Comments on: Wanna be a teacher? Your Ph.D. is no qualification http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2004/10/12/wanna-be-a-teacher-your-phd-is-no-qualification/ A community of Physics Phans! Fri, 16 May 2008 19:13:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: doink http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2004/10/12/wanna-be-a-teacher-your-phd-is-no-qualification/#comment-12192 Tue, 25 Apr 2006 03:11:41 +0000 http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2004/10/12/wanna-be-a-teacher-your-phd-is-no-qualification/#comment-12192 I couldn't get the trackback thingy to work, so <a href="http://blamp.com/blog/2006/04/kips-law-sighting-michigan-education.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> is my link, and here is my excerpt: http://blamp.com/blog/2006/04/kips-law-sighting-michigan-education.html I couldn’t get the trackback thingy to work, so here is my link, and here is my excerpt:

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]]> by: Chris Moore http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2004/10/12/wanna-be-a-teacher-your-phd-is-no-qualification/#comment-9 Sun, 17 Oct 2004 17:11:08 +0000 http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2004/10/12/wanna-be-a-teacher-your-phd-is-no-qualification/#comment-9 I can imagine schools have a really hard time getting well qualified computer science teachers (well qualified as in having computer science degrees and experience, not education degrees.) Why teach when you can have a rewarding job in the private sector that pays twice as much? Although I point out that money is not the fundemental issue. For me, freedom is the most important issue. I liked teaching because of the freedom I had. I get paid almost nothing to do research right now. But I have freedom. I get to play with ideas. I get to build things. I get to discover and explore. And when this gig is up, I'll most likely go back to teaching, either at a private school or by starting my own private school. I can imagine schools have a really hard time getting well qualified computer science teachers (well qualified as in having computer science degrees and experience, not education degrees.) Why teach when you can have a rewarding job in the private sector that pays twice as much?

Although I point out that money is not the fundemental issue. For me, freedom is the most important issue. I liked teaching because of the freedom I had. I get paid almost nothing to do research right now. But I have freedom. I get to play with ideas. I get to build things. I get to discover and explore. And when this gig is up, I’ll most likely go back to teaching, either at a private school or by starting my own private school.

]]> by: Hertz Friar http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2004/10/12/wanna-be-a-teacher-your-phd-is-no-qualification/#comment-8 Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:58:20 +0000 http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2004/10/12/wanna-be-a-teacher-your-phd-is-no-qualification/#comment-8 I'm so glad I found this page... To be honest, I think it's funny how many politicians and people in political debates are afraid to question "no child left behind" when every educator who has had to deal with it will tell you that it's garbage. I really think because of the said "hoops" that you have to jump through to teach, it really ruins the quality of the teachers we have. Personally, I'm now wondering if the reason 3 of the best teachers we had at our school quit because of these regulations (one of which being a PhD.) I notice the replacement for the computer science teacher isn't even a computer science or math major. Why? I doubt it's because an English major with no prior experience in programming was the most qualified man they could find to teach outside of these regulations. Even worse than what we're seeing right before our eyes is the effects that these changes will have in 1-10 years when these are the students out competing in the real world. I think it is having a huge negative effect outside of highschool as well, and not just because kids got only half an education in a public school. I’m so glad I found this page… To be honest, I think it’s funny how many politicians and people in political debates are afraid to question “no child left behind” when every educator who has had to deal with it will tell you that it’s garbage.

I really think because of the said “hoops” that you have to jump through to teach, it really ruins the quality of the teachers we have. Personally, I’m now wondering if the reason 3 of the best teachers we had at our school quit because of these regulations (one of which being a PhD.) I notice the replacement for the computer science teacher isn’t even a computer science or math major. Why? I doubt it’s because an English major with no prior experience in programming was the most qualified man they could find to teach outside of these regulations.

Even worse than what we’re seeing right before our eyes is the effects that these changes will have in 1-10 years when these are the students out competing in the real world. I think it is having a huge negative effect outside of highschool as well, and not just because kids got only half an education in a public school.

]]> by: Chris Moore http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2004/10/12/wanna-be-a-teacher-your-phd-is-no-qualification/#comment-7 Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:10:16 +0000 http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2004/10/12/wanna-be-a-teacher-your-phd-is-no-qualification/#comment-7 Galileo Galileo

]]> by: Anonymous http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2004/10/12/wanna-be-a-teacher-your-phd-is-no-qualification/#comment-6 Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:50:12 +0000 http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2004/10/12/wanna-be-a-teacher-your-phd-is-no-qualification/#comment-6 newton newton

]]> by: Chris Moore http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2004/10/12/wanna-be-a-teacher-your-phd-is-no-qualification/#comment-5 Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:34:12 +0000 http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2004/10/12/wanna-be-a-teacher-your-phd-is-no-qualification/#comment-5 I quit the public school system and went to work at a private school. Let me be more clear: I LOVED teaching at the public school I started at. I left that school because I had to (well ... I didn't <u>have</u> to, I just couldn't jump through the hoops fast enough). I went to St. Catherine's to avoid hoop jumping. I LOVED teaching at St. Catherine's. The administration was FAR more supportive and I was ALWAYS treated as a professional. When I jump back into teaching, you can bet that it will be a private school. A note to those I taught at St. Catherines: Leaving was the hardest decision I have had to make in a long while. Right now we would be through with nasty vectors and I would probably be taking a pounding in the stomach with a sledge hammer. I miss that. I quit the public school system and went to work at a private school. Let me be more clear: I LOVED teaching at the public school I started at. I left that school because I had to (well … I didn’t have to, I just couldn’t jump through the hoops fast enough). I went to St. Catherine’s to avoid hoop jumping. I LOVED teaching at St. Catherine’s. The administration was FAR more supportive and I was ALWAYS treated as a professional. When I jump back into teaching, you can bet that it will be a private school.

A note to those I taught at St. Catherines: Leaving was the hardest decision I have had to make in a long while. Right now we would be through with nasty vectors and I would probably be taking a pounding in the stomach with a sledge hammer. I miss that.

]]> by: brian http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2004/10/12/wanna-be-a-teacher-your-phd-is-no-qualification/#comment-4 Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:05:12 +0000 http://www.ilovephysics.com/archives/2004/10/12/wanna-be-a-teacher-your-phd-is-no-qualification/#comment-4 What about last year, when you started the website, when you taught at a private school where they don't require all of these teaching classes, and where No Child Left Behind doesn't matter? What about last year, when you started the website, when you taught at a private school where they don’t require all of these teaching classes, and where No Child Left Behind doesn’t matter?

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