2024-11-16 ┃ edited ┃ RE: futurebird
@futurebird
"Many teachers teach a wide range of grade levels. So you could have a teacher who *could* teach Linear Algebra teaching you in 4th grade math."
This is really important. I taught 8th grade math at a 6-8 middle school. There were two of us among the 18 teachers who taught math who had degrees in math, and how much they'd learned in earlier grades was wrong was frightening. An unholy number of elementary school teachers never liked math and do a poor job teaching it.
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2024-11-16 futurebird ┃ edited ┃ 1💬
@marc_w
They are generally not paid enough to demand as much. Nor offered the time and financial support for professional development.
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