Wilson, next time you audibly break wind in your 7th grade class suggest locking eyes with a front row student and asking very seriously, “are you a smart fella or a fart smella?”
Please report back on how it goes.
Everyone in the world seems to be convinced that they can teach and coach.
Hmmm, I think I could teach anyone who wanted to learn how to knit. I do not think I would be particularly good at teaching someone who didn't want to learn how to knit though. That's the sticky point, isn't it? How do you teach people who don't want to learn?
I have taught calculus and statistics to people who didn't want to learn it but wanted to do well enough on the tests to get a B- in the course. The mathematical concept I had the hardest time trying to explain was integration, specifically how to explain the reverse of the chain rule. I never came up with a clear way to get people to properly deal with the 2x portion when integrating an equation like 2x(x^2 - 1). The one my students liked best though, for the comedic value, was the day I told them to check to see if the equation inside the parentheses had a baby.
A professor of mine who specialized in ethics and leadership once said, you’ll only remember two things from this class and one of them is you cannot motivate anyone. His point was that no matter how charismatic you think you are as a leader, you cannot simply change motivation by force of personality. Someone has to have desire to be motivated. I mostly agree with that.
The scourge of spurge...
iTunes or Apple Music or whatever they call it these days is truly one of the most loathsome, infernal pieces of software I've ever encountered. It makes me want to scream.
I use it for podcasts and that is about it.