Lathe, drillpress, milling machine available, but.....

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 07:45:01 -0800, "RST Engineering"
wrote:



If it's not grade school kids I don't think most states have any
requirements. It doesn't even require a degree to teach at the
college level in many states. OTOH no many colleges will use a teacher
without a degree.

If it an "academic" subject (history, english, etc.) it requires a masters
degree for starters. For voc-ed, it requires either a masters, a bachelors

Not here. There are, or at least weren't any state requirements for
teachers above the high school level. The colleges and universities
set their own standards.

plus two years paid service in that vocation, or an associates plus five
years. There are a FEW of us old geezers around that got our commcoll
"credential" over 40 years ago, but even then it was for the subjects that
didn't have a degree program (like aviation ground school). If you wanted

Surprisingly, my ground school was a 4 college credit course and I
believe the instructor had his masters.

an academic credential or a voc ed credential way back then, it was a degree
plus experience for openers.

We have a great electronics prof in our department who has one of the best
teaching styles I've ever seen, but his bachelors is in history, with 25
years as a non-degreed electronics engineer. I know he can program rings
around me, and I don't think the degree did anything for him except teach
him how to teach.

And for me the degree didn't teach me anything about teaching. :-))
It sure did open up a lot of doors though.

I find many companies care more about the degree than they do the
persons capabilities.



One of the best computer architecture and machine language instructors
at one of the colleges I attended here in Michigan had never been to
college. He did pick up a few courses after he'd been teaching for
something like 12 to 15 years. A few years back they decided he
should have a degree so they sent him to another university to get his
teaching degree. (they were paying) Unfortunately, the other
university would not accept his 12 to 15 years of teaching as
experience and said he had to do the student teaching part of the
course which is not needed for teaching above the high school level.
Although he was almost ready to graduate and only needed that student
teaching part, he couldn't afford to continue to go without pay for
that much longer. So, now he's out working in industry.

I taught some Vo Ed classes before I went back to college to get my
degree.

This is for community college in California only. I don't speak for the
university system or any other state, but I know of no university teacher
without at least a bachelors and working on a masters.

Many of our universities around here use "adjunct" faculty for evening
classes and although there is no formal requirement, I don't know of
any at present that will take some one without a degree, but there are
many teaching physics, chemistry, and astronomy with just a bachelors
degree.



C is average which is supposed to indicate adequate knowledge. B is
above average.

That used to be true. Current thinking is that a C is "just barely
passing", a D is unsatisfactory work, and F is failure. I don't want "just
barely passing" flailing around on my lathe.

Again that depends on the state and grading system. Here at least at
the university level most grade on the curve so I always hoped I
didn't end up in a class with 3 or 4 geniuses which would put an A out
of the question. Here, the peak of the curve is considered average.
OTOH they had just added "Writing across the curriculum" when I
started back to college so while most of the students groaned at the
thought I took the opportunity to gain a few points.

At least we don't still have "outcome based education" in the high
schools, but the "no child left behind" program is almost as bad in
some areas. They keep putting the wrong people in charge of these
programs.



I think that is probably one of the few things that are cheaper in
Ca:-))

College, nasty women, avocados, and wine. All else is higher. {;-)

Certainly not property or the cost of living:-))

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com


Jim