Graduate Teaching Toolkit: Teaching What You Don't Know

Teaching a course or lesson outside your area of expertise and unsure where to begin? In this session, participants will identify challenges that emerge in teaching unfamiliar topics and develop strategies for doing so without sacrificing instructional quality. Our focus will be on helping participants apply strategies related to choosing, organizing, and teaching the course content they anticipate covering in current, future, or hypothetical courses.

Lunch will be provided

As a result of attending GTA Toolkit, participants will: 

• identify challenges surrounding teaching what you don’t know
• describe techniques to choose course content around learning goals and student experiences
• explore methods to organize course content in a meaningful way for students
• develop strategies for teaching unfamiliar material without sacrificing instructional quality

You may register here.

If you have registered for this event, or are on the waitlist and require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate, please contact drakeinstitute@osu.edu. Requests should be made at least two weeks prior to the event, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

All members of the university community are welcome in Drake Institute activities, programs, services, and employment —regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, HIV/AIDS status, military status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other bases under the law.

Institute for Teaching and Learning programming is offered in accordance with university guidelines associated with in-person and remote activities. The Institute will inform registrants of delivery modifications should those guidelines change.