Where better to get advice about teaching at City as a PhD students than from other current PhD students or postdocs who have been teaching for a while? They have experienced  the same issues and concerns as you have, and so you can learn from their experiences. In this first video, Abeer Elbahrawy, Alex Gilder, Lee Jones, Alex Powell, Marianna Rolbina and Deanna Taylor discuss how to prepare for teaching.

The advice includes what the participants wished they’d known before they started teaching, covering aspects such as:

• thinking about how you come across to students
• how to cope with worries about starting teaching and asking for help (including distracting yourself before a class and shadowing others)
• not needing to know everything, but anticipating student questions
• the importance of rehearsing and knowing your material
• and that teaching does get easier with time, and that the students do want to learn from and with you!