Blair SMACS Teachers Qn.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not a good idea to learn college materials taught by high school teachers. Not to say they aren’t qualified, you just don’t get the breath and depth from a college professor who are at the forefront of the field. I’d rather let DC learn the materials at college.

Ok, then you do that.

My Blair SMACS kid was in a math class taught by Mr. Schwartz, who has an advanced math degree (MA or PhD, forget which), and the students got university credit after taking a test created and administered by the math department at the U. of Maryland.

We're good, thanks, but you do you.

My magnet kid also placed out of both semesters of intro calc (5 on Calc BC), linear algebra, discrete math, the first two CS classes, and an additional 3-4 gen ed requirements. Maybe ten classes in total. Made it easy to graduate with an MSCS in four years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a thread about one of the math teachers and it was pretty bad. They also talked about her on the listserv.

The only bad math teacher mine had was a guy. He does not give good feedback or answer questions (he literally says "I'm not going to answer that") or explain. He wastes his planning period trying to act cool and "hang" with students from other classes and told the class he was on Twitter when he should have been grading. Grades late. Full of bias and fosters a bro culture.

But, the rest were fantastic-- so passionate about the subject matter and great teachers. In depth teaching of the material with proof based everything. Students really understand the underlying concepts. Mine is a freshman in college and already halfway through a math major because of the excellent math teaching at Blair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not a good idea to learn college materials taught by high school teachers. Not to say they aren’t qualified, you just don’t get the breath and depth from a college professor who are at the forefront of the field. I’d rather let DC learn the materials at college.

Mine placed out of Calc (5 on AP), Multi Var (took umd test) and Linear Algebra. Math major at an Ivy, doing great. Schwartz prepared them very well and is highly qualified academically. He could easily be teaching at umd.