Re: Rewarding occupations

["Daryl L. Taylor" <Daryl@DARYLSCIENCE.COM>]

Allow me to shed a personal touch on this topic. It happened to me. After
graduating from Shippensburg in beautiful downtown central PA, I interviewed
in MD since they were paying a couple hundred more than PA; a whopping
$6700! The Super's 1st question was, "So, what do you know about Advanced
Biology?" I truthfully replied, "Nothing! I majored in Physics and Math and
have ZERO Bio credits." His next question was, "But, you can coach
wrestling, right?" "Yep." Rubber stamped right on in and two months later
was teaching a subject I knew less than nothing about. (I won't say the name
of the school, tho it rhymes with 'Westminster'.)

Gosh it's been a great ride...

Daryl L. Taylor, Fizzix Guy
PAEMST '96
Internet Educator of the Year '03
Williamstown HS & Engineering Academy, Rowan University NJ
www.DarylScience.com <http://www.DarylScience.com>
609.330.9571

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-----Original Message-----
From: Forum for Physics Educators [mailto:PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu]On Behalf
Of RAUBER, JOEL
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 10:13 AM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: Rewarding occupations


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Edmiston [mailto:edmiston@BLUFFTON.EDU]
>
> I haven't taken the time to perfect this, but if I try to be a realistic
> rather than humorous I might say something like the following...
>
> (1) Those who want to become coaches go into teaching.
> . . .
[***]

True anecdote:

I'm reminded of a situation I witnessed in a summer program class of mine
that was given to young teachers, had little physics knowledge and were
assigned by principles to take over the physics class in high school.

One student was fresh out of college and was still looking for employment,
during the class we were interrupted by the secretary who had a phone call
for this student from a high school considering employing him.  When he got
back to class, naturally we all asked about it.  He told us that all the
principal cared about was if he was certified to coach, and didn't even ask
about his science teaching certification.

Joel R