teaching
23 months ago
The opportunities to use teaching skills go far beyond the class room. I’ve built a training business around the skill set.
How to get my teaching certification
It made me
feel invincible! 
"Life changing"
How I did it: Took the proper certification exams (I had to take four of them), worked my ass off in school and during student teaching. And dropped $100 for the certification lol.
Lessons & tips: Keep going even when you are frustrated. In my opinion there are a lot of people and things in this world that your time can be wasted on, but changing a child life is never ever in vain.
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another step
2 years ago
I took the praxis today. I had to be there at 7:30, take a 2-hour test, then be back at 2:15 to take the essay portion. I have signed up for the praxis twice, expecting that I mihgt not do well the first time, but today wasn’t so bad. I was the 2nd one finished in the whole room and that is WITH 2 bathroom breaks. There were 120 multiple choice questions. The ones I had the most trouble with were the ones about sentence structure and being able to name particular types of sentences. But I figure that I did “OK.” Out of 120 questions, there were 20 that I wasn’t sure of, but I could at least narrow it down to 2 choices on all of those. So I figure, statistically, I probably missed 10 out of 120. That’s not too bad. The essay part was the part that I was REALLY worried about. I wrote as fast as I could for the entire hour. My hand hurt soooo badly, but I THINK I at least addressed everything that they asked. My first question was much more fleshed out, but I still got to finish the other one too. Just barely. It will be great if I don’t have to take the test again. Mom made the 99th percentile when she took it though, and I know there is no way that I can beat that. But still I am imagining it. What if I did? What if I could tell Brad that I had made a perfect score? He probably wouldn’t care, but it would certainly feel good to say it.
entails
2 years ago
I must study for and pass the praxis. I must sign up for a World Literature class that I can finish before June at a local college or university.
Praxis
World Lit.
Three tracks:
2 years ago
I have two years worth of debt to pay off in my overpaid but less godly life as a software engineer (I love my company, but I miss teaching math).
During those two years, I aim to do one of the following:
- Find a job at a Title 1 school, and start a portfolio.
- Get a math-oriented certification at the local state university.
- Get a general certification at the local catholic university (much more flexible, MUCH more expensive).
