Your graduate work was on bacterial evolution and now youre lecturing to200 freshmen on primate social life. Youve taught Kant for twenty years butare now teamt... » 

Your graduate work was on bacterial evolution and now youre lecturing to200 freshmen on primate social life. Youve taught Kant for twenty years butare now teamteaching a course called Ethics and the Internet. Thepsychoanalyst retired so now you the Skinner guy are also the Freud guy. In academia it is rarely acknowledged that faculty are often called on to teachmaterial they dont know very well. The challenges are even greater whenstudents dont share the instructors cultural background lifestyle orassumptions about how to behave in class. In this practical and funny book anexperienced teaching consultant offers creative strategies for dealing withtypical problems. How can you prepare for a course in a new area and lookcredible? What do you do when you dont have a clue how to answer a question? Encouraging faculty to think of themselves as learners rather than asexperts Therese Huston points out that authority in the classroom doesnt comefrom perfect knowledge. She offers tips for introducing topics in a livelystyle for gauging understanding for reaching unresponsive students and fordealing with impossible questions. Original useful and hopeful this bookwill remind readers that teaching what you dont know to students you may notunderstand is not just a job. Its an opportunity. «