Preparing to Teach

Overview

Teaching: 60 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• How should I prepare to teach my lesson for the first time?

• What feedback should I collect when teaching a new lesson?

• What challenges are associated with teaching alone?

Objectives

• Collect feedback on a trial run of a new episode.

• Reflect on the experience of teaching.

• Define potential improvements to their lesson based on the experience and feedback gathered.

Reading List

• Instructor Training Bonus Modules: Know Your Tools
• Instructor Training Bonus Modules: Making The Dream Work

Discussion Prompts

• What feedback do you plan to collect from your learners during the trial run? Is there a particular aspect of your episode that you hope to gather feedback on?
• How will you and your helper(s) work together during and after the trial run?
• It is preferable not to teach alone. If you are the sole representative of your lesson in the Study Group, how will your preparations for teaching differ compared to what you do as a member of an instructor team?
• How long do you expect it will take to teach your trial run of a single episode?
• What are you looking forward to about the trial run?
• What do you expect will be challenging?

Homework Tasks

Note for groups of participants collaborating on a single lesson: ALL: a task to be done by all collaborators on a lesson; ONE: a task to be done by only one participant per lesson, ideally after discussion with their collaborators.

Note: there is a break in the program next week, to allow more time for these trial runs to be completed.

• (ALL) If you have not already done so, complete a review of the episode you were assigned.
• (ALL) Coordinate with the helper(s) you recruited for your Trial Run, to ensure they are prepared to support you in teaching and collecting feedback.
• (ALL) In a scheduled “Trial Run,” teach (at least) one episode of your lesson.
• (ALL) Open issues on your lesson repository to record the required changes to your lesson that were identified during/after the trial run.
• (ALL) Before the Study Group next meets, reflect on the discussion prompts for the next session.

Key Points

• Key points will be defined during discussion.