• Question: have you ever wanted to teach your field of work to students our age (yr 8)

    Asked by anon-214440 to Dave on 19 Jun 2019.
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      Dave Underhill answered on 19 Jun 2019:

      I have in the past, but teaching secondary education is really difficult and I haven’t got the right personality for it really. I prefer teaching at higher levels but firmly believe archaeology, and particularly human evolution should be taught in secondary schools

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    Farah commented on :

    Many years ago I used to tutor children in a tuition centre on the weekends. The ages of children ranged from year 7-13. I really enjoyed it actually. I said that if I wasn’t a scientist, then I’d be a secondary school teacher. I think it’s vital that children particularly in secondary school, learn about mental health and wellbeing (my area of research). So yes I would like to teach children in Year 8 about my research. In fact that overlaps with what I’d like to do with the money if I won; I’d like to develop workshops on technology and mental health, for both school children and teachers.