Anyone here like teaching?

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Hi there-

I was wondering if anybody here likes to come up with ways to teach others. I use to want to work with kids directly but their bouciness is too much for my poor aspie brain. Playing games with kids in small groups or helping teachers develop lesson plans is kind of my special interest.

I really enjoyed being a montessori assistant for the brief period that I was one. I seem to be very intuitive with children.
For the brief time that I was in college, I enjoyed tutoring students who spoke hardly any English..and um...I have given screen printing workshops....it is both overwhelming and gratifying.

I would love to work with small kids again.

I'm good at teaching some people.. I taught a friend to make Second Life avatar animations, and she's doing REALLY well with it. She's a lot more creative than I am, and has that great type of OCD that makes her just amazing at it.. she always HAS to get it perfect.

Not teaching in the traditional, academic sense. However, I do enjoy teaching people, particularly my mom, how to use a computer.

Absolutely not. Especially if it's related to something I'm interested in. I get frustrated I can't explain things right and yell at someone if they don't understand. It's pretty bad. No one in my house is allowed to ask me for computer related help or anything.

I love sharing and conveying passion for music with others. I want to be a better teacher than I am, though. Music comes so naturally to me that I have a really difficult time describing what it is I do to make music the way I do. Consequently, others have a hard time learning from me.

I have Asperger Syndrome and Nonverbal Learning Disability, and I greatly enjoy teaching other people.

I teach people how to sing, and have done so for the past eleven years. I have also taught many theater workshops for kids (I was a major theater geek in high school). Currently, I teach a method of sensory-motor education called the Alexander Technique, and work especially with other people on the spectrum, as well as with people with back pain and other musculoskeletal issues.

All of my teaching experience has come out of doing. As a child and teenager, I trained in theater as a way to learn social skills, and trained in singing to help with my self-expression. By the time I was eighteen, I had received so much training in these areas that I started teaching other people, and I began teaching professionally when I was twenty-one.

Most recently, I trained in the Alexander Technique to help with my sensory integration and balance problems from my AS and NLD. The Alexander Technique helped me so much that I decided to complete the three-year certification program, and I now teach it to people professionally.

As a teacher with AS, I find that teaching people is one of the best ways to learn about other people in a structured and safe environment where I get to lead the interaction. I think that largely due to my AS, I am very analytical, I tend to work well with students that other teachers consider to be "difficult" -- for instance, I've worked with several "tone deaf" students (i.e. they couldn't discriminate between musical notes) and taught them to sing on pitch, and even how to sing acapella.

I find that because interpersonal relationships have so many variables, they are very difficult for me to navigate (I have only a few friends, including my wonderful and supportive aspie boyfriend); however, the structure of the teacher-student relationship allows me to interact with people in a more predictable and clearly defined way, and as such, I am able to successfully relate with people as a teacher.

~ Caterina

If it is something I am interested in, yes. With the right people, I tend to be the primary trainer at my company. I work best one on one as there are not any overwhelming social aspects to deal with. I can talk at people, and try to gauge if they are following me.

Some people cannot follow me well, so I assist with visual diagrams (whiteboard/paper) which is the way I see things, but easily get off topic (diving way into details, all of which are important, at least to me). I'm learning back-off strategies to recognize when people are overwhelmed and I need to go more shallow for a bit. Then can fill them in with the details to 'connect the dots' later. It is a good feeling to see someone understand a concept, and talk through a concept on their own accord instead of piecing together facts without comprehension.

The only problem I have is individuality, I have trouble keeping track of who I have taught what. The first person I really brought on board wasn't much problem at all, but it's a struggle going forward as I keep mixing people up.

This only relates to peers, I do not believe I could handle children.

Yes.

I have a degree in Education, and I've been a teacher in one capacity or another for a few years. There is a great deal of background regarding my thoughts on the profession and practice of teaching. I also have a lot of baggage, from the many difficulties I've experienced along the way. But I won't go into all that right now.

I love to teach, to convey information, to instruct and enlighten. Particularly about my interests. Fortunately, I have interests that translate roughly into academic subjects. Geography, for instance. I freaking LOVE geography. I wallpapered my room in maps one time when I was younger. I can make the most boring geographical information come alive in the classroom, simply because I am so passionate about the topic.

Unfortunately, I have severe problems with anxiety and interpersonal communication. To overcome this, I created a number of "scripts" to use in the classroom, with young people; ways for me to structure the nature of social interaction and communication so that I could do well. When I first taught full-time, this became an issue, because I would eventually run out of scripts, or find that certain ones didn't work. I ended up failing pretty badly that first year.

I've been doing substitute-teaching for the past year. Lo-and-Behold, I suddenly discovered that I was the greatest teacher on earth. Substituting created a uniquely appropriate scenario for me... First of all, I was at a different school nearly every day. This meant that the "scripts" that I had developed could be re-used with each new group of students. Also, the social commitment involved was basically none; I didn't have to see these kids again the next day, or possibly ever. Any mistakes that I made would disappear as soon as I left. There was no potential for me to create a bad social situation. I could simply teach one thing very well for one day, then move on and do it again somewhere else.

This was really ideal to me. It was like being something of a guest-speaker... Traveling around and educating people about one thing. I became known at schools that I taught at frequently. I was well-liked by students and administrators. I was tasting a bit of success, which was an entirely new thing to me in the field of teaching.

Drawing upon these lessons, I am in the process of finding a full-time teaching job again. I think I'm finally able to do well now, because of my profoundly different understanding of how I work. Asperger's Syndrome creates limitations and difficulties, but certainly does not preclude me from being able to teach. Through the haze of anxiety and social awkwardness, it is still something I enjoy.

Wow--that is great. You sound like you are an excellent teacher. I was an English teacher many years ago for a year, and thought of going back to it, but I felt so drained at the end of the day by the amount of interpersonal stuff that I don't think I could do it and still have any energy for my kids. Good luck to you.

Wow--that is great. You sound like you are an excellent teacher. I was an English teacher many years ago for a year, and thought of going back to it, but I felt so drained at the end of the day by the amount of interpersonal stuff that I don't think I could do it and still have any energy for my kids. Good luck to you.

Wow--that is great. You sound like you are an excellent teacher. I was an English teacher many years ago for a year, and thought of going back to it, but I felt so drained at the end of the day by the amount of interpersonal stuff that I don't think I could do it and still have any energy for my kids. Good luck to you.

I just got out of school myself so I haven't had much chance yet. but I have a class schedule, complete with assignment plans and HW sheets, (and even field trip possibilities) that I am writing in my spare time. OTL;;;;;; Kind of the dorkiest thing in the universe.
I've co-taught childrens art classes and I'd like to teach more serious ones some time. That's the theme of The Schedule. It's a figure-drawing class.

What is with the penta posting talk about hehe mega latency

thought about being a teacher but realised I hate children so no I don't like teachers I admire teachers but no I don't like teaching

I don't think I could cope with kids but I have been lecturing in digital media at university on and off for about 10 years (even though I don't have a degree!) and I love it. I'm writing and teaching five mobile media production modules to the Screen Arts students at Unitec in NZ next semester.

This is the last lecture I gave: http://www.mindmeister.com/22679245/cul ... chnologies

I'm not a teacher but have been through several phases of teaching;

Teaching at Work - Computer Systems

Teachning at TAFE (A technical college for adults) - Various topics all on Computers

I'm now "teaching kids" indirectly.

That's to say, I'm a scout leader. It's a great way to teach without things getting too "full on".