Delete comment from: Captain Capitalism
rogeru45 hits one of the gaps in most teachers' training: there is nothing to develop, or test for, "command presence" in a teacher. A teacher who is barely competent at the subject matter, but who can keep order in the classroom will get better overall results (as the smarter kids teach themselves) than a teacher who lets the kids run wild. But there's no training in that ("classroom management" classes don't cover it), and it's not always tested for in an interview. The only hope is that teachers who don't have (or develop) it get hit by an economic downturn and get laid off before they have enough seniority, and decide that they hate teaching because they can't control the kids.
Oct 3, 2011, 4:53:34 PM
Posted to You Mean a Degree is NOT Experience???