January 2010 Weddings
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woo hoo!
In CT, they have this program for new teachers called TEAM (I can't remember what it stands for..), and you have to complete 5 modules in your first two years of teaching in order to keep your certification, and apply for the next level of certification.
It's the first year that CT is doing TEAM, so second year teachers (me) only have to do two out of the five modules.
A module is a "project" where the teacher creates a personal teaching goal under a certain topic, and writes a reflection paper based on their research, implementation, and results.
I just got an email that I passed my first module!! I'm so excited, and now I only have one more left before I can apply for my second level of certification!
Re: woo hoo!
BFP 02/2010 m/c 03/17/2010 dx PCOS 04/2010
BFP 08/13/2011 CP 08/15/2011
BFP 09/16/2011 EDD 05/20/2012
Claire Elizabeth, born 5/30 via a med free birth
I'm quickly learning (through my H) that teachers have to go through CRAZY amounts of standardized testing to get certified - and they're super hard! GO YOU for passing! Here's a weird-looking beer:
An a semi-related note, aren't teachers taught to NOT teach their students only for standardized tests? Yet they have to take 75,000,000,000 to get and stay certified?
January 2, 2010
EDD October 10, 2013
thanks girls!
...there is a whole lot that teachers have to go through to get/stay certifited, and rumor has it is that CT is the most difficult state to become certified in.
we are taught to not teach to the test, even though I teach two classes specifically geared toward tests...one SAT prep, and one for our state exam.
Ah, that makes me laugh. I WISH teachers were truly not supposed to teach to the tests. But realistically, our jobs (and more imminently the job of our beloved principal) rely on our students doing well on standardized tests, so the poor third graders pretty much spend all of January and February each year doing nothing but ISAT prep.
BFP on Jan. 18; EDD Oct. 1
Yeah, I get it on that level - I just wish there was a better way to measure, you know? How many great students (AND teachers!) are simply bad at standardized tests?? My H is one of those people - he knows the information, but panics and second-guesses everything when he has to take a test. I fear it will stop him from passing all the necessary certification tests - and I (and his professors and the teachers at the schools he observes/student teaches at) KNOW he'd be an awesome teacher.
I'm the opposite - I could pass any test in my sleep, regardless of whether I really know the information or not. It's a blessing and a curse!
January 2, 2010
EDD October 10, 2013