High School Teacher Dream Job

[saxitoxin]

Which subject would you most want to teach as a high school instructor and why? In this scenario imagine you had whatever qualifications were necessary to be successful in this subject, even if you don't currently have those qualifications. If you like, you can specify specific classes within one of these subject areas.

Which would you least wanna teach?

[Lootifer]

Easy. Math.

Also what in the hell is vocational?

Also i'd fill in for AoG's Phy Ed class when he was away on International Rugby duty.

[saxitoxin]

Also what in the hell is vocational?

skills-based modules, like ... mechanics, or cooking, or keyboarding, or cosmetology, and so forth

[BigBallinStalin]

Civics/History.


Least = P.E. (boring)

[DoomYoshi]

Dear Mr. Language Person:

I`m confused. If I am teaching in Germany, does English count as a Foreign language. Also, can I teach Phys. Ed. and/or health at an all girls school?

[macbone]

Teach high school? A fate worse than death!

A guy I know who retired from the army said teaching high school math was his toughest assignment he ever had. =)

[thegreekdog]

History.

Would hate teaching math. I like the algebra, but after that is where math and I part ways.

[saxitoxin]

Dear Mr. Language Person:

I`m confused. If I am teaching in Germany, does English count as a Foreign language. Also, can I teach Phys. Ed. and/or health at an all girls school?

I believe xeno is already teaching those classes. Sorry.

[saxitoxin]

I have copied the online course catalog/descriptions from Roxbury Latin School below. Now, select an appropriate number of classes you plan to teach next year. Choose three from your subject area, unless specified. Later, you will need to select which extra-curricular activities you will advise.

SCIENCE (choose three classes)

Natural Design - The course begins with a discussion of the forces of tension and compression in various arches (Gothic, Roman, Catenary), and group construction projects on campus follow.

Physical Science - The course is devoted to the study of matter.

Biology - The course begins with introductions to chemical and biochemical reactions and biological evolution. Frequent laboratory exercises advance and illustrate the conceptual material.

Physics - Students in Physics explore the structure and animating forces of the natural world.

Chemistry - The courses incorporate introductory lab exercises and a thorough study of chemical stoichiometry, gas laws and kinetic theory, qualitative advanced views of electronic structure in atoms and and some organic chemistry.

Environmental Science - Students examine the challenges facing varied environments and ecosystems and the people who depend on them throughout the world.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE (choose one sequence)

French 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 - French

Spanish 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 - Spanish

Latin 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 - Latin

Greek 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 - Ancient Greek

LANGUAGE ARTS (choose three classes)

English 1 - Among the works considered are the following: Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Shakespeare, King Lear; Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone; Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych.

English 2 - Among the works studied are the following: Transcendentalism: Essential Essays of Emerson and Thoreau; Conarroe, Six American Poets; Gioia and Gwynn, The Art of the Short Story; Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun; Morrison, Song of Solomon; Norris, Clybourne Park; Shakespeare, Hamlet; Twain, Huckleberry Finn.

English 3 - Works considered include the following: Gioia and Gwynn, The Art of the Short Story; Chekhov, The Seagull; Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Frost, Selected Poems; O’Brien, The Things They Carried; Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye; Shakespeare, Macbeth; Swift, Gulliver’s Travels.

English 4 - Among the works studied are the following: Boynton and Mack, Introduction to the Short Story; Arp and Johnson, Perrine’s Sound and Sense; Cisneros, The House on Mango Street; Hemingway, In Our Time; Homer, The Odyssey; Knowles, A Separate Peace; Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.

English 5 - Works considered include the following: Lee et al., Grammar for Writing; Arp and Johnson, Perrine’s Sound and Sense (poetry); Sisko, American 24-Karat Gold (short fiction); Gaines, A Gathering of Old Men; Golding, Lord of the Flies; Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea; Lawrence and Lee, Inherit the Wind; Masters, Spoon River Anthology; Shakespeare, Julius Caesar.

English 6 - The following books are studied in the course: Lee et al., Grammar for Writing; Perrin, The Art of Poetry; Guthrie and Page, Little Worlds; Dickens, A Christmas Carol; Gibson, The Miracle Worker; Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird; Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men.

MATHS (choose three classes)

Algebra 1 - The course emphasizes algebraic techniques, particularly factoring, solving equations, and analyzing linear functions.

Algebra 2 - Students explore functions more extensively, namely polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Other topics studied include conics, sequences and series, and an introduction to trigonometry.

Geometry - Though different sections approach the subject in different ways, all sections develop results involving lines, planes, triangles, circles, polygons, perpendicularity, congruence, similarity, area, and volume.

Trigonometry - Students solve equations involving the sine, cosine, and tangent functions, and then investigate a wide array of real world applications

HISTORY / CIVICS (choose three classes)

Western Civilization - Units of study include Ancient Israel, Classical Greece, the rise and fall of Rome, the life and influence of Jesus, the transition from the Middle Ages to the Age of Kings in the context of the Renaissance and the Reformation, the French Revolution, ideologies of the 19th century, the Great War and the Russian Revolution, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, and heroes of the twentieth century.

Spanish America - Course materials will include texts by Christopher Columbus, Hernán Cortés, Simón Bolívar, Fidel Castro, Gabriel García Márquez, and Hugo Chávez, among others, as well as films, documentaries, music, and visual arts.

Civics - This unit is designed to strengthen students’ understanding of how government works and to explore ways in which individuals can, and do, make a difference through participating in, and interacting with, government.

U.S. History - Emphasis will be placed on three core themes: 1) constancy and change in economic and social realities; 2) watershed changes in American political life and interpretations of government’s role in protecting life, liberty, and property; and 3) America’s place in the world.

American Military Experience - The major themes to be explored will include: the relationship of the soldier to a variety of components within society and the military, the changing nature of war, the interaction of war and politics, the changing popular attitudes and expectations regarding war, and the significance of race and gender in military affairs.

Economics - Topics include the market system of economic organization, economic growth, productivity, the role of government, the financial system, inflation, unemployment, short-term economic fluctuations, exchange rate determination, and theoretical controversies.

[thegreekdog]

Western Civilization
U.S. History
American Military Experience (guest lecturer - Woodruff)

Do I have to speak Latin to teach at this school?

[BigBallinStalin]

US History, Civics, Econ


Their description for Civics is very cute.

[saxitoxin]

While selecting your courses, you also need to select 3 extra-curricular activities you will advise:

Chess - For those interested in serious competition, a traveling team competes in the South Shore Interscholastic Chess League in a series of between eight and ten dual matches during the winter.

Debate - We compete both in traditional debate formats — Oregon and Parliamentary — and in a wide range of public speaking events, including persuasive, after-dinner, impromptu, and extemporaneous speaking, interpretive reading, dramatic interpretation, and declamation.

French Club - Crêpe-making, French film evenings, and service projects to benefit French-speaking countries are some of the activities enjoyed by the group in recent years.

Habitat for Humanity - The group has sent many student volunteers to work at local home building sites in Braintree, Newton, Plainville, Stoughton, Dorchester, Scituate, and Whitman.

Model UN - During several days of debate and political negotiation, delegates work together to formulate and pass resolutions on such topics as nuclear disarmament, economic cooperation and development, the preservation of the global environment, international efforts to halt drug trafficking or to facilitate AIDS research, and peacekeeping.

Newspaper - Under the leadership of senior editors, students from all classes gather news, take photographs, and write articles for The Tripod.

Dramatics - In 2012–13, the senior play was The King Stag, adapted from Carlo Gozzi's Il Re Cervo, by Eberle Thomas and Barbara Redmond; the junior play was Willilam Golding’s Lord of the Flies, adapted by Nigel Williams. The spring musical was Damn Yankees by George Abbott and Douglas Wallop, music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross.

Football

Soccer

Cross-Country

Basketball

Hockey

Wrestling

Baseball

Tennis

Track

Lacrosse

[AndyDufresne]

Easy. Meth.

Fixed.





--Andy

[Lootifer]

Football, cropss-country and track for extra curricular.

Still math as teaching; syllabus looks ez.

[thegreekdog]

Football, baseball.

What?!?!?!

I pick football, baskeball, and debate.

[rishaed]

I have copied the online course catalog/descriptions from Roxbury Latin School below. Now, select an appropriate number of classes you plan to teach next year. Choose three from your subject area, unless specified. Later, you will need to select which extra-curricular activities you will advise.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE (choose one sequence)

French 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 - French

Spanish 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 - Spanish

Latin 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 - Latin

Greek 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 - Ancient Greek you don't need both
GERMAN 1/2/3/4-My choice (that or Japanese )

Economics - Topics include the market system of economic organization, economic growth, productivity, the role of government, the financial system, inflation, unemployment, short-term economic fluctuations, exchange rate determination, and theoretical controversies.[/list]

[Lootifer]

Football, baseball.

What?!?!?!

I pick football, baskeball, and debate.

Oops I meant cross-country running instead of baseball.

[john9blue]

language arts would be easy as f*ck

i swear some of my english teachers rolled a d6 to determine essay grades

even though i was considered a "math prodigy" in high school, i would never teach it, because some people just don't get it at all, and that would probably piss me off LOL

[jonesthecurl]

I wanna teach cookery, history, and Arthurian myths. So thaat's mainly "other", I guess.

[john9blue]

cookery

british english is awesome lol

cookery cookery cookery

almost as fun to say as "boffin"

[jonesthecurl]

cookery

british english is awesome lol

cookery cookery cookery

almost as fun to say as "boffin"

Thanks j9, I'd never noticed that people don't say that in the US, but now you've said it I guess you're right.
OK. "cooking" then.

PS what's wrong with "boffin", apart from being rather out-dated? I'm fairly sure I've seen it in old US sf authors. Maybe not?

[Gillipig]

Math is the only one I would feel comfortable teaching even at a basic level. I've read enough math to perhaps be able to teach highschool kids. I've tried to help my brother with his college level math but I found myself not getting everything myself so that goes out the window.

[2dimes]

Educators are far to worried about their titles to teach "cooking" anymore.

Culinary arts.

Is Boffin the same as slagging? Because it was in my high school. Used in a sentence. "You can't be serious, he's Boffin her?"

[oVo]

You mean shag?

I'm an artist and always prefer teaching what I know, as well as Anthropology (World Cultures; who people are, their beliefs and lifestyles) and maybe a Cooking/Eating Healthy Course (foods & nutrition) would be a nice change of pace.

[2dimes]

Auto fill, seriously? Enough of your shirt!

By the way. Do you need an assistant?