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Re:Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biol... by madcaptenor on Friday March 30, 2018 @10:58AM (#16716608)
I wonder how they schedule that. Does that mean that all PE classes (assuming PE is part of the "unimportant" category) are either at the beginning or the end of the day? What does the PE teacher do in the middle of the day, then?
Re:Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biol... by cmpb on Friday March 30, 2018 @11:08AM (#16716690)
Often PE teachers (and coaches) are also teachers. My civics, geography and geometry teachers were all football coaches. Incidentally, they were also not very learned in their respective courses.
Re:Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biol... by importantbrian on Friday March 30, 2018 @11:26AM (#16716857)
This was the same for us. The exception was the teacher that made me fall in love with history as a subject. He was also an assistant basketball coach, but he was passionate about history.
Re:Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biol... by hysan on Friday March 30, 2018 @11:09AM (#16716696)
Teach health? Sex Ed? Preparation and setup? My PE teachers in JHS and HS were more than just PE teachers. Was my school just an outlier?
Re:Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biol... by jeffcore on Friday March 30, 2018 @02:39PM (#16718698)
It probably depends on the size of the school or school district.

I went to large schools for both MS and HS, and all of our PE teachers only taught PE throughout the day, as it was offered all seven class periods as there were simply too many students to only offer the class two to three periods.

In HS, freshman tended to have the largest class sizes as they only had two class periods to choose from, and were split between male and female. They'd rotate through all sports during the school year. All other years got to choose their class period and were able to select the sport(s) they wanted, and would rotate through different teachers quarterly, within that same class period, based on those selections.

Coaches that only taught electives usually rotated in teaching Health/Sex Ed and Driver's Ed.

Re:Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biol... by squeaky-clean on Friday March 30, 2018 @03:19PM (#16718996)
Yeah my high school had 2,500 students, there's no way they could've even fit everyone onto the field in the morning let alone have the staff to handle that.
Re:Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biol... by Spooky23 on Friday March 30, 2018 @12:13PM (#16717344)
It depends on the school and the state.

I went to a small district where they shared roles. My wife went to a huge school where the PE teachers taught only PE and were paid coached as well.

In some districts, you need certification in a subject... a gym teacher can’t teach math.

Re:Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biol... by solarkraft on Friday March 30, 2018 @12:55PM (#16717743)
And they couldn't be certified for both? In NRW, Germany afaik (almost) all teachers have two or more roles.
Re:Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biol... by Spooky23 on Friday March 30, 2018 @02:24PM (#16718573)
Probably -- I think the specifics vary from place to place.