If you had to teach a subject in school, what would it be and why?

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.

Would teach: Apathy

Why? Apathy

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.

Anarchist's Cookbook

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

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

Citizenship

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

intro to programming! ive been told I'm pretty good at breaking things down in a way a beginner would understand and programming is something that can be so intimidating to outsiders, I'd want to help lower the bar to entry and enable people to become passionate in programming when they otherwise wouldn't

Wood science, I suppose.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Real politics. None of this Mr. Bill stuff. How to find and get involved with your state party, how to get a protest permit, how to get signatures for a campaign, how to read statistics and polling, and finally factual primers on issues.

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

Wine, Ihave been studying it for years

Revolution

I always imagined myself like Robin Williams' character in Dead Poet Society and being an English teacher.

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.

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.

Software Engineering with discussion about the field's history and how that knowledge contextualizes modern practices I am teaching my students. Mainline curriculum in python -> C# -> Rust across multiple years ending in a year of guided study and some kind of project that demonstrates what you've learned and what you want to do with your skills.

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.

Basic linguistics.

Oral communications. I have no formal education or interest in performance, but learned how to get over strong stage fright when I was young. Confidence, when it's not natural, is mostly "fake it till ya make it." Also nihilism and cynicism that the kids will naturally grow into as adults.

Computer networking, probably. Maybe high capacity storage clusters.

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

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

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

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

Anything aviation. Metrology principles of flight engines pneumatics hydraulics avionics

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

Creative writing. Id just be very good at it

English.

For context I'm from Costa Rica and English in high school is absolutely nothing to what you learn in the USA/UK. So yeah, I am 17, in 11th grade and I was still learning about past tense, lmao.

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.

History because history always repeats itself. Human nature never changes so throughout time you will see both the good and bad repeated over and over again. If you think the reality of today is special or new you just haven't studied history. Bet you don't know that almost every new advance in technology was initially bashed as "that will never be popular" until it became the standard