I think I take offense at that remark.... I’m an engineer who has a teaching certificate in middle / high school math.
Personally I think engineers make the best math teachers. They have application experience and can bring it alive with actual problems, and labs.
Some math teachers use the state guidelines and simply teach the test or teach the book - which works but doesn’t inspire.
Ha, ok - my husband is a geochemist who adores his engineers and their real-world applications. Let me rephrase that so as to honor the engineers among us.
I am referring to one (used-to-be) engineer who later taught at the local high school. My students could not understand her presentation of algebra. It was her first year, so there’s another minus. She had absolutely zero understanding of how 9th graders thought - not all of them are yet conceptual thinkers - and zero tolerance of having to explain things a second time or another way. Students were miserable, she was self-righteous.
She told my one student - at a conference WITH the parents and in front of the student - ‘your daughter will never do well in algebra. She should just get out right now (it was 3 weeks into the school year!!). Mom was apoplectic. Daughter was the most studious, determined kid I ever taught, and very polite.
Ha, ok - my husband is a geochemist who adores his engineers and their real-world applications. Let me rephrase that so as to honor the engineers among us.
I am referring to one (used-to-be) engineer who later taught at the local high school. My students could not understand her presentation of algebra. It was her first year, so there’s another minus. She had absolutely zero understanding of how 9th graders thought - not all of them are yet conceptual thinkers - and zero tolerance of having to explain things a second time or another way. Students were miserable, she was self-righteous.
She told my one student - at a conference WITH the parents and in front of the student - ‘your daughter will never do well in algebra. She should just get out right now (it was 3 weeks into the school year!!). Mom was apoplectic. Daughter was the most studious, determined kid I ever taught, and very polite.
Ha, ok - my husband is a geochemist who adores his engineers and their real-world applications. Let me rephrase that so as to honor the engineers among us.
I am referring to one (used-to-be) engineer who later taught at the local high school. My students could not understand her presentation of algebra. It was her first year, so there’s another minus. She had absolutely zero understanding of how 9th graders thought - not all of them are yet conceptual thinkers - and zero tolerance of having to explain things a second time or another way. Students were miserable, she was self-righteous.
She told my one student - at a conference WITH the parents and in front of the student - ‘your daughter will never do well in algebra. She should just get out right now (it was 3 weeks into the school year!!). Mom was apoplectic. Daughter was the most studious, determined kid I ever taught, and very polite.