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Re: [Phys-L] teaching credentials +- qualifications +- administration

Oh - you mean like major field tests, IDEA evaluations, etc.?

Time to stop the mutual bashing. I have taught in both HS and college. Even though I would not trade my current college position for a return to HS teaching, I have the greatest respect for HS teachers and what they have to put up with. I am amazed that they actually get to teach some physics. It's a totally different skill set that's required - especially in urban areas.

Bob at PC

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From: Phys-l [mailto:phys-l-bounces@phys-l.org] On Behalf Of Marty Weiss
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 10:48 AM
To: Forum for Physics Educators
Subject: Re: [Phys-L] teaching credentials +- qualifications +- administration

You know what would REALLY tick them off? Evaluations on the basis of
monthly observations of their teaching and the progress their students make
on university mandated testing (tests constructed by peers and
administrators).

On Oct 21, 2013, at 10:26 AM, brian whatcott wrote:

On 10/20/2013 6:36 PM, Marc "Zeke" Kossover wrote [in small part]:
.... many people think that they know what would make a person a great
high school teacher though they have never taught and never hired
someone to teach. They would probably be ticked off if I were to suggest
how their universities should hire professors.

Zeke Kossover

Would they be as ticked off if you suggested that university professors be
hired on the basis of a statistic like the quotient of number of papers
published in refereed journals and number of cites in refereed journals with
a suitable multiplier for the count accumulated in journals of the first water -
Science, Nature, NEJM and the like, and a hugely bigger multiplier for Nobel
awards in any field?

Brian Whatcott Altus OK
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