Abstract
The transition from being a high school pupil to becoming a college (or university) student might place high requirements in terms of in the learning abilities and maturity. For most people the role of the college professor might seem quite similar to that of the high school teacher. However, as students differ from pupils, in age, knowledge and emotional tools, the requirements for lecturers at colleges and universities are quite different from the ones needed to be a high school teacher. It is no wonder that most lecturers do not hold a teaching diploma while it is a must for high school teacher. Teaching teenagers contains many aspects of social and emotional learning and teaching abilities, while teaching college students usually requires academic knowledge in a field of interest and a basic ability of transferring it. In this work the researcher uses his own experience as a college and university lecturer for almost 20 years and as a relatively new high school teacher to compare the two teaching experiences. The work compares teaching electrical engineering undergraduate courses at college to teaching high school physics to 14-16 years old pupils. The research combines data of several years of college teaching in groups of 30-40 students per class and the data of 4 high-school classes, containing similar numbers. The purpose of the work is to compare academic teaching to high-school (pre-academic) teaching in terms of personal attention, teaching techniques, grading methods and more, to determine what tools are suitable for which population.
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Eran Gur, Azrieli College of Engineering, Israel
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Conference: KCE2024
Stream: Teaching Experiences
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To cite this article:
Gur E. (2025) From College-Professor to School-Teacher: A Small Step for Students, a Giant Leap for Teachers, or Vice Versa? ISSN: 2759-7563 – The Korean Conference on Education 2024: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 237-244) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2759-7563.2024.18
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2759-7563.2024.18
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