Teaching what you don't know
by Therese Huston · first published 2009
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Everyone in academia knows it and no one likes to admit it: faculty often have to teach courses in areas they don't know very well. The challenges are even greater when students don't share your cultural background, lifestyle, or assumptions about how to behave in a classroom. In this practical and funny book, an experienced teaching consultant offers many creative strategies for dealing with typical problems. --from publisher description.
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…University culture, The University: An Owner's Manual by Henry Rosovsky. For teaching, McKeachie's Teaching Tips by Wilbert McKeachie. For when you get assigned a course that is outside your confort zone, Teaching What You Don't Know by Therese Huston. There are many great books; some universities have their own curated lists. Here's Stanford's: https://teachingcommons.stanford.edu/resources/teaching/plan...
on “Ask HN: Favorite books about being a good teacher/research professor?” ↗…(http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2016/09/small-teaching.ht... ): > Elizabeth Green’s Building a Better Teacher changed how I think about teaching, and sparked some good discussion in our community. Therese Huston’s Teaching What You Don’t Know had a similar impact a few years earlier, and now there is James Lang’s Small Teaching. As its title suggests, Lang’s book focuses on little things that teachers can do right now to improve their teaching,…
on “Ask HN: Why is learning so painful?” ↗