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[-] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago

How to say "No", there are many people who are afraid to.

[-] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Phonics. The current curriculum is based around sight-reading, meaning students are told not to sound out words they don't recognize. The effect of these have cascaded down the rest of these students' lives, and now we are seeing a wave of Uni students who are nearly illiterate. I'm getting a degree in elementary education and I'm proud to say that I'm going to be doing my part to fix the problem.

[-] clif@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Computer programming and related tech skills. Why? Because I've been doing as a job and for fun for over 35 years and have been teaching it for 5 so I guess it works out.

[-] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Wine, Ihave been studying it for years

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Traditional subject?

Physics, but applicable physics. Not just the boring memorization of formulae to do math with. Stress on beams like you might calculate for a building structure. Heat generated on a electrical transmission wire causing it to sag. How thrust and mass interact to put a satellite in orbit. Stuff that could be applied in a job or just be really interesting to figure out.

[-] Deello@lemm.ee 5 points 22 hours ago

Finance, credit, investing, retirement, savings. How money works. I've worked with way too many younger folks that don't know anything about finance.

[-] fool@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 12 hours ago

I had that opportunity once. But

"Nah, I want to get a feel for the market first, ya know? That's why I'm investing short-term for now -- I'll do long-term later."

VT ain't as hip as Nvidia options, eh?

[-] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I grew up around finance people. I recall one guy at church, who used to run the Bank of NY, telling a bunch if us after the 1987 crash that he didn't get why so many people under 65 were freaking out as their investments weren't getting cashed in any time soon. It gave me perspective on how that race is run.

[-] Corno@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago

Physics. Sometimes I can't resist nerding out about it and teaching it to others! I didn't get the title of "physics girl" in school for nothing haha.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 15 hours ago

I'm actually starting physics right now, new best friend.

[-] PostnataleAbtreibung@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

How to adult.

Basically how to choose your internet and phone provider, compare the contracts etc. Same with power supplier. How to choose from the different suppliers and the impact of base price with the price per unit (and when it makes sense to choose a higher line price when the power price per unit is cheaper).

Insurance. Regulations for the driving license (like if you study and still are registered at home, you might have a hard time to make your license at your study place).

And all nitty picky things you have to remember when you grow up and rent your own place.

As well as learning and working contracts. Like how many vacation days are mandatory and what is usual.

Edit: If and how you do taxes. When they are mandatory and when they are optional.

Well, i guess you get the point. All those nasty responsibilities nobody explains you before being confronted with.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

I really like this one. It’s modern Home Ec. And sorely needed.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Would teach: Apathy

Why? Apathy

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

How to pass the final? Not show up.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Nobody likes a kiss ass!

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 2 points 21 hours ago

Gym, I'd just let 'em play dodgeball each class

[-] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Wood science, I suppose.

[-] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Why? So much of that is inaccurate or unsafe that you would only be hurting people.

Now teaching kids how to safely work an angle grinder ora cutting torch so they can get into places when they forgot their keys? That's useful stuff.

[-] Toes@ani.social 6 points 1 day ago

Computer hardware and administration are probably my best subjects worth teaching.

I'm certified and have plenty of industry experience. I could even bring my own hardware for lessons.

Earth Science!

Cmere class, look at these clouds! They're really really cool!! Okay, now here's a five gallon bucket of water, try to lift it. Heavy, right? Now imagine six hundred of these and look at that cloud again. That's how much that sucker holds. Crazy, right?!

Now hold this rock. Pretty heavy. Throw it, it falls. Then what about hailstones that are that size or larger. How can they keep something like that, along with five hundred tons of water alllll up in the sky?

Today we gon learn

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Uncle Billy Bob teach' said we gon' learn. We learnt lots t'day

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

I have taught computer science, but I'd also be happy to teach art, finance, or ethics.

[-] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
[-] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Starship Troopers style?

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Debate class. Have people choose a subject. Ask which side they want to support. Then assign them the opposite side. Get them to look at other angles of subjects

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

History, with an emphasis on grassroots struggles. If labor history were a real course in schools, I'd probably actually go back to college for an associate's to actually teach it

[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I live in Texas, and we focused on the glories of "free-market" "laissez faire" capitalism in our American history class.

Not a word about things like the Triangle Shirtwaist fire or the Homestead Strike or the Great Railroad Strike of 1922. I'm frankly shocked that we talked about the civil rights movement at all.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Since you live in Texas, you might be interested in your own version of Blair Mountain, the Grabow Massacre during the Texas Lumber Wars

[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

History

It's due to my passion for the subject and hope that I could cultivate the tools for critical thinking in young minds.

That being said I'd be terrible at it.

-First day of School

-Students: Good morning MisterNeon.

-Me: Cram it you little shits! Today I'm going to teach y'all why Mexico is cool. Anybody who says the words "aliens" or "giants" is getting thrown through a window.

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

Math. Because I have a degree in it. Not Math Education. Math.

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 1 day ago

Media competency and how technology works. Because that includes things I'm good at, and it's desperately needed.

[-] passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Anything aviation. Metrology principles of flight engines pneumatics hydraulics avionics

[-] Majorllama@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Common sense/critical thinking 101.

It is utterly baffling watching some people just bumble through life completely clueless.

I have lost track of the number of adults who have no clue how do their taxes. They either have their parents do them or they pay someone to do them for themselves. I consider myself basically financially retarded, but I still learned the bare minimum to be able to do my own goddamn taxes.

People don't know the bare minimum about their vehicles and it ends up costing them thousands.

People are oblivious to their surroundings and never prepared for anything even slightly.

People just do things without a single thought towards the potential consequences of their actions.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A philosophy class on how to live a better life.

I'm an expert on doing the wrong thing. I could just "Costanza rule" it and teach them to do the opposite of what I did.

I've always wondered isn't it a paradox though? If everything you choose to do is wrong, so you choose to do the opposite, that is also your choice so it must be wrong lol

[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

English, because word history is fun, communication is important, and teaching kids that language is constantly evolving would be fun.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Encambulators, both Turbo and Retro.

After progressing we may touch on Volt Xocula, encased framdrives, or a logarithmic conductual shafts, but I'd always bring it back to Encambulators because its such an important topic.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

In college I would teach the latest quantum encabulator technology. I would open the class by hiding in a box and the students wouldn't know if I was actually alive in the box until they opened it. At which point I would demonstrate the process of using a matter translation array and quantum encabulation to be able to find the answers to such things without having to actually open the box by way of deterministic reality differentiation using a standard wainscotted multiversimeter.

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago
[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Signals and Systems, i.e. linear dynamical systems, Fourier/Laplace/Z-transforms, and linear stability, because that's what I'm interested in.

[-] Boozilla@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Assuming I'm given time to brush up on it, math probably. Algebra, Geometry, and Trig. I was good at those and enjoyed tutoring math when I was in college. Calculus is awesome but I'm too dumb to teach that to anyone.

[-] golli@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Existing one or on a topic of my choice?

If I had to teach an existing one it would probably be sport, since as a reasonably fit person with a decent understanding on how to train in a healthy way it would probably be the one where I could come closest to providing a similar level to a real teacher. Otherwise maybe sociology? Think I could do a decent job there aswell.

If I could make my own it would probably be personal finance. Because I think here in Germany education on this topic is basically non existent. And there is so much money wasted on bad financial products and wrong decisions, that giving everyone some basic lessons would have a huge positive effect.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

My choice would be to teach English literature, finances made me teach all manner of computer classes. :)

[-] Jayb151@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Secondary English... Because I used to teach secondary English

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've already started teaching my own kids this, but how to recognize AI generated shit because that's going to get dangerous as time goes on

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Computer networking, probably. Maybe high capacity storage clusters.

EFIT: splelign

[-] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

caoacity storage clusters.

At my work we use CoAssity clusters.

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