Science teachers

[mollykins]

Is it just the schools i've been at, or are most science teachers rubbish with technology?

Neither of my chemistry teachers can use a smartboard properly.

The science teachers I had in the lower part of high school didn't have smartboards in their classes as they knew they wouldn't be able to work them.

At middle school, a substitute teacher whose favourite subject and degree was in some kind of science wrote on a smartboard with a whiteboard pen, which ruined the board, they then tried to clean it with a wet towel!

Another science teacher at middle school managed to freeze all of our computers. There's a way of the teacher logging on and being able to show what they have on their screen on all the other computers in the room. But when they did, they froze the screens and all the computers bleeped and then there was a huge cafuffle trying to fix them.

What about you factor?

[theprof]

I have got a couple of bob in the bank but only a couple. Just to put it into perspective, I should have said that MrsProf earns a reasonable living too. Right now, we're doing what we've always done in funding the education of our younger children and helping out the older children financially as well. It all costs a few bob. Besides, you don't really think I take up my role as a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for the sun, sea and sand do you!!

Sir Prof? Hmm, right now I'm aiming a little higher.

[BertiWooster]

// Besides, you don't really think I take up my role as a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for the sun, sea and sand do you!! //

Of course not - all that sun, sea and sand is overated , you know

// Sir Prof? Hmm, right now I'm aiming a little higher. //

Ah , right - got you - you want to ' lord ' it over the peasants .

[theprof]

Hmm, "lord it over peasants"? I don't think so. I'm one of them myself - I've just been in the right place at the right time.

[theprof]

Having admitted to being a member of the Hoi Polloi, the less I say about Sir Prof the better!

[johnheritage]

Secondary school teachers do not need to be particular skilled in the arts of science or technology, they just need a basic understanding.

The government is now trying to hoard in as many teachers as possible, as cheaply as possible. My mum was a primary teacher. My sister has just qualified. I am stunned my sister will be teaching people, as she struggles with multiplication, division, the times table and turning a computer on, can't spell for **** and can't paint or draw, or play an instrument.

My ICT teacher once had to ask us how to turn her laptop on.

Wait until you get to university. There is a gigantic leap in the level of enthusiasm and knowledge. You'll be being taught by people who spend every hour they're not talking to you, reading about science.

Particularly with science, one person is never going to know all of it, if even some of it. So you'll still find lecturers at uni who have no idea about physics, but can go into the minute details of metabolic cycles and such.

The key is, team work. Sharing information and realizing when it's better to ask a physicist, chemist, electronics or maths guy. That really does have an impact that is so great, people are still trying to make full use of it via things like google data mining.

Most university level science now isn't chemistry, physics or biology, the labs will have a bunch of different people mixed in to maximize the skill sharing.