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Depends what BETTER means to you...To me, getting a job is the most important...To carry that over to your poll, popularity...An interviewer will be impressed by MTI, but not the other three items...
Another aspect, in regards to the quality of elementary, middle, and high schools would be the involvement of parents/caregivers... both at home and with the teachers/administration. That I believe is quite critical - they must be supportive and involved, with the homework, with the programs, the classes, etc., being proactive, interactive, and engaged w/ what is going on.
Originally posted by ShadowCaver
Another aspect, in regards to the quality of elementary, middle, and high schools would be the involvement of parents/caregivers... both at home and with the teachers/administration. That I believe is quite critical - they must be supportive and involved, with the homework, with the programs, the classes, etc., being proactive, interactive, and engaged w/ what is going on.
I completely agree. While quality teachers, many programs and good administration are critical, all of that will be met with limited success if the community itself doesn't value education.
The fruit doesn't fall too far from the tree. And a tree can be judged by it's fruit.
What are the students that have gone to that school doing today? More going to college, more passing standardized tests? This is what I would look for.
I think being a good teacher is almost a skill you are born with. You can have graduated magna *** laude from an Ivy League school and still be a bad teacher.
There are college professors (and even High School and Middle School teachers) that are so good that you just want to take whatever classes they are teaching. I don't think that has anything to do with where they are teaching or any of the criteria listed above.
Finding the right school for anyone is more a matter of fit then how it looks on paper. And that's why there is so much trouble for most people trying to figure out the best college - because there is no one BEST college.
Anyway, for me, their education background definitely is the first impression.
Um, not really. I had a professor in college with this education background:
BA from Brown. MS (physiology) from Harvard. PhD (nutritional biochemistry & physiology) from Tufts. He wasn't a particularly good teacher.
I've had professors from everywhere who were good and bad.
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