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Re: Old guitar strings--actually Leigh's comments




On Thu, 6 Nov 1997 13:24:38 -0500 "John C. Park" <park@unity.ncsu.edu>
writes:
Donald Simanek wrote [in part]

There's an even more fundamental pedogagical principle we should
remember.
Never attempt to *teach* something you don't know fully, in detail,
and at
a level well beyond the level of the course. If in doubt, leave it
out.
One of the marks of an educated person is to know the limits of
one's own
knowledge and understanding (and there always are limits). Worse
than "not
knowing" is "knowing things that aren't so".

Now if we could just get that information to the professors of
education,
we wouldn't have to spend so much time making up for the mistakes of
ill-prepared teachers.

Hugh


This is interesting in two aspects: 1) Our students teachers with a
concentration in physics are required to take 30-32 semester hours of
physics and 6 semester hours of methods/materials in science
education.
How many more hours of physics do they need to know it "fully"? ; and
2) if
teachers waited to teach until they understood everything fully, would
anyone be teaching?

John C. Park
Associate Professor of Science Education
North Carolina State University



Big-time professors write textbooks (mainly) to learn the subject. -TLW