The Glade 4.0

^ A "24 hour crash course" in education amounts to a list of tips.

You aren't teaching a philosophy or style or anything substantitive in 24 hours.

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I suspect he meant a course on "how to teach". Not anything to do with the subject matter.

Items covered would not be "math", but items such as retention of information when told, vs shown, vs demonstrated, vs when students are involved.

My point is that a 24 hour course in "How To Teach" amounts to a tip sheet. You cannot teach anything substantitive about teaching in 24 hours.

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A typical college course is only 45 hours, I think, but I get your point.

Man, could you imagine the pressure of teaching a "how to teach" course?

The majority of my college courses were 100 hours.

semesters vs quarters?

It takes 48 hours of classroom time to earn 3 credit hours in a semester system. 16 weeks at 3 hours of instruction per week. At least, that's the standard everywhere I've been.

It takes 45 hours of classroom time to earn 5 credit hours in a quarter system. 9 weeks at 5 hours per week of instruction.

2 semesters is 32 weeks. A full-time load per term for semester systems is 12 credit hours.

3 quarters is 27 weeks. A full-time load per term for quarter systems is 15 credit hours.

Semester systems are easier to align with most public education systems.

Quarter systems are generally being phased out in most places.

At a full-time financial aid load, it takes 10 full-time semesters to complete the average bachelor's degree in the United States.

Universities currently receive Federal monies based on first-academic term peak enrollment.

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I don't know what system my school is classified under but we did 5 weeks, 20 hours a week for 5 credit hours. General ed. classes were only 30 hours for 2 credit hours.

5 weeks, 20 hours a week for 5 credit hours, sound suspiciously like an accelerated semester and a Class+lab requirement for those classes which took 20 hours a week.

3 hours per day for 5 weeks = 75 hours. That's pretty much in line with a 4 credit hour "hard science for majors" + 1 credit hour lab to me. You can PM the school if you want; I can figure it out for you based on their Accrediting Agency if you like.

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Sorry, meant 25 hours a week. 20 hour weeks were night classes, but those lasted 6 weeks instead of 5.

125 contact hours per term is a rather inordinate number for a single 5 week course. That's a full Carnegie Unit or (10 credit hours).

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By this logic then, someone who has just started the field of teaching and has no experience should be just as good of a teacher as someone who's been a teach for decades.

Personality and mindset are key determinants to being a sales person as well. Do you also think there is no skill involved there as well? There's a commonality between those two professions. I'll clue you in, it's working with people. Anytime you have to engage with other people in a meaninful way one's personality and mindset become key determnants. That doesn't mean, however, that there aren't other additional skills that are necessary to be a good teacher.

Frequently, this is exactly the case.



It is certainly possible for even a poor teacher to improve with experience, but not through being taught to teach. Even with improvement through experience, the starting point is still the determining factor.

Even if you could actually teach someone to teach, that isn't what education degrees do.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

And? This is usually true. In fact, I'd argue that not allowing this fact to come to common awareness is a major component in teacher union opposition to formalized job performance metrics.



Having been both (one professionally and one non-professionally), I can tell you that there are far fewer similarities than you're attempting to imply. Yes, "both work with people." Name a job that doesn't. False analogy fallacy.

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