I talk a lot about education on this blog. Here's why I think I know what I'm talking about.
Huge amount of schooling --
I have received instruction in:
Near 400 (quarter) units of undergrad with 200 needed to graduate.
Many graduate-level classes.
MANY different institutions -- Community College, State School, Private Hardcore Geek School, Private Liberal Arts School, Top 10 University.
2 varsity sports in HS
1 sport for 2 years in college
3 different martial arts (4 years, 1 year, 6 months)
4 Musical instruments (including voice)
2 non-school individual sports
2 years each coaching 2 entirely different sports: 1 team, 1 individual.
4 years individual tutoring. Mostly math. ~30 hours a week.
4 years elementary math instruction in the public schools (magnet school in rich town). 2-3 hours a day.
Tutored with private reading-instruction firm for massive remediation (1st to 10th grade reading level in 12 weeks) -- 2 years.
ESL -- ABout 1 year of work, including train-the-trainer. Some in US, Some overseas.
Homeschooling -- my 3 kids, 1 moderate-smarts dropout, 1 jr. genius (Grad School Biophysics at 16)
Vocational School training -- Think ITT -- 3-4 years -- Business English to Microsoft Office to Java.
Corporate training -- IT, Java, Web, OO -- 10 years.
I've taught 6yos and 60yos
I've taught geniuses, gifted folks, normals, slows, and the mentally handicapped.
I've taught Sports, reading, reading comprehension, math, history, English, French, Latin, sciences, programming, robotics.
I've taught intro to reading: "b. b. not buh.", I've tutored 3rd quarter Real Analysis (Senior-level Math Major class). My favorite software class to teach is "refactoring to patterns", or else "Intro to java/OO for the COBOL programmer"
I've lectured to groups of 50, I've tutored 1-on-1, and I'm probably a specialist at this point at the 5-15 size range, though unsurprisingly, I prefer smaller.
I've taught with no materials, no books, no notice ("can you teach a class in 15 minutes?" "On what topic?")
I'm consistently remembered among my students as an excellent instructor...and I do things teaching that other folks don't even try: "Hey, let me see if we can advance these kids by 4 years of material in the next year and a half"
The virtue of excellence
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