How qualified/erudite are your teachers?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>How many, if any, hold doctorates or similar degrees? My school has a couple of pHDs to speak of, and nearly every teacher has a masters, and most boast more than one.</p>

<p>In terms of actual punditry, we have a bit of a mixed bag. One religion teacher is quite knowledgeable of the various rudiments of philosophy, whereas the philosophy teacher is absolutely ignorant of them. One science teacher can't answer questions pertaining to his subject of study and scholarship, while another will entertain the most whimsical of theoretical physics, and explain the nuances behind them with the greatest of clarity and ease.</p>

<p>How do your teachers compare? Have you any teachers less learned on the subject of study than yourself? On average, what degree do they hold?</p>

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<p>I only know of 1 or 2 teachers who hold Doctorates at my high school, and I don't know of any PhD's. However, most teachers have at least one Masters, and several have more than one.</p>

<p>Almost every teacher knows their subject very well. Except for this one math teacher who never does crap.</p>

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<p>I know of one teacher who has a PhD and he is probably one of the best teachers in the school.</p>

<p>Basically all AP and honors teachers have at least one Masters and there is only one teacher that I have found to be completely incompetent throughout my entire high school career.</p>

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<p>My school has one teacher with a PhD. A chemistry PhD.
She teaches algebra II.
Yeah.</p>

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<p>I don't think any of my regular teachers held a Ph.D., although a substitute teacher (he was full-time, but sort-of-retired before I had him as a sub) had a Ph.D. in English. I believe that all our teachers are required to have a master's degree in teaching, and some have master's degrees in other areas as well. I know that a few of my teachers went to quite prestigious universities (Yale, MIT, Wesleyan) for undergrad, for what it's worth.</p>

<p>I find that most of my teachers are very well-versed in their subject (history teachers aside- I've had problems with them, for whatever reason)- the problem seems to be that they don't always know the best way to explain to us students, the ones without years of experience in their field, what they know. It's particularly bad in math: between 7th grade and graduation, I had only two teachers in the subject who really knew how to teach.</p>

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<p>^^ Same at my school with the math. They just have no idea how to teach.</p>

<p>Sometimes having a Masters doesn't automatically make a teacher qualified. My English teacher in 10th grade got a Masters degree in English online, and sat around talking about her cheating husband the entire year (no joke at all). There is only one teacher with a PhD at my school, and he teaches all the lower level science classes and no honors or APs. I feel bad that he is stuck teaching the kids who don't want to learn.</p>

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<p>My HUSH/APEH teacher was a Ph.D., and the AP Physics teacher had <em>3</em> doctorates.</p>

<p>There was also a Chemistry teacher who had a Ph.D. in, like, Botany or something.</p>

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<p>My AP Chem teacher is the only one I know of that has a Ph.D. and he's a total moron.</p>

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<p>Absolutely no idea yet, only had 6 teachers so far and 1/2 are decent, the other 1/2 are...</p>

<p>I'll leave that to you to insert a word.</p>

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<p>All the teachers at my school only hold a bachelors degree. How pathetic right?</p>

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<p>My freshman and sophomore English teachers had Ph.D's. Both were also brilliant teachers.</p>

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<p>I only know of one teacher with a PhD in my school; it's in philosophy. He teaches APUSH. My former British literature teacher was getting his PhD as well. Most teachers here have masters, the main exceptions being young teachers who have just finished college and student-teaching.</p>

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<p>I only know of 1 or 2 teachers who hold Doctorates at my high school, and I don't know of any PhD's. However, most teachers have at least one Masters, and several have more than one.</p>

<p>... the 1 or 2 teachers who hold non-PhD Doctorates... I'm a little confused. Could you clarify? Do they have a DEng? I thought those were pretty rare. Or do they have professional degrees like a JD or MD?</p>

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<p>I know of a couple of teachers with their doctorates.
2 teach Chem, I think.
1 teaches History/AP Gov.
1 teaches English (She is the stupidest teacher ever).</p>

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<p>my AP world teacher was really good, I'm not sure if he had a PhD but he was a grader for collegeboard once or something. and then there is my english teacher who JUST graduated from college..... she still thinks like she's a students.</p>

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<p>Not very, idiots. Though I had an AMAZING 8th grade history teacher. </p>

<p>And why do you have to wait 60 seconds in between posts? That is so stupid. CC needs to relax. Censorship is destructive to the psyche and also to the amount of people visit this website.</p>

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<p>According to my school's website, 90% of the upper school faculty have at least a master's level education.
But then again I went to a private school.</p>

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<p>^ That's still pretty impressive. I doubt even 10% have their masters at my public school.</p>

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<p>Do you guys have any idea what the average salary is of teachers in your school or district? I think the average in my district is something like $42K/yr plus benefits (the works).</p>

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<p>3 Masters. And stop using convoluted SAT words.</p>