Wow, who'd have thought that Emily's appendicitis would bring down the Kulka blog? Talk about weird side effects to surgery.
I was just reading Vox, and the question of the day (several days ago) was "What are three things you'd like to learn, and three things you can teach someone else?"
You can read the Vox neighborhood replies by clicking here, but frankly, they're not as creative as you'd hope. Besides, wouldn't it be more interesting to use this as an excuse to learn a few things about each other? I'll start.
Three things I'd like to learn:
1. Welding
2. Juggling
3. Fencing (Whipping people with a sword, not caging in the family dog).
Three things I can teach someone else:
1. How to drive a manual transmission
2. How to unclog a toilet
3. How to give a cat insulin shots
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Three things I want to learn:
1. Spanish again... There is nothing like taking four years of it in high school, then forgetting it all in college.
2. Boxing
3. How to drive a manual transmission (preferably Dad's MG).
Three things I can teach someone
1. How to swim butterfly
2. How to sucessfully B.S. your way through any paper with minimal knowledge of the subject.
3. How to drive with your knees
Ok, I am back to the blog..
3 things I would like to learn
1) Italian. Fluently.
2) how to be able to cook anything in my kitchen - even when I have a nearly bare fridge and only 30 minutes until I starve to death
3) to whistle that super cool loud whistle with your finger in your mouth
3 things I could teach
1) math. Fractions, percents, decimals, you name it. Just not geometry.
2)how to change the oil in my car
3)how to play Rummy.
Math. That's interesting, because I can do math from sunup to sundown. Square root of 2? 1.414. See? It just comes right out.
But when I tried to teach math to the kids, it was a dismal failure.
Math just works in my brain. I can see how the things fit together without having to think about it too hard. But when I tried to teach that to the kids it just didn't come across.
I've come to the conclusion that some people have a math brain, and some don't. (Similar to the classic vs. romantic brain types.) And rarely does a non-math person cross the fence.
You know, its funny that you should mention the ability to KNOW math, Vs. the ability to TEACH math. To me, these are very seperate abilities. I have had teachers who obviously knew math, but because it came so easily to them, they didn't know how to break it down to someone who didn't naturally get it.
I can teach math. I can break it down several ways, and then put it back together again slowly.
However, I cannot teach English (such as learning to read, language arts, etc) I learned to read without phonics (don't ask me how, I have no idea), and now I can read really well and rather quickly as well. I can't teach it to save my life! I suppose because I didn't need phonics to be able to read, I just can't understand why anyone else would need phonics. Fortunatly for me, there are classes that teach how to teach english and language arts classes (I am in one now) so that is helping, but overall I just can't seem to teach as well in this area.
EES, you bring up a good point. As I reread my last post, the phrasing made it sound like I was blaming the student that I couldn't teach math. I jumped subjects without concluding the first one.
It turned out that as much as I understood math, I couldn't teach it to someone else. I agree 110% with EES. Even though I know the subject, I'm just not much of a teacher.
In the post, my stream of consciousness drifted over to the math brain vs. non-math brain thought. That wasn't a conclusion, but a whole new subject. Looks like I shouldn't be teaching English to anyone either!
This side discussion fascinated me. I realize that for me, it is great fun to be able to find a way to make anything I am teaching easy to understand. I also saw that I do a better job of teaching beginners than more advanced students. I think when I get to showing p[eople something complicated, I begin to take their expertise for granted, and slip into the other mode you two were talking about. Maybe I can improve on that area now that I see it.
On to my choices:
Three things I want to learn:
Actually, I don't plan to tackle these, but I wish I had in the past
1. How to do a really good job of styling my hair with a blow dryer after I wash it.
2. I would love to know how to decorate fancy cakes. I would like to derive my own style, moving away from cutesy flowers into who knows what.
3. I would like to really know my way around a computer. There is an item a bunch of you could put on your list of things you could teach someone else. And of course David, Cholada, and Cody have all done that for me in the past. Thanks, gang.
Three things I can teach someone else:
1. How to start an interesting conversation.
2. Quilt making - you all know that anyway
3. Improving a beginner's Scrabble score.
Three Things I would like to learn:
1. How to do all mechanical work on my bikes
2. How to run my own business
3. To weld so I can do large installation sculptures
Three Things I would like to teach:
1. Emily to like Pugs (I love those little suckers) and she hates them!
2. Someone how to draw
3. Duct taping (in a mischievous manor)
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