<p>I was told that Physics teacher are notorious for being bad "teachers." Is this true? I have physics this year and I agree with that assumption. Anyone object?</p>
<p>Maybe. I took the class last year, and at the beginning of the year I didn’t like the class - I felt like he never taught and the material was frustrating - I was used to lectures/notetaking, and his class was more lectures when people have specific questions and otherwise labwork - but after a while I liked that way. He was actually one of my favorite teachers I’ve had</p>
<p>Two of my best teachers (one in high school, one in college) taught me physics.</p>
<p>Same situation here.</p>
<p>Maybe Physics is just hard to teach. YOU just have to practice a lot and to think like a physician in order to succeed.</p>
<p>Last year when we were exploring colleges, I remember watching a video featuring a physics professor at Macalester College. The professor is Jim Doyle in Applied Physics, the video is called, “Harnessing the Sun”.
[Macalester</a> Admissions - VISUAL TOUR](<a href=“http://www.macalester.edu/admissions/visualtour/movies/]Macalester”>http://www.macalester.edu/admissions/visualtour/movies/)</p>
<p>Well, it’s just a little 3 minute, 45 second Quicktime movie. But he impressed me as a likable person, apparently working closely with students in a “hot” field, and probably a superb teacher.</p>
<p>As a high school teacher/administrator, I can attest to the fact that physics are hard to find. If you find a good one you do all you can to hang on to him/her. Since so few physics-certified teachers are out there, high schools are a little more willing to take a chance on somebody. Sometimes these folks don’t work out.</p>
<p>In my state, on a given testing day roughly 3000 people sat for the teacher-licensing exams. Of that number, roughly 90 tested in biology, 20 in chemistry, and only about 7 in physics!! Good science teachers are damn hard to find!</p>
<p>True for me. Most of my science teachers have been a little quirky, but my physics teacher is just down right awful. She tries to teach us, but she makes so many mistakes and half the time she does not know what she is doing. To make things worse, we don’t have a book. </p>
<p>I’ve tried going online to find formulas and help, but if we don’t show the right work and use the right formulas she likes, we lose all the points, even if the answer is right.</p>
<p>I’ve even thought about being a pilot, and thought taking AP Physics would be cool, but I’ve barely been able to stand 3 months with this teacher.
Needless to say, everyone in my class is very frustrated. But I’m happy, senior year I won’t have to take any science classes :)</p>
<p>At my s’s HS, the class known to be one of the hardest, but best classes was 11th gr Honors Physics. The teacher retired just after younger s completed his class (he was semi-retired but came back just to teach that class,thank heavens). Everyone who was in the sciences wanted to be in that class. It was an institution. I felt sorry for the guy who taught AP Physics (both classes) and the Astronomy/Geology class after all the kids had been through that spectacular 11th gr class. Tough act to follow. Puth the AP teacher knew what he was up against. He’d taken 11th grade physics from that very same teacher when he was a student at the HS!!</p>
<p>My physics teacher is awful, just awful. Really smart guy, used to be an engineer of some sort for hewlett-packard, but he is a bad teacher and flips out on the class regularly.</p>
<p>When I was a freshman/sophomore in high school, we had these two physics teacher who everyone just <em>loved</em>. Everyone thought they were amazing; they had great track records on the APs, etc. They both ended up leaving the school for various reasons, so we got 2 new physics teachers, both of which aren’t so great. One is just really bad all around. The other is an absolutely <em>brilliant</em> physicist, but not the best teacher. I wonder if that might be one explanation - being a great physicist and a great teacher are quite different.</p>
<p>When D was a senior, the Physics 2 H teacher approached her to come back to the class (D had taken it as a junior) and teach one of the sections. D did lectures and worked with the teams of students. Had something to do with robotics or robots. Physics teacher got D excused from her Chem 2 H class to do it. The next time teacher came to D, D politely declined. D really liked Physics teacher but said the teacher had a hard time explaining concepts so the students got them.</p>
<p>Many high school physics teachers did not major in physics. Sometimes they majored in physics and are very bright, but can’t explain it to other people. But probably the biggest reasons physics teachers are notorious is because physicists usually go on to do something that pays more than high schools pay.</p>
<p>I have a very good physics teacher. He’s got a master’s in Physics from UW Madison and is extremely personable, clear, coherent, and helpful. He uses technology in his class in a very cool way (we use an online homework program) and is willing to stay late after school or early before school to help you out if you don’t understand something. One of my favorite classes and I hate science, generally speaking.</p>
<p>Many high school physics teachers did not major in physics. Sometimes they majored in physics and are very bright, but can’t explain it to other people. But probably the biggest reasons physics teachers are notorious is because physicists usually go on to do something that pays more than high schools pay.</p>
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<p>Yep, mine majored in psychology…no joke.</p>
<p>There are a lot of people returning to the classroom to teach, and many didnt major in the subject they are teaching. Teaching, IMO, is a skill–some aere good at it, and some are not, regardless of the subject.</p>
<p>My physics teacher is actually very good in my opinion - not that I have a basis of comparison, but he usually explains things very comprehensively (when he feels like it) and gives lots of examples.</p>
<p>My favorite teacher in HS taught me Physics freshman year and Algebra II sophomore year, and AP Physics senior year (hopefully)…I learned a lot from him, I thought he was a great teacher.</p>
<p>There are no good physicists. They are all evil.</p>
<p>They already invented nuclear bombs and the metric system, and now they want to blow up the world.</p>
<p>Evil, evil, evil.</p>