[Ansteorra] OT: evaluating teachers

[David Hughes]

DonnelShaw at aol.com wrote:
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> In a message dated 11/15/02 10:22:12 PM Central Standard Time,
> davidjhughes.tx at netzero.net writes:
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> > Of course, just as it takes 3 - 5 years from the time one earns an
> > Engineering degree to prepare to take the Practicing Engineer's  (PE)
> > exam.
> > A high percentage of ME, CE, CivE, EE graduates find themselves being
> > managers, administrators or salesmen after 3 to 6 years, having found
> > that they just aren't very good Engineers.
> >
> >
>
> No, you didn't get the point. The first year you are learning all the
> unwritten rules of teaching. Also how much the district does or does not
> support you. That how you are taught in the classroom to teach is not always
> what you have to do in your own classroom. Then there is learning the
> curriculum and developing your files. It takes about three years to get
> enough experience under your belt before you are really doing a top job.
>

No, you failed to grasp that I was precisely on point.
An education degree has as much relevance to the actual practice and
politics of teaching as an engineering degree has to being an engineer
in the real world.
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