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billiesblues82 said in September 2nd, 2009 at 10:30 pm

Depends on how comfortable you are with making mistakes and not letting it show to the students. Teaching independently amounts to many many hours beyond the class period (this past week I spend six hours preparing lectures and reading material to be discussed in class, and twelve hours grading exams and essays). I have taught classes I wasn’t thoroughly up in expertise-wise, and generally it gets easier if you prepare early and read outside of general books on the subject.