Good luck Mr Harris
As a beginning teacher I have to most reapect for the guys who have done thier time and are retiring. "Old school" teachers rule.
P.S. Do you have any resources you want to share (teacher code for you design the circuit and code and give it to me and I'll submit it) or perhaps some project ideas that you have used that work.
By the way Manuka, Latin, Greek, long division, sketching,steam engines, sail, log tables, celestial navigation,military drill, horses or swordsmanship et al.
En guard (well the katana not the rapier or the bastard), some years.
Dad is an engineer and saw time in Vietnam so sketching, steam engines, drill, night nav, the sextant (one sixth of a circle), long division and a tatty scientific tables book have contributed to my being the well adjusted member of society that you see today.
One of the biggest differnces I have seen is the lack of respect shown by students and the idea many of them have that they WILL be a star, sports hero or get that high paid job straight out of school. GET REAL PEOPLE!!
Best of luck Mr Harris, I hope some of your former students buy you a beer.