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Jimmy the Squid:
I think at my uni they are pretty much hard-arses about that kind of stuff. That said, if you apply for special consideration and you have a legit reason (death of an immediate family member counts) then they are pretty good about it. It is retarded that she wouldn't accept the paper early. Hell in my first year all my papers were due on a friday so I gave them in two days early so I wouldn't have to go in on the day (I didn't have class on fridays). Of course we just have to put them into the relevant assignment box and the lecturers' problems with organisation are not our problems.

The extra letter:

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--- Quote from: Tom on 09 Jun 2011, 19:22 ---There aren't many science courses so it's odd anyway for someone to go after more than 6 units (3 courses) and you can take a total of 3 or 4 Math subjects.
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Of course there aren't many science courses. What would be the point of creating curricula if you can't take them? And the science courses that you *can* take are restricted to two units (except for Mathematics), whereas you can take three-unit History, four-unit English, music, French etc. Basically scientists are second-class citizens in the NSW school system.

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Just wait until the National Curriculum hits. Then the value placed on science education will become even more laughable.

The way it's going to work it looks like year 7 kids won't be allowed to use bunsen burners or chemicals, since in some states year 7 is still part of primary school (WA and QLD, I think?) Most primary teachers aren't qualified to teach science, so everyone has to suffer.

At least, that's the way it was going to be this time last year.

Sorflakne:

--- Quote ---Apart from the professor humiliating the student publicly, none of this strikes me as all that heinous. When I was at uni, the basic policy was that ill-health of the student (backed up by a doctor's certificate) was the only acceptable excuse/reason for late submission of work. Most lecturers would cut some slack if they were approached about a problem before the deadline for submission, but were pretty flint-hearted if presented with a fait accompli after it. Mostly you were expected to put your work first.
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No, it's called 'Being a Colossal Dick'.  Not even the instructors of my military courses were that harsh, and I never had a professor who'd pull something like that.  Yeah, they were strict about lateness and absences, but they were never dicks about it.

Adlan:

--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 09 Jun 2011, 21:13 ---Hey, just wondering, for people who aren't from the States, what's involved in being licensed to teach?  Does anyone know anyone who moved from the States and taught?  I know this is slightly off topic, but it'd be really helpful.

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In the UK you must have a relevant degree (AFAIK you must have an educational level above what you want to teach, so as a Chen grad with an English A-level, I can be a Chemistry Teacher, and also teach English or Biology upto GCSE level, I had a few teachers who were cross disciplinary and they were pretty good).

I had an RS (religious studies, now religious education) teacher who demanded the religious minorities effectively teach the segment of the class on their religion, which as the only open Jew in a school of 3000. It was pretty demeaning the way she did it, she thought she was being cultruallu sensitive, instead it was just isolating, as none of the various Christians had to do so, and atheism/Agnosticism was ignored completely.

I also feature as a teacher in this thread. I was a wood tech technician in my 1st year trying to do A-levels. That meant I got to help out in my free periods, setting up, using the equipment on my own projects and helping in lessons. I also made the tea. I once was left in charge of a lesson, the teacher buggered off and said I was covering. The lesson was stained glass cutting and setting using hot soldering irons and metal structures I'd prefabbed.

I can tutor, I can't teach a class, I have no interest  or skill in holding people's attention if they don't want to learn. So I let the majority of the class (average age 12-13 I think) sit and chat and dose about. Until they got to be disruptive. I couldn't leave the class to get help, major injuries from solder and sharp implements would likely ensued on someone, no one else was around, I wasn't gonna Bally well scream for help and there were no phones. So I used the same threat I used on my you her siblings. I'll pick you up turn you and upside down. I only had to do it once, and the class quietened, on the agreement that I'd dangle anyone that wanted by their ankles, if they had kept quiet during the lesson.

Patrick:
Go teach at the international school in Tirana, Albania, because it requires literally no credentials or even education. You basically just have to speak English.

I sat in on the music class a couple years ago. Mrs. Hemphill. She couldn't tell the difference between duple meter (2/2, 4/4, shit like that) and triple meter (3/4, 6/8, 12/8, shit like that). She told an entire class of 7th to 12th graders (small school) that one of Mozart's waltzes was in 4/4. I corrected her and she sent me out of the class. I responded by saying "Hey your teacher's a proud, spiteful imbecile" as I walked out. Fuck that shit, she never took a music class in her life.

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