Teaching Secondary Students
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Jordan Said:
What are the pros and cons of going into teaching secondary school students as opposed to Junior College ones?We Answered:
Being a secondary school teacher, you are constantly doing paper work to verify what, when and how you are teaching mandated curriculum. Which is constantly changing. Trying to keep up with it is exhausitng. Our principal is no help, none of us really even know what we are supposed to be doing. Unfortunately, you could be the most awesome teacher, but all they care about is if your students pass.In college, it doesn't matter if the students are there, if they do their work... You teach what you want and how you want. If they don't pass, the school gets their money and they have to take the class again.
The kids in college are more mature (generally) and actually want to take the classes they are in.
Leo Said:
what are the best English movies for teaching English for secondary school students?We Answered:
The BorrowersSecret Garden
Some of the Disney movies (the cartoons)
Rose Said:
Please suggest ways of teaching to write English compositions to higher secondary students?We Answered:
One way to get many suggestions is to go to Collegeboard.com (AP Central) and look at AP English Language and Composition. The class is focused on the teaching of writing and many educators contribute to the AP Central web site. If you are a teacher, you can sign up (free) for an account that will give you access to all of the information.If you wish to use a text not tied to English literature, The Brief Bedford Reader (Bedford St. Martins pub.) contains many prose, non-fiction essays as examples and good chapter discussions of 8-10 types of essays as well as student-written models. I've used this text in both high schools and English 1A (college). It's quite effective.
Finally, the Online Writing Lab at Purdue.edu has wonderful resources both in style and mechanics.
Chester Said:
Is teaching high school students really that bad?We Answered:
No, teaching high school students is not that bad, unless your teaching in a bad school district. What really determines how good or bad your students will be is how well you connect with your students. If you are able to connect with them on a personal level then you can really make a difference in their lives. And if your class was noisy or disruptive you could always either yell at them, tell them that you'll give them a detention/ other form of punishment, or this one chem lab/ physics teacher I had, because experiments could get noisy, would use a air horn to get the class' attentionJacqueline Said:
what is teaching literature to secondary students?We Answered:
strawberry... since it is fun :))