What you say about putting the subject at the centre of teaching is enormously helpful - arguably more so than anything I've been told in the waste-of-time-but-the-uni-is-paying-so-I-have-to-do-it Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice I'm doing at the moment. It articulates what I've said to people contemplating teaching for the OU and worrying about their lack of expertise across the whole course - the job of the tutor isn't to be an expert on the subjects covered (which is impossible for the foundation humanities course anyway), but to help the students understand the course materials they are provided with.

This will be really helpful if and when I get to teach the new myth course, where I feel I could be moving into unknown waters.