ABSTRACT
This involves the myriad contexts in which the core concepts of your discipline can be found, the analogies to common experience that help students grapple with the complexity, and the images and memory tools that help them hold the different pieces of the concept accurately and actively in their minds. Bain holds that the best teachers know their discipline inside and out (2004). I learned more about my discipline in the first five years of teaching than I did in eight years of graduate school. As hard as it may be for young scholars to accept, they still have a great deal to learn about how to communicate their discipline to nonspecialist audiences. The students are not there to be a fawning audience to your learning. They are there to learn for themselves.
