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calenlass:
--- Quote from: Reed on 17 Sep 2009, 08:30 ---Jace, since NCLB you will find that any state you go to in the US is the exact same way. Right now there is no way to escape teaching towards standardized tests (unless you want to teach at alternative schools).
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Does "alternative schools" include private schools?
Find a private school or a Catholic school or something, Jace, and tell them that in your spare time you would like to observe because you are interested in teaching. If you explain the situation to most teachers, they will empathise with you! Most of them don't like it, either! And even in a place like a religious school, you will be able to observe methods and styles that work, even if you have to sort through the religious-oriented stuff. I know that at my middle school and high school (which was private), you probably wouldn't have to talk the principal into anything: he'd be all for it and do everything he could to set that up.
Verergoca:
--- Quote from: calenlass on 17 Sep 2009, 07:51 ---Don't be mean, Vergy. You know we don't have real pubs.
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Isnt that what internships in foreign countries are for?
Reed:
I guess I should have been less specific. You're right, private schools in general don't have to worry about that as much. Of course most privates schools actually manage to pay less than their public counterparts, so you should keep that in mind.
Also, Bassist, I have an RA so I'm really not that jealous. If you had told me that a year ago I would not have been so happy, but that was a year ago.
jhocking:
--- Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 17 Sep 2009, 09:09 ---
--- Quote from: jhocking on 17 Sep 2009, 07:26 ---To be fair note that art classes are often longer, because you're in the studio doing the work, rather than just listening to a lecture and doing all the work at home.
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So, it's like mandatory "homework" time? Damn. I mean, I had rehearsals, but individual practice was to be done on my own time (once, my teacher was really pissed off that I hadn't put in enough work that week and just left, saying that I could practice if I wanted to, but he saw no reason to remain around).
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*shrug* I suppose that's what it means, yeah. Frankly, to really get good, say, as an animator takes a lot of practice outside of class too, so I guess people don't think too much about that whole conservatory atmosphere to classes. Also I've done that leave-because-the-students-aren't-working thing; it was some class where nobody had done the reading so it would have been a complete waste of time to try to have a discussion about an article nobody read.
Jace:
Well, I'd ideally like to teach high school level since that is where I can really get into detail for the parts of history I enjoy (early to mid 20th century), whereas before that you have to do a broad brush stroke of Ancient Babylonian up to 1995 in a single school year.
I think I'd be alright with teaching at a private school because it'd be less about the pay and more about teaching something I enjoy.
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