The First Impression: How to Prepare your First Session as a New Instructor"
This talk is directed especially towards all of those of you who are new to teaching, but also to everyone who likes to reflect his/her own teaching and learning processes.
I obtained my first appointment as a lecturer quite late, that is, two weeks before I defended my dissertation. But the good side about this was that it gave me more time to observe teachers and to reflect their behavior – both at high school and at university. The concept I developed for preparing my course is the Multi-Perspective Approach. Basically, it consists of the following principles: