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On December 09 2011 02:04 emperorchampion wrote:
Out of curiosity, what courses do you teach? I know you teach Physics, but any others?
Out of curiosity, what courses do you teach? I know you teach Physics, but any others?
I'm certified to teach physics. I've taught regular physics, AP Physics B/C (C only as a student teacher though), general physics, 7th grade science research, oceanography, marine biology, nutrition. I'm assuming you are only talking about k-12 education; I taught a bit in college as an undergrad <3
Also out of curiosity, do you ever get bored of the material you're teaching? I've often thought that if I were to teach High School I wouldn't find the material engaging, and for lack of a better term too "low level". It sounds bad, but I wouldn't want to teach something that was so simple.
I enjoy teaching AP level more than Regents, in part because of this. However, I have yet to have a serious problem with losing motivation due to the material being repeated. Even if I was having that type of a problem, it would be at the bottom of a list of 500 more major problems.On December 09 2011 05:23 Doctorasul wrote:
Fair enough, since you're actually in the field and I'm not. Making the material convincing could be the hard part so I'l back off from that point.
Fair enough, since you're actually in the field and I'm not. Making the material convincing could be the hard part so I'l back off from that point.
I could go into a whole rant about the topic but it's not the point of the blog so I'll avoid doing so XD
Sarcasm doesn't go across easily on the internet but I'd like to know what I'm missing. I thought the point was that it's a difficult, creative job and that's fine, but is that what makes teaching special or is it its' importance for the future?
I wasn't being sarcastic or anything... the OP actually is rather subtle. I try not to explain my subtleties on TL because a lot of people give me crap for it, but to sum it up really quickly, when you take some of the things that you are faced with in teaching and apply them to other types of careers/jobs, they sound absolutely ridiculous... but because it's teaching it's considered the norm.
Any reaction to the last question?
As I said, the point of this discussion in particular isn't really about how hard it is to be a teacher, but to humor your question a bit, the value of a teacher is best represented by what they accomplish, so we are probably in agreement more or less on this point.
