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So I took a CLEP exam tonight, in Educational Psychology which I needed to do to prove that I know a little bit of the psychology behind education. I prepared for this exam by reading an intro textbook sporadically for the last month, taking the online practice test and trying to remember stuff from my Developmental psych class that I took eleventy billion years ago. I passed this exam with extra-bright flying colours and, when reading over the scoring info, realized that I had only needed a 50% on the exam to get 3 credits for it. That seems...not especially good to me.
I mean, of course it's good that I don't have to take the actual class, but I don't feel I'm particularly well-educated in educational psych. And I'm wondering if maybe it would have been better for me as a teacher to actually take the damn class instead of weasling out of it and feeling all smug because I beat an exam that only requires me to know 50% of the stuff I was being tested on. I realize there are many hoops to be jumped through in the ed field and that some are going to be harder than others. The MTTC that all teachers have to pass was a breeze and the intro to teaching class I had was laughably superficial and lame. Now I'm starting to worry that I'm not adequately ready to teach real students.
In other news, the summer is mine at last now that classes are done and I've passed my CLEP. Yay! Let the PotterFest begin!
I mean, of course it's good that I don't have to take the actual class, but I don't feel I'm particularly well-educated in educational psych. And I'm wondering if maybe it would have been better for me as a teacher to actually take the damn class instead of weasling out of it and feeling all smug because I beat an exam that only requires me to know 50% of the stuff I was being tested on. I realize there are many hoops to be jumped through in the ed field and that some are going to be harder than others. The MTTC that all teachers have to pass was a breeze and the intro to teaching class I had was laughably superficial and lame. Now I'm starting to worry that I'm not adequately ready to teach real students.
In other news, the summer is mine at last now that classes are done and I've passed my CLEP. Yay! Let the PotterFest begin!