The worst, most ineffective teachers I ever had were math teachers. (And I'm good in math.)
There are many components that make a good teacher. One of those is "character" and that is not measured by sats.
“The worst, most ineffective teachers I ever had were math teachers. (And I’m good in math.)”
Me too! Math was a jumble until College. At that point, the math tutors were all engineering students who said, “Don’t try to memorize the formulas in the books, just do it this way.”
The short cuts and tips were invaluable. I finally understood.
Math teachers are teaching without understanding the subject. If one doesn’t understand it, one cannot teach it.
I think the numbers mean that non-teaching pure math majors have the highest SAT score while ed majors (math or otherwise) are the lowest.
Tell me about it. I got a 600 on the math portion of the SAT (did much better in verbal), but for the life of me, I could not pass a college-level math class. That forced me to switch majors. As old as the excuse goes, I blame the professors. Their ability to effectively communicate was so horrible, I doubt they could even place an order through a drive-thru.
I had a Chinese math TA who kept talking about “Chen Wu”. Finally figgered out he was saying “Chain Rule”.
Another is passion and deep understanding of the subject matter. Not this ‘just stay one step ahead of the 10th graders crap that the NEA put out).
A teacher should at *least* minor in what they intend to teach the fact I had grade school homeroom teachers that could not spell has not helped me in life *at all* no matter how good their character might be. The cranky old teacher my mother hired as a teacher, otoh, was priceless in making me borderline literate ;)
The ones that were ed majors?