I started teaching about 15 years ago.  It was my second, or third, or even fourth if you count my first job out of college when I transcribed interviews of suspected tax evaders/fraudsters as a career choice, career. When I was in college, although I was passionate about education and its value and the cool subjects of cognition and learning and how I noticed that what we thought of as education didn’t seem equitably delivered or considered for all kinds of learners.  I noticed all of that and had that much passion for it, but I never considered going into teaching.  It’s hard to know why —  when I tell the story of why I usually say that it has to do with my having stage fright (which I do), or that I don’t have a lot of experience (which I also do, but somehow not enough)  I think all of those things were (are) true, and I still feel woefully unprepared whenever I think about planning a class or a course. When I try to create a rubric, when I design an assessment. I just feel unprepared — perhaps like an imposter.  I worry incessantly that everyone knows more than I do.  All of this worrying often makes me quite tired

So if I was going to have a goal for this course it would be that I stop feeling unprepared and realize that the process of creating course content is hard work and it being that way for me does not make me an imposter, it makes me a teacher.  I want to be confident that I know how to design a course in such a way that it reflects my values and empowers (at least some) of my students to feel like that have the power to learn and have, in fact, learned.