Re: The "typical" high school physics teacher

[Jim Ealy <Jim_Ealy@RCDS.RYE.NY.US>]

PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu writes:
> I have one friend who was hired as a public high school physics
> teacher after obtaining a biology degree from the U. of Illinois.  My
> understanding is that she had no college physics courses.


At several AAPT meetings I have heard several speakers "Quote" a typical
situation with an interesting connection.  "About 19% of HS graduates take
a year of physics during HS"...... "and about 19% of all HS physics
teachers have had AT LEAST one year of university physics......."
This may or may not be true...but even if only19% had MORE than one year
of university physics............  Emergency Certification gets around any
pedagogical reasoning....

jim ealy
education by demonstrqtion