Teacher quality vs Studying

[Truck]

Year 8 man, I wasn't at MHS in year 8 lol.

edit: Also Janson is a guy, I definitely said "she" .

my bad, didn't read it properly, having done Year 12 Software Development, the name "Janson" literally just bubbles around in my head, he's like god of IT everywhere my teacher even used his powerpoint slides LOL! (not that she was any good at teaching IT anyway - she was crap )

anyways, is it just me or do IT teachers just seem really bad and lazy in general?

Yeah agreed, very rarely do you get IT teachers who are actually any good... Janson seems to actually be an exception =P.

[paulsterio]

Yeah agreed, very rarely do you get IT teachers who are actually any good... Janson seems to actually be an exception =P.

I think it's because IT is such a niche sort of area in teaching, like there's a lot of IT graduates out there, but the fact that employability in IT is quite high and because of the really really low demand for IT teachers, you only usually get the crap ones who can't find a job in the IT industry. Janson is an exception, that's true, so is Mark Kelly (at McKinnon) and apparently the Melbourne Grammar one is good as well, can't recall his name

But that also raises another issue, maybe bad teachers are just people who can't find employment in whatever field they were in before, so they decided to go into teaching?

[Truck]

Yeah agreed, very rarely do you get IT teachers who are actually any good... Janson seems to actually be an exception =P.

I think it's because IT is such a niche sort of area in teaching, like there's a lot of IT graduates out there, but the fact that employability in IT is quite high and because of the really really low demand for IT teachers, you only usually get the crap ones who can't find a job in the IT industry. Janson is an exception, that's true, so is Mark Kelly (at McKinnon) and apparently the Melbourne Grammar one is good as well, can't recall his name

But that also raises another issue, maybe bad teachers are just people who can't find employment in whatever field they were in before, so they decided to go into teaching?

Look at a country like Sweden where teachers are much more respected and get higher salaries and you'll see that their education outcomes are on average, much better than our own (there's UN statistics on it somewhere, if you don't believe me I'll try dig them out).

One of the largest problems with our education system is the terrible salary and lack of respect teachers get. You need like an ATAR of 60 to get into teaching, and it's perhaps one of the most important jobs (training the future for gods sake!). If there was a higher cut-off and a better salary the quality of teachers would undoubtedly go up, and you could have PhD's teaching high school maths!

[nacho]

guarantee my english teacher would rank top 5 amongst the english teachers in australia
did it make a difference? yea, massive difference, he made me love english, it was like exploring the subject and its nuances, like music
the man is epic, i was very lucky to have him

teachers do make a difference

Year 8 man, I wasn't at MHS in year 8 lol.

edit: Also Janson is a guy, I definitely said "she" .

my bad, didn't read it properly, having done Year 12 Software Development, the name "Janson" literally just bubbles around in my head, he's like god of IT everywhere my teacher even used his powerpoint slides LOL! (not that she was any good at teaching IT anyway - she was crap )

anyways, is it just me or do IT teachers just seem really bad and lazy in general?

is he like the mark kelly of software dev?

[mchli]

my music teacher would forget to turn up to classes... we would just go to the music computer labs and have fun on youtube/miniclip etc... one time, we actually found him in the staff room eating noodles and reading a newspaper...

Hahahaha... Remember when I vs'd you in chess on the computer, I was winning until he came over and helped you win...

[jkhamtanh]

So, if MHS teachers are crappy then teachers at other schools are...?

Guys please, please, quit saying "oh no, we have done so badly this year" when your school obviously hasn't compared to the hundreds of other ones in Victoria.

You have to understand that a lot of our marks are derived from the students studying themselves. At MHS, we're built upon a strong work ethic, teacher quality is not a direct reflection of our academic results. So we have every right to say SOME teachers are inept.

[CaiTheHuman]

I failed the coursework just relying on all the powerpoints the teacher bombarded the class with. He taught us how to answer long essay response in 1 period. Just before the exam, it was the main reason why results were comparatively low compared to the other biology class in the exams. Luckily i self taught my self the course in 3 days and managed to score at least 80% on the exam. Studying really helps xD.