idea for teachers

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Clisby wrote:

toto wrote:
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:29:02 -0700, "ColoradoSkiBum"
wrote:


NO WAY!!! At a high school? I can't see how that would be possible.
MAYBE at an elementary school if the teacher had had *NO* science training
(and many of them haven't). But in a high school chemistry class?

BTW I don't think that one would even make the "bad science" web site!


Might have been a teacher who was teaching off certificate, I suppose.

There really is no excuse for that though. If s/he did not know, s/he
certainly should not have answered.


I can't believe I didn't even think of that as a possible explanation -
yeah, if it's true, it could be a somebody teaching out of field.

Clisby


Even out of field, if this person was teaching a chemistry class, I'd
hope they were a one day substitute! Or that they misunderstood the
question or something.

meh
--
Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care

This is so mind-boggling that I'm thinking it's sort of an urben legend.
Or could it be true?


Clisby

I can believe it. We caught my high school chemistry teacher in
another chem teachers classroom before school (we had gone to the
other chem teacher for help because our teacher was so clueless)
we walked in on him teaching and explaining to HER the lesson she was
supposed to teach to us that day.

K-

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(Karen) wrote:

This is so mind-boggling that I'm thinking it's sort of an urben legend.
Or could it be true?


Clisby

I can believe it. We caught my high school chemistry teacher in
another chem teachers classroom before school (we had gone to the
other chem teacher for help because our teacher was so clueless)
we walked in on him teaching and explaining to HER the lesson she was
supposed to teach to us that day.

For some reason I guess I deleted or have not gotten the initial
question that the teacher didn't answer. But ...

When I went to student teach, I was told to pick 3 master teachers
that I wanted to teach with out of a list. I picked 3 - one biology
teacher, and two middle school teacher with a biology background. I
was told I could not teach with the middle school teacher because one
of my kids was in his classes (not true) and that I couldn't teach
with the biology teacher because he would be doing sex ed at the end
of the year and I wasn't certified to do that.

They then put me to teach with a general science/chem teacher who had
been out with a heart attack for whom I had been substitute teaching
and who DID have one of my children in his classes. Totally out of my
field which was zoology, and I've always had a problem with chemistry
only passing organic by the skin of my teeth.

So what he did was - I took homeroom. He taught the first class while
I observed. Then I taught the next period what he taught the first
period class, and stood his hall duty while he walked on the track and
showered and sat in the faculty lounge and smoked. He then taught the
class my dd was in (all good kids and fun to teach), and the class
with all the kids who had been held back (which he didn't think I
could handle, but he couldn't either and I'd done fine as a sub) and I
taught last period. This was a lab based curriculum - I did all the
lab prep, prepared all the tests for all the classes, graded all the
work etc. He taught three classes and didn't even observe my work.
When the college prof came to observe it was the first time he'd seen
me in the classroom with the kids.

And he was upset when I wouldn't continue as his unpaid slave after
the college course was over because I wanted to go back to substitute
teaching where I could earn some money.


grandma Rosalie