{"id":123,"date":"2012-11-20T16:06:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T16:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?p=123"},"modified":"2012-11-20T16:06:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T16:06:54","slug":"teaching-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2012\/11\/20\/teaching-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a first-time teacher, perhaps a PhD student who has been asked to do a few hours, you may well find the prospect pretty daunting. The Teaching at Kent blog, run by Kate Bradley, has a series of posts aimed at first-time teachers in which experienced lecturers answer some of the questions you&#8217;re likely to have, such as &#8216;How do I avoid getting overwhelmed by emails?&#8217; Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/teachingatkent\/2012\/08\/27\/teaching-for-the-first-time-faq-part-four\/\">http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/teachingatkent\/2012\/08\/27\/teaching-for-the-first-time-faq-part-four\/<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar vein, my Teaching Centre colleague Carol Newbold and I have been recording a series of video interviews with experienced lecturers here at Lougborough, offering advice (particularly useful for new lecturers) on teaching large groups. The interviews include this <a title=\"Effective use of Powerpoint\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/?question=do-you-have-any-pointers-on-making-effective-use-of-powerpoint\" target=\"_blank\">clip\u00a0in which\u00a0Howard Denton talks about making effective use of Powerpoint<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a first-time teacher, perhaps a PhD student who has been asked to do a few hours, you may well find the prospect pretty daunting. The Teaching at Kent blog, run by Kate Bradley, has a series of posts aimed at first-time teachers in which experienced lecturers answer some of the questions you&#8217;re likely<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2012\/11\/20\/teaching-for-the-first-time\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[39,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-to-large-groups","category-new-lecturers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}