Charting Your Course: How to Prepare to Teach More Effectively

Good teaching begins with good preparation. But many instructors and teaching assistants are unsure about how to plan their courses in order to teach more effectively.

Charting Your Course is a systematic approach to course planning that applies to all disciplines and course types. Prégent stresses analysis, planning, critical thinking, and careful evaluation and provides step-by-step examples of how actual new courses were designed and prepared. Whatever type of course you teach, use Charting Your Course to complement your current planning.

Richard Prégent has been a pedagogical advisor at the Ecole Polytechnique, and affiliate of the Université de Montréal, since 1978. Prior to that, he taught in the school of educational sciences at the Université de Montréal.

He has advised hundreds of college insturctors on pedagogical course design, both at the Ecole Polytechnique and in dozens of workshops throughout Québec.

He is also the co-author of two guides for post-secondary instructors, one on the use of audio-visual materials, the other on preparing and delivering presentations.