Pink.Everyone suffers or succeeds by virtue of their economic know-how. I regret that, but I am referring to economics as its principals apply to the spending of time, talent, and energy, rather than money.My students read, among other texts like To Kill a Mockingbird and Animal Farm, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, The Only Career Guide You'll Ever Need and they listen to parts of Drive: The Surprising Science of Motivation, both by Dan H. ROI, marketing oneself and one's ideas or world view.I am a 38 year old English teacher and I don't balance the checkbook. I USE subjects that engage students to teach the skills the 21st Century economy demands.I agree with James Cook, Rob Ferrin, and Larry Sanger each of whom, in his own way, responds that economics is a core subject that should be taught.The law of diminishing returns, diversifying your investments, short term and long term investments. persuasive, explanatory, and narrative expression-how to recognize in reading and in original writing your subject, occasion, audience, purpose, and tone.-methods of analyzing text that promote autonomous reading of complex nonfiction texts.I do not teach a subject. I guess I don't disagree with any of those terms, but I would disagree that my subject is the most important one to master, or at least demonstrate proficiency.The things I teach are skills:-how to vary sentence structure for engaging prose-how to speak accurately and with authority-incorporating ethos, pathos, and logos into your public speeches-relating themes and critical understandings across canonical and contemporary texts through writing, analysis, and discussion.-how to use language as a source of creative. Discipline: English Language Arts, which some refer to as rhetoric and communication. I could not resist peaking at the first answer, and then of course quickly fell into the reading of the rest of them.I teach in the Silicon Valley. I have been reading quora for months now, but never replied to a question. If you had to pick one, what is the single most important subject everyone should know, beyond "core" subjects taught in the early years? Please don't answer with "core" subjects like reading, writing, basic math, science, and history. I find it helpful to teach certain subjects like math, science, reading everyday. We watch the news and weather, talk about headlines in the paper, this often opens up debates on certain subjects, including geography, religion, war and such. We talk about everything, birth control, reproduction, music, sports and if e don’t know the answer to something g we find out! We may not do “school” one day a week but even going to get groceries is a teaching moment, sales tax, percentage saved, best deal and coupons. Cooking is a good way to learn about measurements, time and following directions. My oldest daughter is a senior this year, she just took her ACT and scored a 20. One son is autistic and he hates reading, I don’t push it but what I give him to read is something that he is interested in. All of my kids are teenagers, they know how to budget money, write a check, balance a checkbook, do laundry and how to sew on a button. We delve into plenty of stuff that each child is interested in, we build off each lesson to keep interest high, teaching moments are every second of the day, not everything has to be formal. My son has difficulty with writing, I use a lot of worksheets that he can circle answers on, I use the school curriculum, all questions in the books are answered. I Home school two of my children and two attend public school.
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