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> I didn't realise teachers went under some kind of assessment to teach particular parts of their subjects. This is hugely variable within the US. > In the UK
by mlyle 5y ago
> I didn't realise teachers went under some kind of assessment to teach particular parts of their subjects.
This is hugely variable within the US.
> In the UK a mathematics teacher is just a mathematics teacher. They all have to teach calculus because that's part of the curriculum. If you couldn't teach calculus then you couldn't be a mathematics teacher.
I think there's a lot of math teachers who would be a bit iffy teaching Calculus that have department chairs that schedule them to teach earlier math instead.
> (That's not a boast - we're poorer and less effective at maths than you are.)
I don't feel like our mathematics system is very good at all.
- chrisseaton 5y agoSounds like the difference is in the UK a teacher teachers a cohort of students through all subjects, not a subject for all cohorts of students. We have one maths teacher who teaches you everything. Maybe they're terrible at half of it? I don't know.
- mlyle 5y ago> Sounds like the difference is in the UK a teacher teachers a cohort of students through all subjects, not a subject for all cohorts of students. We have one maths teacher who teaches you everything. Really? That's very interesting. I had a different math teacher every year / level. I'm at a smaller independent school, where you may have the same math teacher a couple times but people definitely specialize-- we have the teacher who teaches mostly 6th grade math and pre-algebra, and a teacher who mostly teaches algebra I and geometry, and so on. On the one hand, you lose continuity. But you also get a fresh start each year, with a new teacher who probably teaches the things you had trouble with in a different way...