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Teaching Outside Your Comfort Zone

Sooner or later you will be asked to teach outside your area of expertise. Teaching outside your comfort zone can be scary, but it comes with the job.

Faculty of all ranks frequently find themselves asked to teach subjects that they don't know well. This isn’t simply the plight of Teaching Fellows or newly hired Ph.D.s.

How to Become an Expert on Almost Anything

A key to successful teaching is to have an aura of authority. Generally, authority grows out of being knowledgeable and able to express ideas well.

One way to develop expertise is to read intensively in a particular field. But if you must quickly prepare a course, you must find another way.

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Step 1: Focus on the right questions.
Identify the major controversies and debates within the subject you must teach. But don’t only focus on the questions that experts ask. Frame the questions from a student’s point of view. What questions will excite the student’s curiosity?

It's important to introduce big questions early in the course, both in the syllabus and on the first day of class, so that students see your vision and what they should be able to do by the end of the course.

Step 2: Gather information.

Look at syllabi on the Web. See how those courses are organized as well as their themes, learning objectives, and activities.

Get a copy of the course syllabus and other materials. The syllabus will tell you how the course is organized and the weight given to assignments and exams. Copies of old exams will indicate coverage and the course’s level of difficulty.

Step 3: Ask colleagues for advice and teaching materials.

Don’t be embarrassed to ask colleagues for teaching tips or materials or ways to approach a particular topic.

Step 4: Read the course books and articles before the class begins.

As you read the materials, ask yourself:
• What big questions, concepts, theories, themes, and findings does the reading raise?
• Which concepts or examples are the hardest to understand?
• What advice should you give students before they read the
material?

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