Teaching at Hogwarts

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I've been listening to the Harry Potter series, nearly finished book 3, and it has set me thinking about the teaching there.

None of the staff seem to have a teaching qualification or any training, just rock up at the school and go.

Hagrid's first lesson Malfoy gets attacked, as a science teacher you wouldn't try a risky practical without knowing the class first.

Supervision in the house areas, is there any at all? Ever?

Have you read anything about teachers/teaching/schools that has made you smile?

I always wondered why, in the Enid Blyton school books, none of the the teachers were ever married! I believe now they didn't employ married women and if you wanted to marry you would be required to leave??

Other than Snape and McGonnagal nobody at Hogwarts actually has control of their classroom.

I think the staff team sound quite 'us and them' depending on whether you are mates with Dumbledore or not.

Sounds amazing though, I'd take a job in a heartbeat.

They all have control apart from hagrid and dada. Think bins, Flitwick etc.
The kids seem mostly well behaved though. Fred and George being the worst.

I always wondered why they don't teach English, maths and art subjects. Also is there wizard primary school?

I am pretty sure that one of our cover supervisors is the female incarnation of Filch.
Nobody in my school identifies with their house. I have never seen a more uninspired house system, I so wish we could just rebrand into Hogwarts houses. I would also volunteer to act as a sorting hat, I know exactly in which of the houses my students would go.

I’ve wondered about primary school, if they go to a muggle school then surely they would have more of a clue about the muggle world, or social services would end up involved very quickly. Or they are all homeschooled until 11!

No I think wizarding school only starts at 11 and I think there are only 3 schools if i'm not wrong. Hogwarts being one, but also Durmstrang and the one Fleur came from.

It says in one of the books young wizards / witches are either home-schooled or go to Muggle primaries. Given how clueless many magical people seem to be (eg what to wear) I'd guess they're mainly home-schooled.

I'm thinking of Archie and his nightgown for a 'nice, healthy breeze round his privates' in particular

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The parents can choose to home school or send to a muggle primary school. Most choose home school.

Yeah I'm not sure many students give a shit about what house they're in.

Or a school wouldn't end up slated for sorting them into houses based on personality traits.... I mean, where there any slytherins who weren't a bit of a twat?

I'm also not sure what jobs are available for wizards. It seems to be a choice of ministry of magic, mystical shopkeeper or working at hogwarts itself.

I'd be very concerned about the blatant favouritism towards one pupil and his mates.

or drs or singers, radio broadcasters, land lords. Lots of jobs.

Then why don't they teach English or maths or arts subjects? Many 11 yo I teach would not be able to comprehensively read a text book to write 3rolls if parchment about.

I always wonder why people send their kids there at all, its so bloody dangerous. Where is the H and S, where are the risk assessments for trolls in the loos and the wumping willow? Would you send your DC to a school patrolled by dementors?

I have given this more thought than I possibly should of. As an RE and PSCHE teacher I think I am ideally placed to be the next Muggles Studies teacher. And they have a special marking quill and they don’t seems to have heard of DIRT.

As far as I can tell the biggest issue is why the bloody hell they keep their spare robes in a wardrobe in the staff room.

That’s just odd

@userofthiswebsite - There are quite a few schools including an African one, one in the US and I'm pretty sure a Japanese one.

I often wondered how many wizards go to Hogwarts too... like what are the class sizes? Are there many classes per year per house? How are they "settled"? according to ability or something else?

I have so many Hogwarts questions...

I wonder if Hogwarts gets over-subscribed, and has to work on a catchment area basis? I suppose they just magically create more classrooms ... And why wasn't it Ofsted assessed during Harry's years there?

There are many Wizarding schools.

They take classes in their houses, there aren't sets.

Primary aged Wizard children are educated at home usually but they can attend Muggle primary schools. This isn't common among wizards though due to concealing their magic. Muggleborns would go to school as normal. The Weasleys were home educated until Hogwarts.

There's definitely an American one, Ilvermorney maybe? It's where Tina and Queenie from Fantastic Beasts went.

If any of you ever read fanfiction, there’s a piece about Hogwarts undergoing an Ofsted inspection:

www.fanfiction.net/s/733322/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-OFSTED-inspection

Isn't it an independent school? So it would be ISI, not ofsted.

I found the idea of a French girls school and a German boys school and a UK mixed school a bit odd. Are there no French wizards?

They're all mixed.

Durmstrang is in Scandinavia, not Germany.

If they are all mixed why are the teams all male or all female? I have to confess it is a while since I read the books.