How can I - Teach anything - Articles about Education

To teach is to learn twice
- Joseph Joubert

How can I teach a subject if they never taught me how to teach it?

Where can I get the skills and information for teaching it?

This is very frustrating. I’ll never be able to teach something that I don't know well enough myself.

Really? Are your background, imagination, and research or search skills that limited?

You have a college degree. That means that you problably already took one or more courses in the subject that you were asked to teach. Even if it is completely new, you should have experienced enough to be able to handle it.

Granted, you are likely to flop with certain subjects, such as unfamiliar foreign languages. You also won't be asked to teach them.

However, you can certainly any subject that you were asked to teach. As a matter of fact, with your fresh and untarnished approach to the material, you might even do better than the professionals.