{"id":582,"date":"2006-04-11T23:27:32","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T21:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rare-it.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/04\/11\/being-a-teacher\/"},"modified":"2006-04-11T23:27:32","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T21:27:32","slug":"being-a-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2006\/04\/being-a-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I completed my first course. That is, a course I have given (as opposed to following one). When I switched to my <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Transfer Solutions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.transfer-solutions.com\/\">current employer<\/a>, I told them that I experienced some great fun in coaching people. Teaching them how to work, or teaching them how to solve a problem. Because our company started as an Education Center, I was asked to think about giving courses. If I wanted to, and only when I was ready for that. Last Thursday I was ready, and I gave my first PL\/SQL course to a small group of people.<\/p>\n<p>The first ten minutes I tought I was going to die. It felt like hell. But I didn&#8217;t die. In fact, it went fairly well. And with each hour passing by, my confidence about giving a course grew.  Yesterday was the final day of the course, and the attendees had to fill in an evaluation form. This is a standard routine. I swear I did not bribe them, but still they gave me high ratings. Yeah. That felt great.<\/p>\n<p>To get into the teaching, I decided not to do courses about subjects I don&#8217;t have a ton of experience in just yet, so I can concentrate on the teaching part instead of the technical stuff in which I&#8217;m supposed to be the expert. Next week I will be giving a course in SQL. That&#8217;s the one you should do BEFORE the PL\/SQL course. The challenge with this course is that it&#8217;s not given in our Education Headquarters, but at a remote location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I completed my first course. That is, a course I have given (as opposed to following one). When I switched to my current employer, I told them that I experienced some great fun in coaching people. Teaching them how to work, or teaching them how to solve a problem. Because our company started as <a href='https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2006\/04\/being-a-teacher\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-20-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}