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started by Michelle Osborne on 19 Feb 12
  • Michelle Osborne
    #1 Michelle Osborne on 19 Feb 12
     
    This article examines the hiring practices in Iowa of how being a history teacher is related to the ability to be able to coach. It suggest Iowa changes its hiring practices so that students learn more about History and so that more qualified teachers who aren't coaches are given a chance to teach history.
  • Joshua ROot
    #2 Joshua ROot on 24 Feb 12
     
    As a non-coaching history teacher, I applaud the proposed changes, so much so that I'd like to comment on it even though there is no link to the article. I was lucky enough in my personal experiences as a student (a history-loving student, to boot) to not have to suffer through coaches simply running through the motions as teachers. Now, most of my history teachers WERE coaches, but they were coaches just as dedicated, prepared, and enthusiastic about the classroom as any non-coaching teacher; sadly this is not always the case.
    So many adults look back on their history classes as wasted hours copying from textbooks thanks to indifferent coach-teachers. I feel a responsibility as a male, sports-loving history teacher (though not a coach, one in the coach mold) to create a classroom where history is a living, relevant, exciting subject, a far cry from the perception of history as the course you dump that academically homeless coach.
    And of course, it is the students who benefit.
  • Michelle Osborne
    #3 Michelle Osborne on 25 Feb 12

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