I'm contemplating offering a basic, assume nothing electronics course during the "winter-session" at our school. 17 meetings over 5 weeks totaling about 40 hours.
I want to offer basic concepts and hands-on, use a soldering iron, make stuff. Without treating it as magic, I'm also facing the fact that there's no assuming that the students will have had any advanced mathematics, so I'm going to need to step away from messy math and stick to simple stuff and the occasional "you'll learn more later."
By the time I actually _learned_ any of this stuff, I'd had 4 semesters of college engineering math and 1 or 2 barf-back EE courses that taught me nothing of use. Then I took electronics for physics and the textbook was AoE and the focus was on understanding things, not just memorizing what gain formula went with what resistor configuration around an op-amp.
But I can't really see trying to force feed AoE (though I still like it) to high school students (nor make them buy it for a 5 week course that won't work far into it.) On the other hand, I'm certainly not looking to repeat my glorious barf-back (rote memorization) experience, which really was a waste of a class.
I can probably limit the class to 5 or 6 students, (it's one of many offerings in a small school) and meeting times are all long enough to get some hands on in every session.
I don't have much of anything nailed down yet, but will need to do so by January (and decide if I'm gong to take a stab at it by Saturday.)