Re: conceptual software

[Sam Sampere <sampere@SUHEP.PHY.SYR.EDU>]

Well Herb, you ask tough questions.  I don't think you can take anybody
and train him/her to be a good teacher, which is what educataion
departments claim they do.  Everyone of their graduates is a qualified,
certified teacher according to the department and some state
guidelines/requirements.  We all know that's BS.

You can't teach personality.  You can't teach creativity.  Those qualities
are innate.  Eyeore would never make a good teacher, nor do I think you
could train him so his personality was more like Tigger.  Pooh has the
personality and the creativity, he's just not too bright.  Send him to
college to study hard and learn some real content, like in a physics
department, not in methods classes in the education department, and I bet
he'd make a GREAT teacher.  So would Tony the Tiger for that matter.

Can you tell I have young kids?  I'm going home to read them some Bugs
Life books.

As a sidenote, my 5 year old is head over heels in love with Jessica
Rabbit.  He got that book out of the library.  He wanted to know why I
married mommy instead of her!  Needless to say, my wife wasn't as amused
as I was by this.

Sam


Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:

> Skilled plumbers or skilled electricians can be trained.
> Is it possible to train skilled inquiry teachers also?
>
> Herb Gottlieb from New York City
> (Where skilled teachers must be are born with the where-with-all
> before we can train them.)
>
> On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 11:28:06 -0500 Sam Sampere
> <sampere@SUHEP.PHY.SYR.EDU> writes:
> > I thought that's what the education departments were supposed to be
> > churning
> > out.  Do teachers in training need more methods classes, more media
> > classes,
> > etc.  Don't get me started on teacher training. Or should we discuss
> > that??
> >
> > Sam
> >
> > Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:44:05 -0500 "John W. Layman"
> > <jl15@UMAIL.UMD.EDU>
> > > writes:
> > > > Conceptual Software
> > > > The richest conceptual software is the Microcomputer Based
> > Laboratory
> > > > software which allows students to study and record the behavior of
> > > > physical
> > > > systems, and to transform this into personal understanding under
> > the
> > > > tutelage of the skilled inquiry teacher. Unfortunately the second
> > > > element
> > > > in not available via the computer.
> > > John...
> > > Where does one find such teachers?
> > >
> > > Herb
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Sam 'No snow, so we're making mud angels!' Sampere
> > Syracuse University
> > Department of Physics
> > Syracuse, NY 13244
> > 315-443-5999



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Sam Sampere
Syracuse University
Department of Physics
Syracuse, NY 13244
315-443-5999