July 20, 2009
How to Teach What You Don't Actually Know
Zach is a tenure-track professor at a small liberal-arts college. He teaches chemistry and cares deeply about teaching it well, so he volunteered to teach a new course for freshmen to draw more students into the sciences. It's called "The Chemistry and Biology of Fat." But Zach doesn't know a whole semester's worth of material about fat. His expertise is in proteins.
Codrina also teaches chemistry. But she has been assigned to teach a first-year writing seminar and has found herself
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Peer Review
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Academic Assets
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Teaching
