WWYD? No Physics teacher until "October" on 4x4 schedule

[Anonymous]

School without Walls is still missing several teachers. Not sure about other DCPS schools

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Anonymous wrote:My Wilson student is not a tenth grader yet, but there’s no way they could learn physics from a video produced by the College Board. And then be able to complete College Board assignments on their own? No.

If that would even be possible, there’d be no point in hiring actual teachers.

Also, I’m not sure how it would work for a student not focus on a course to which they are assigned. Okay with skipping the AP exam in any case. But presumably each student will get a grade? Based on what? Completion of rudderless on-line assignments?

You are doing that thing where someone offers a solution and you find a reason why it could never work for your kid. Email all parties in DCPS and your admin but recognize that AP Classroom is one of the best solutions at the moment.

If all you care about is a grade then I am sure your kid wi get an A because there is no one who knows a lick of physics in the school who will be grading the assignments. I am sure if will be on completion or they can do corrections or whatever. Guess what the admin REALLY doesn’t want to deal with? Not having a teacher and having kids get poor grades. Not gonna happen.

Um...do you know any of the Wilson teachers? Because that is patently untrue. Someone who knows quite a few licks of physics will be grading. Go take a walk outside. Beautiful day.

What does walking outside have anything to do with this? And who is going to be grading another teacher’s full roster of kids? You think the other physics teacher or science department chair is going to grade an extra 75 papers for each assignment on top of all of their other work? If they agree to that they are wonderful people but it will burn them out really quickly. Many teachers won’t agree to that so admin ends up grading the work. And they don’t know physics. So calm down on thinking I was insulting the abilities of the science department. They shouldn’t have to pick up the slack for DCPS’ issues.

As a science teacher at a different school, I’ve graded my colleagues’ papers on four different occasions/long term leave.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the Wilson parent who stepped up to provide AP Physics instruction in the interim!!!! Clear example of a parent going above and beyond.

This is great but does the long term sub actually know physics? AP Physics requires knowledge of college level physics and calculus.
My suggestion would be to have the kids watch Khan academy and do their practice assessments. Khan Academy offers an AP level physics curriculum. It is not amazing and no substitute for a teacher but it is pretty good. Wilson could also split up the kids into the AP Physics 1 classes. Their is a lot of overlap in AP1 mechanics and AP C mechanics especially for the first several weeks

I agree with your latter point. The teacher does know Physics and Calculus - engineering degree - though AP Physics 1 is all algebra. Ask questions first?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the Wilson parent who stepped up to provide AP Physics instruction in the interim!!!! Clear example of a parent going above and beyond.

This is great but does the long term sub actually know physics? AP Physics requires knowledge of college level physics and calculus.
My suggestion would be to have the kids watch Khan academy and do their practice assessments. Khan Academy offers an AP level physics curriculum. It is not amazing and no substitute for a teacher but it is pretty good. Wilson could also split up the kids into the AP Physics 1 classes. Their is a lot of overlap in AP1 mechanics and AP C mechanics especially for the first several weeks

I agree with your latter point. The teacher does know Physics and Calculus - engineering degree - though AP Physics 1 is all algebra. Ask questions first?

I have taught both AP Physics 1 and C. AP Physics C mechanics is similar to AP Physics 1 Mechanics with some calculus thrown in. Physics C E&M is, of course, completely different. The 4x4 schedule at Wilson makes this situation so much worse. Good for the parent for stepping up to help out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My Wilson student is not a tenth grader yet, but there’s no way they could learn physics from a video produced by the College Board. And then be able to complete College Board assignments on their own? No.

If that would even be possible, there’d be no point in hiring actual teachers.

Also, I’m not sure how it would work for a student not focus on a course to which they are assigned. Okay with skipping the AP exam in any case. But presumably each student will get a grade? Based on what? Completion of rudderless on-line assignments?

You are doing that thing where someone offers a solution and you find a reason why it could never work for your kid. Email all parties in DCPS and your admin but recognize that AP Classroom is one of the best solutions at the moment.

If all you care about is a grade then I am sure your kid wi get an A because there is no one who knows a lick of physics in the school who will be grading the assignments. I am sure if will be on completion or they can do corrections or whatever. Guess what the admin REALLY doesn’t want to deal with? Not having a teacher and having kids get poor grades. Not gonna happen.

Um...do you know any of the Wilson teachers? Because that is patently untrue. Someone who knows quite a few licks of physics will be grading. Go take a walk outside. Beautiful day.

What does walking outside have anything to do with this? And who is going to be grading another teacher’s full roster of kids? You think the other physics teacher or science department chair is going to grade an extra 75 papers for each assignment on top of all of their other work? If they agree to that they are wonderful people but it will burn them out really quickly. Many teachers won’t agree to that so admin ends up grading the work. And they don’t know physics. So calm down on thinking I was insulting the abilities of the science department. They shouldn’t have to pick up the slack for DCPS’ issues.

As a science teacher at a different school, I’ve graded my colleagues’ papers on four different occasions/long term leave.

Do you get paid extra? I am a fairly new teacher and drowning in grading. I would have a breakdown if I had to pick up someone else’s grading as well as my own. Especially, with kids wanting to retake tests and district policy is to allow that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My Wilson student is not a tenth grader yet, but there’s no way they could learn physics from a video produced by the College Board. And then be able to complete College Board assignments on their own? No.

If that would even be possible, there’d be no point in hiring actual teachers.

Also, I’m not sure how it would work for a student not focus on a course to which they are assigned. Okay with skipping the AP exam in any case. But presumably each student will get a grade? Based on what? Completion of rudderless on-line assignments?

You are doing that thing where someone offers a solution and you find a reason why it could never work for your kid. Email all parties in DCPS and your admin but recognize that AP Classroom is one of the best solutions at the moment.

If all you care about is a grade then I am sure your kid wi get an A because there is no one who knows a lick of physics in the school who will be grading the assignments. I am sure if will be on completion or they can do corrections or whatever. Guess what the admin REALLY doesn’t want to deal with? Not having a teacher and having kids get poor grades. Not gonna happen.

Um...do you know any of the Wilson teachers? Because that is patently untrue. Someone who knows quite a few licks of physics will be grading. Go take a walk outside. Beautiful day.

What does walking outside have anything to do with this? And who is going to be grading another teacher’s full roster of kids? You think the other physics teacher or science department chair is going to grade an extra 75 papers for each assignment on top of all of their other work? If they agree to that they are wonderful people but it will burn them out really quickly. Many teachers won’t agree to that so admin ends up grading the work. And they don’t know physics. So calm down on thinking I was insulting the abilities of the science department. They shouldn’t have to pick up the slack for DCPS’ issues.

As a science teacher at a different school, I’ve graded my colleagues’ papers on four different occasions/long term leave.

Do you get paid extra? I am a fairly new teacher and drowning in grading. I would have a breakdown if I had to pick up someone else’s grading as well as my own. Especially, with kids wanting to retake tests and district policy is to allow that

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I think if my admin asked me to do that I would say no or that they can only give multiple choice that I would grade. I’ve taken on extra courses twice in my teaching career and I would never do it again. They could fire me, but they wouldn’t because they already have vacancies to fill! And I know I could find a job elsewhere if it was that bad.

[Anonymous]

No, I wasn’t paid for the grading.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the Wilson parent who stepped up to provide AP Physics instruction in the interim!!!! Clear example of a parent going above and beyond.

This is great but does the long term sub actually know physics? AP Physics requires knowledge of college level physics and calculus.
My suggestion would be to have the kids watch Khan academy and do their practice assessments. Khan Academy offers an AP level physics curriculum. It is not amazing and no substitute for a teacher but it is pretty good. Wilson could also split up the kids into the AP Physics 1 classes. Their is a lot of overlap in AP1 mechanics and AP C mechanics especially for the first several weeks

I agree with your latter point. The teacher does know Physics and Calculus - engineering degree - though AP Physics 1 is all algebra. Ask questions first?

The PP literally did ask the question. Can you read?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the Wilson parent who stepped up to provide AP Physics instruction in the interim!!!! Clear example of a parent going above and beyond.

This is great but does the long term sub actually know physics? AP Physics requires knowledge of college level physics and calculus.
My suggestion would be to have the kids watch Khan academy and do their practice assessments. Khan Academy offers an AP level physics curriculum. It is not amazing and no substitute for a teacher but it is pretty good. Wilson could also split up the kids into the AP Physics 1 classes. Their is a lot of overlap in AP1 mechanics and AP C mechanics especially for the first several weeks

I agree with your latter point. The teacher does know Physics and Calculus - engineering degree - though AP Physics 1 is all algebra. Ask questions first?

The PP literally did ask the question. Can you read?

Apparently you can't. PP assumed the worst, gave false information and made suggestions without finding out the facts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the Wilson parent who stepped up to provide AP Physics instruction in the interim!!!! Clear example of a parent going above and beyond.

This is great but does the long term sub actually know physics? AP Physics requires knowledge of college level physics and calculus.
My suggestion would be to have the kids watch Khan academy and do their practice assessments. Khan Academy offers an AP level physics curriculum. It is not amazing and no substitute for a teacher but it is pretty good. Wilson could also split up the kids into the AP Physics 1 classes. Their is a lot of overlap in AP1 mechanics and AP C mechanics especially for the first several weeks

The Wilson mom sub does not know how to teach physics- no. Apparently she worked in a physics related job. She lectures for approximately 30 minutes and then tells kids to read the chapter and do worksheets. The class went from chapter 1 and then skipped to chapter 18. None of this “instruction” is translating. We need a physics teacher… could care less where their children go to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the Wilson parent who stepped up to provide AP Physics instruction in the interim!!!! Clear example of a parent going above and beyond.

This is great but does the long term sub actually know physics? AP Physics requires knowledge of college level physics and calculus.
My suggestion would be to have the kids watch Khan academy and do their practice assessments. Khan Academy offers an AP level physics curriculum. It is not amazing and no substitute for a teacher but it is pretty good. Wilson could also split up the kids into the AP Physics 1 classes. Their is a lot of overlap in AP1 mechanics and AP C mechanics especially for the first several weeks

I agree with your latter point. The teacher does know Physics and Calculus - engineering degree - though AP Physics 1 is all algebra. Ask questions first?

The PP literally did ask the question. Can you read?

I see we have learned English semantics without concurrent knowledge of pragmatics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the Wilson parent who stepped up to provide AP Physics instruction in the interim!!!! Clear example of a parent going above and beyond.

This is great but does the long term sub actually know physics? AP Physics requires knowledge of college level physics and calculus.
My suggestion would be to have the kids watch Khan academy and do their practice assessments. Khan Academy offers an AP level physics curriculum. It is not amazing and no substitute for a teacher but it is pretty good. Wilson could also split up the kids into the AP Physics 1 classes. Their is a lot of overlap in AP1 mechanics and AP C mechanics especially for the first several weeks

The Wilson mom sub does not know how to teach physics- no. Apparently she worked in a physics related job. She lectures for approximately 30 minutes and then tells kids to read the chapter and do worksheets. The class went from chapter 1 and then skipped to chapter 18. None of this “instruction” is translating. We need a physics teacher… could care less where their children go to school.

That doesn't sound like she doesn't have training in physics. She isn't trained as a teacher., but this doesn't sound awful at all. I would like to see you step up to give a daily 30 minute lecture in physics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the Wilson parent who stepped up to provide AP Physics instruction in the interim!!!! Clear example of a parent going above and beyond.

This is great but does the long term sub actually know physics? AP Physics requires knowledge of college level physics and calculus.
My suggestion would be to have the kids watch Khan academy and do their practice assessments. Khan Academy offers an AP level physics curriculum. It is not amazing and no substitute for a teacher but it is pretty good. Wilson could also split up the kids into the AP Physics 1 classes. Their is a lot of overlap in AP1 mechanics and AP C mechanics especially for the first several weeks

The Wilson mom sub does not know how to teach physics- no. Apparently she worked in a physics related job. She lectures for approximately 30 minutes and then tells kids to read the chapter and do worksheets. The class went from chapter 1 and then skipped to chapter 18. None of this “instruction” is translating. We need a physics teacher… could care less where their children go to school.

That doesn't sound like she doesn't have training in physics. She isn't trained as a teacher., but this doesn't sound awful at all. I would like to see you step up to give a daily 30 minute lecture in physics.

This sounds far less than ideal. I’m glad she stepped up though. Physics C is actually a double period class. The textbook is a college textbook. Very difficult to read and understand and do the problems independently for most kids. Is she able to help do the problems. There is a good website for AP Physics C called Flipping Physics. Kids can watch the videos that cover all the topics. I think the AP Physics 1 teachers at Wilson use Flipping Physics. Flipping Physics has AP Physics C as well

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the Wilson parent who stepped up to provide AP Physics instruction in the interim!!!! Clear example of a parent going above and beyond.

This is great but does the long term sub actually know physics? AP Physics requires knowledge of college level physics and calculus.
My suggestion would be to have the kids watch Khan academy and do their practice assessments. Khan Academy offers an AP level physics curriculum. It is not amazing and no substitute for a teacher but it is pretty good. Wilson could also split up the kids into the AP Physics 1 classes. Their is a lot of overlap in AP1 mechanics and AP C mechanics especially for the first several weeks

The Wilson mom sub does not know how to teach physics- no. Apparently she worked in a physics related job. She lectures for approximately 30 minutes and then tells kids to read the chapter and do worksheets. The class went from chapter 1 and then skipped to chapter 18. None of this “instruction” is translating. We need a physics teacher… could care less where their children go to school.

That doesn't sound like she doesn't have training in physics. She isn't trained as a teacher., but this doesn't sound awful at all. I would like to see you step up to give a daily 30 minute lecture in physics.

Huh? You’re not making sense. She doesn’t know how to teach the material to high school kids… how is this helpful at all? Why would anyone think they’re qualified to teach just because they once worked on a nuclear reactor program. It’s ridiculous. I would never assume I was qualified to teach high school government just because I was a government consultant. What is wrong with you people?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the Wilson parent who stepped up to provide AP Physics instruction in the interim!!!! Clear example of a parent going above and beyond.

This is great but does the long term sub actually know physics? AP Physics requires knowledge of college level physics and calculus.
My suggestion would be to have the kids watch Khan academy and do their practice assessments. Khan Academy offers an AP level physics curriculum. It is not amazing and no substitute for a teacher but it is pretty good. Wilson could also split up the kids into the AP Physics 1 classes. Their is a lot of overlap in AP1 mechanics and AP C mechanics especially for the first several weeks

The Wilson mom sub does not know how to teach physics- no. Apparently she worked in a physics related job. She lectures for approximately 30 minutes and then tells kids to read the chapter and do worksheets. The class went from chapter 1 and then skipped to chapter 18. None of this “instruction” is translating. We need a physics teacher… could care less where their children go to school.

That doesn't sound like she doesn't have training in physics. She isn't trained as a teacher., but this doesn't sound awful at all. I would like to see you step up to give a daily 30 minute lecture in physics.

Huh? You’re not making sense. She doesn’t know how to teach the material to high school kids… how is this helpful at all? Why would anyone think they’re qualified to teach just because they once worked on a nuclear reactor program. It’s ridiculous. I would never assume I was qualified to teach high school government just because I was a government consultant. What is wrong with you people?

No one is saying this is a perfect solution. It is better than what's happening in the other class with a sub who doesn't seem to know any of the material. However, I don't believe that a person who has volunteered to step in and a school administration who has accepted the help believe she is 100% UNqualified.