow in teaching are simple: 
\begin{enumerate}
\item[(i)]
Give students clear goals
before all instruction. 
\item[(ii)]
Give students clear summaries after
instruction. 
\item[(iii)]
Give students daily practice in newly acquired skills.
\item[(iv)]
Give students ample opportunity to clearly demonstrate their
understanding.  This includes giving ample opportunity to correct
earlier mistakes and succeed where earlier they failed.
\end{enumerate}  

In fact, good organization is the best part of each of these principles.
I have been the primary instructor for a number of courses, from MIT's
160-student-strong single variable calculus course to a graduate algebraic
geometry topics
course.  

I also strongly believe that a commitment to undergraduate teaching
includes a commitment to developing new and more useful course
materials.  That is why I have cooperated with MIT's OpenCourseWare
project.  The OpenCourseWare project aims to make high quality course
materials freely available through the internet to all students, with
particular focus on students in disadvantaged circumstances and
developing nations.  I contributed course materials for two courses.

The first course was ``Single variable calculus, 18.01''.  This is the
entry-level calculus course at MIT.  All students at MIT are required
to pass this course or an equivalent in order to graduate.  After the
original contribution, I revised the course materials.  I was told by
OCW that my course is among the 15 most accessed courses they provide
(e-mail attached).  OpenCourseWare also included portions of my course
materials in their ``Highlights for High School'', a project to help
high school students and teachers find the OCW content most useful to
them.

The second course I contributed was ``Honors differential equations,
18.034''.  This is an honors course at the lower division level in
differential equations.  

In addition to undergraduate teaching, I also have a strong commitment
to graduate teaching, both within my university and also through
outreach to other universities.
I was a mentor to graduate students at a
graduate student workshop, ``Learning stacks and computational methods
through problem-solving'', offered at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign in June 2002.  I taught a 3-week graduate \emph{mini-curso}
or minicourse on ``Geometric Invariant Theory'' in January 2005 at
IMPA in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  I presented a 3-lecture short course
to graduate students
on ``Arithmetic over function fields'' as part of the Clay Mathematics
Institute 2006 Summer School on Arithmetic Geometry in G\"ottingen,
Germany.  And I presented a guest lecture in the ``Summer Graduate
Workshop on Deformation Theory and Moduli in Algebraic Geometry'' held
at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in July 2007.



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