In Defense of Hagrid

[Sherry]

No: HPFGUIDX 143904

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hickengruendler"
<hickengruendler at y...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:
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> > 
> > Let's look carefully at Hagrid. He is, if not uneducted, then at 
> least
> > under-educated. He is a simple man with definitely no formal 
> training
> > in teaching methods. 
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> Hickengruendler:
> 
> That's why he shouldn't teach. At least not without some training. 

Amontillada:

That raises an interesting question: What sort of preparation do the
Hogwarts teachers have for lesson planning, classroom management,
discipline, or any of the other specific skills called for in
teachers. The WW in Great Britain contains nothing comparable, for
example, to Education or Teacher-Training at colleges in the United
States (I don't know how such programs would be offered or structured
elsewhere).

As has been mentioned here at various times, Hogwarts contains
elements of British school structures from some time in the past,
rather than those of today. Education or Teacher-Training programs
have only existed for about the last 100 years in the U.S. We have
also been told, in canon, that there isn't a Magical university system
comparable to that found in Great Britain. Magical specialists in
fields that call for further education seem to receive it in
job-specific training.

In general, Hogwarts faculty may well learn teaching skills in
practice, or by help and advice from their colleagues. If that's the
case, Hagrid's big problem may be that he's relatively solitary,
doesn't often interact with the other teachers, or that he can't bring
himself to ask for help. In that case, as much as I hate to blame
things on Dumbledore, this may be a case where he should have taken
more direct action instead of waiting for Hagrid to act on his own behalf.

Amontillada