Want to teach your subject in front of hundreds of student?

[flusher317]

Interesting, but how are you gonna hire the venue?

Hey Brenden, i've contacted VU, RMIT and MELB uni, about venue hire. So it looks like one of those 3. But i will still have to work out which one is the most suitable!

[humph]

gd'luck mate
    Just my humble opinion but 45 scaled seems a little low as a minimum requirement for the positions. For Spec it would mean about 35 raw, which might not translate to "knowing the subject back to front." 

might be a late reply, but,

the achievement in a subject is not necessarily how well a person knows the course, every human is prone to silly mistakes.

what should be more valued is the ability to teach. not everyone has that. you can well have great understanding and a 50 SS, but if you cannot communicate your understanding and present it in a way that others can understand [and understand well], even if you can get a 60 SS you'll still produce crap outcomes.

knowing the course is a must, but the ability to teach cannot be measured by a simple score and cannot be overlooked, even though that should be the core value.

true. where do you draw the line though? i only got 43s in spesh and methods (43 in methods = 47 scaled, so just over 45), and yet i'm blitzing uni maths (doing graduate level stuff in 2nd year  8-) ). and yet despite myself i'd still consider off the top of my head 43 not to be great enough to do something like this, oddly enough. on the other hand, i know personally that i have a passion for this kind of thing, especially in understanding how to teach and pass on knowledge - i'm pretty certain that i want to become an academic, and i'd be more interested in lecturing than research (though unfortunately the two are not mutually exclusive). i guess my point is you have to find a balance between interest and skill at teaching vs. actual knowledge and understanding of the subject, which is pretty impossible to judge.

anyway, this sounds like the kind of thing i'd love to do, pity i'm in the wrong state (or should that be territory) to do it 

[enwiabe]

Humphdogg, if you don't want to research, my I suggest Specialist Maths teaching + UMEP unimaths teaching at a school in Victoria? Good maths teachers are few and far between, and you appear to be quite passionate and knowledgeable about your subject matter. If you do not wish to become an academic, the most noble thing you can do is to enable as many as possible to become that academic that gives us the next mathematical revolution. You really would be better placed trying to entice as many students as possible into the mathematical world, especially considering our grave (and exceedingly worrying shortage).

Just a suggestion.

[humph]

Humphdogg, if you don't want to research, my I suggest Specialist Maths teaching + UMEP unimaths teaching at a school in Victoria? Good maths teachers are few and far between, and you appear to be quite passionate and knowledgeable about your subject matter. If you do not wish to become an academic, the most noble thing you can do is to enable as many as possible to become that academic that gives us the next mathematical revolution. You really would be better placed trying to entice as many students as possible into the mathematical world, especially considering our grave (and exceedingly worrying shortage).

Just a suggestion.

the problem with teaching specialist maths is that even at that level you encounter too many students who aren't particularly interested in the subject.

the challenge of getting students who have always been good at maths and liked it, to make the jump to liking analysis (2nd yr uni stuff) is much more interesting to me. it's at that level where students either decide that they want to do maths for the rest of their life, or to wimp out and retreat to something soft like chem or physics  i know that i was lost for the first few months of the analysis course i did last year, but after battling through it i realised that i enjoyed the challenge of the course and really liked the maths. and that's the point when i decided i'd like to do maths for the rest of my life 


and as for being an academic - well, i could definitely see myself doing research in the future. it's more that the lecturing is more appealling to me right now. that and i'm intimidated by the thought of having to contribute new and unique ideas to the fields that i'd be in 

[brendan]

i think most academic positions require research. its "publish or perish" as they say

[flusher317]

Humphdogg, if you don't want to research, my I suggest Specialist Maths teaching + UMEP unimaths teaching at a school in Victoria? Good maths teachers are few and far between, and you appear to be quite passionate and knowledgeable about your subject matter. If you do not wish to become an academic, the most noble thing you can do is to enable as many as possible to become that academic that gives us the next mathematical revolution. You really would be better placed trying to entice as many students as possible into the mathematical world, especially considering our grave (and exceedingly worrying shortage).

Just a suggestion.

the problem with teaching specialist maths is that even at that level you encounter too many students who aren't particularly interested in the subject.

the challenge of getting students who have always been good at maths and liked it, to make the jump to liking analysis (2nd yr uni stuff) is much more interesting to me. it's at that level where students either decide that they want to do maths for the rest of their life, or to wimp out and retreat to something soft like chem or physics  i know that i was lost for the first few months of the analysis course i did last year, but after battling through it i realised that i enjoyed the challenge of the course and really liked the maths. and that's the point when i decided i'd like to do maths for the rest of my life 


and as for being an academic - well, i could definitely see myself doing research in the future. it's more that the lecturing is more appealling to me right now. that and i'm intimidated by the thought of having to contribute new and unique ideas to the fields that i'd be in 

Hey humphdogg, what state/territory are you in? maybe i'll expand the business there and you can express your passion in a much more fulfilling way! Imagine 200 students from a lecture coming down giving you pats on the back and high fives for giving them so much value in terms of your presence and content.
The base score of 45 is somewhat flexible. i didn't have the best understanding of my subjects back when i did year 12 and if i knew what i do know now, i would have done so much better. So i take that all into consideration. But the 3 most important aspect of working with my team is (in order)
1/ Passionate and energetic
2/ know the curriculum and content back to front and able to communicate that to the students
3/ willing to learn and adapt
this will be a team of passionate ppl, contributing back to society/year 12 and the dynamics of which will be hard to compare.
David

[humph]

I'm in the ACT. Though in any case I doubt I have enough understanding of the local curriculum to be of any use for tutoring here.

I agree with you completely on those three main principles though; they're what ensures that the students actually enjoy the tutoring.

[flusher317]

flusher, I will get back to you after the mid-years, unless you planned to do this ASAP (i.e.: for this coming midyears)

PM me.

Hey coblin,
when do you finished your midyears?

[lacoste]

hmm flusher, how old are you?
whats the company going to be called?
dont make it something lame!!
i'd like to join

[Collin Li]

flusher, I will get back to you after the mid-years, unless you planned to do this ASAP (i.e.: for this coming midyears)

PM me.

Hey coblin,
when do you finished your midyears?

I finished on that very day you posted this. Will contact you by email tomorrow, probably.

[flusher317]

hmm flusher, how old are you?
whats the company going to be called?
dont make it something lame!!
i'd like to join

The company will definitely have an awesome name, but can't be released at the moment.
Send me an email with your resume and what subject you want to teach and why. Email add: [email protected]
If you honestly want to be a part of the team, give me a great reason why you want to be a part of it.
thanks
David

[excal]

See, if only you taught IT...