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Engineers vs. math teachers

There were some really good comments under my recent post about mathematics content knowledge vs teaching skills. Several who commented had themselves gone from careers in engineering into teaching, or thought about doing so. There were some really good insights into the challenges of getting those who are well-trained and experienced with mathematics and science — and who might be interested in teaching — into classrooms. If you haven’t looked in a while, check it out.

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By Mary

June 18, 2006 11:19 PM | Link to this

Just curious if the researchers mentioned were from the university’s education department, which could be a conflict of interest in the study. Also,as pointed out about a month or two ago in a USA Today editorial about other research, teachers shun their talented peers entering from other professions and seem to conspire to chase them out of the profession. When I worked as a sub teacher, I found general apathy and sometimes resentment about my background, absolutely no desire on the part of regular teachers to mentor me or learn from my background and experience, and despite all the noise about teacher pay, absolute apathy about what sub teachers are paid which is much below beginning teacher pay.
 

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