It's interesting to teach outside your content area. I tried teaching chemistry last year, it was pretty miserable. It's a combination of hammering away properties of elements and measurements and sig. figs.
The class of physics is definitely easier and more interesting to teach. You have a group of students who are analytically competent and who are focused on doing well. Not that my genetics kids aren't, but there are a group of students who have yet to realize what their time in school is used for.
Tomorrow, we have some group of teachers and administrators from London who are going to observe what we do in my physics class. It's one of those abroad or outreach programs that tries to consolidate the global differences we encounter in education. So we try to implement what works over there in NYC and they try to implement what works over here in London. I'm guessing that they've got more effective teaching practices so we'd probably learn a lot more from observing their classes.
I wouldn't mind going to London. Sounds like an interesting trip, just got to avoid the hooligans...
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oh that would be awesome to get away from the kids!
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