name, email address, office phone number (if available) and office hours. DO NOT give out your home phone number or cell phone number. Also do not give out an email address other than your utoronto email address. Required text(s). List of learning outcomes: "At the end of this course/lab, students will be able to..." (actually list what skills and knowledge students will acquire). lan out your topics and themes in advance; think of transitions between the topics (what are you actually going to say or make the students do in order to move into a new subject area or class activity?); divide your class into 20-minute sections -- build in time for an introduction, a conclusion and review, and questions from students repare in advance specific, concrete examples to be used in class write down some questions that you anticipate from students and prepare your possible answers Plan in advance how much time you would like each in-class activity or discussion or exercise review or problem set to take. Think about who your audience is: make sure the level of material you are teaching is appropriate to your group of students. IN YOUR FIRST CLASS, DO... Arrive early with all the materials you'll need. Write the course name and number and your name and contact information on the board or overhead projector. or prepare a slide with this information. (Optional: also write in one corner of the board an outline for what you will be doing in class that day.)