<p>I feel offended that my little joke didn’t get the acclaim I wished. </p>
<p>Sorry I’m a pompous ■■■■■■■ =]</p>
<p>^ Nooo! Now THAT’S racist. x[</p>
<p>well back to the purpose of the post… my ap history teacher last year was only 24-25 y.o-- just graduated college (many of the powerpoint presentations were actually just borrowed from his professors). it was his first ap class.</p>
<p>i got a 4. i thought he was fine. he was funny and knew how to teach the high schoolers in our school</p>
<p>Young teachers = possibly know the AP Material more if they ever took that class/ easier to get used to teaching AP Material since they’re fresher. Just my take.</p>
<p>Some of my best teachers are the youngest ones. Often the old ones fall into a rut and aren’t that passionate.</p>
<p>My best teachers have always been fresh out of college. They know their stuff because they just studied it in depth for four years. They have the passion for the subject still because they haven’t been beaten down by years of work. I love young teachers.</p>
<p>My AP Stats teacher started teaching last year and this is his second year teaching. He started off with AP Stats last year, too. So far, he’s been pretty good.</p>
<p>My worst teacher EVER was a guy who had been teaching for forty years and he was our AP US teacher. He was terrible.</p>
<p>Also… Last year, I understood math so much clearly when we had a sub who had just graduated from college come in and teach. His sister was in one of his classes. He had graduated from our school only four years earlier… but he was really good and basically he saved my grade in pre-cal. XD</p>
<p>I love young teachers so much more than old teachers. They just teach better in my opinion.</p>
<p>I thought this thread was going to be something entirely different…</p>
<p>Funny. I did too. haha</p>
<p>I think that a young teacher can be good and bad.
First, he has energy and the passion to teach. So maybe the class will be more interesting.
On the other hand, he lacks experience (of course) and he probably doesn’t know the AP USH test as well as veteran teachers. My older AP teachers can predict exam topics so they teach effectively. I had an AP USH teacher last year who taught for 5 years. He tired to engage us but he didn’t tell us the BIG, IMPORTANT TOPICS. So the class became very mono-tone. Cramming 3 centuries of history means you have to learn the important ideas and leave out the nit picky stuff.</p>