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Boring but effective way for me: Go to Amazon and after reading carefully through the reviews, buy the most highly-rated, conversation-based audio lessons you find. These usually come with a workbook and dictionary if you are lucky. Don't automatically buy the most expensive. Listen to these CDs with headphones many, many, many times. Using the workbook will cement the words. It's easy beacuse you only have to learn about 4,000 entirely new words used in various contexts to be considered near-fluent; so get started by listening and repeating!
I have found the Living Language series effective for getting up to speed quickly in various languages.
https://www.amazon.com/Living-Language-German-Complete-coursebooks/dp/0307478556
That would be awesome! I'm gonna give that offer back to you. You can hit me up if you want and need help.
I found the Dummies-Books extremly helpful
A syrian friend of mine recommended this back in 2015 when he came as a refugee. Within a year I could understand him Без проблем.
As for Susskind's book, you can find it on Amazon, at least in the US. I'm not sure why it's not titled Classical Mechanics like the other two in the series, but there you are. Whether you choose that or Thorne and Blandford, or another reference, I hope your search for the meaning of tensors is fruitful!
I would suggest "The Theoretical Minimum"
https://www.amazon.com/Theoretical-Minimum-Start-Doing-Physics/dp/0465075681
It's not a pop sci book that give handwavy woo-woo explanations, it delves into the math but explains what the equations mean. A college educated person would have no problem with it.
Moose & Mika's Adventures: A story about kindness https://www.amazon.com/dp/1948927705/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_F9DGJSVDDKHM7S74PTEQ
Yes there was a typo where she called them Mooke and Mike.
There is a really good book that goes into this
And a youtube series taught by the author
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-rICyRc1Qz144U91HTd6zY9pDVVPwskg
I've never actually watched this, but Leonard Susskind's Theoretical Minimum set of courses might be worthwhile for you. There's also a book with the same title by him, which sounds like what you're looking for. The book and the courses are both stand-alone, the first isn't a textbook you need for the second.
I'm pretty sure the courses are free to watch, so I'd suggest starting with them. The eBook or paperback versions aren't that expensive, though.
Here ya go.
Continuing to Engage the Online Learner: More Activities and Resources for Creative Instruction https://www.amazon.com/dp/111800017X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_DY3E6P7BXYRBVWNEANB7?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Distance learning. But it's difficult to get the right university for the right price.
https://www.amazon.com/Bears-Earning-Degrees-Distance-Learning/dp/1580082025
Bear's Guide will help you avoid a disaster. I used it tobget into a Masters degree program at the University of Edinburg, Scotland.
This guy wrote this book just to expose diploma mill scams. He's been fighting diploma mills for 40 years.
https://www.amazon.com/Bears-Earning-Degrees-Distance-Learning/dp/1580082025
Like u/washington_breadstix shared, it is very important to learn your German cases, genders and their plural forms. There are a lot of articles available to help you with this if you don’t have a workbook!
If you are looking for a great workbook edition, this one has been of great use to me and explains the cases and so much more:
https://www.amazon.ca/Living-Language-German-Complete-coursebooks/dp/0307478556
>-I have no formal teaching experience
You likely could spin pastoral duties as education, but speak more about the planning of how you wanted to deliver something, and how you assessed if participants learned what you trying to teach.
>-What kinds of questions
Sorry, I started teaching at a Community College, they just handed me phys ed activity classes
>-Anybody have resources for learning about pedagogy?
Androgogy is the term for adult learning (college) so that will be helpful in your search. Text resources such as those from Walvoord or Suskie (assessment), Nilson has a few texts and one that focuses on online education. Often most masters programs don't teach how to teach, because most masters programs are for specializing in content. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119242290?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
>-Imposter Syndrome
Don't even get me started
>-Do adjuncts get to choose classes
Typically not, unless you have significant inner knowledge of the department and good standing with the department chair. In some cases course objectives and outcomes are set, but you typically have academic freedom to meet those objectives and outcomes.
>-What was your favorite class that you taught and why?
Biomechanics and motor control/theory. It's amazing how the body functions in movement.
PS: I really recommend the book <u>Online Teaching at its Best</u> by Linda Nilson and Ludwika Goodson for a comprehensive look at effective online instruction and some of the theory behind it. Furthermore, there's an interesting body of research work on online instruction and students with learning disabilities that concludes that online courses are better for those students because of the structure they provide.
I would STRONGLY recommend The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky. While not strictly focused on QM, it’s an excellent introduction to physics and some of the basic mathematics required.
Any one any thoughts on "the theoretical minimum" by Leonard Susskind? Decent place to start?
Whenever this topic comes up, I recommend reading the one world schoolhouse. It tells the story behind khanacademy.org and in the process it talks about how poor of a job the current education system does teaching math. It highlights the problems created by it.
It really pissed me off reading it because I fell into every one of the traps created by the system just as you have too. I felt robbed by my own education.
The good news is that it's not too late for you to correct your problems and make math easy again. You just have to start over at the beginning.
https://www.amazon.com/Engaging-Ideas-Professors-Integrating-Classroom/dp/0470532904 take a look at this book by John Bean. Unlike many books on writing pedagogy it's actually enjoyable to read. I taught high school and middle school. I am involved in a writing across the curriculum program at our college. I am so sick if reading echo chamber articles by the same 5 people. I think you will like this book.
Follow your passion. This is a field that is full of people that just figured it out.
Computer science is a big field. Math does not overlap with much of it. You can fail out of college math and still be amazing at programming. We like to think they are closely linked. Being good with logic is the important requirement.
There are some very common patterns in programming that have very little to do with math. Get input from user, save data, query data, present data to user, send/receive data to some other system. I won't say that math will not help you, but it is not required to do any of that.
Your failure at math may not be your entirely your fault. To fix your math problem, you need to start over. Fix your issues with early math (That you may not realize that you have) and the later stuff gets easier. https://www.khanacademy.org/ This book by the same person explains what I am talking about: [One World Schoolhouse] http://www.amazon.com/One-World-Schoolhouse-Education-Reimagined/dp/1455508373/ref=la_B00DIE8GXS_1_1_twi_pap_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457283970&sr=1-1
Back to your argument on education, here is a book that will provide a lot more depth on those issues.
The One World Schoolhouse. It was written by the guy behind Khan Academy. It made me feel very dissapointed with the education that I received. If you want more insight into what is wrong and how we got there, I highly recommend this book. He also talks about the history of Khan Academy in the process.