Grad School Stress
There are so many requirements for the teaching credential program at SJSU. It's ridiculous. There are three tests that I am supposed to take CBEST, CSET, and some technology test. The CSET is optional if you get your subject competency waived by a faculty advisor which I need to do. I think I can pretty easily prove that I can teach English since you know I have my degree in it.
On top of this I have to have three letters of recommendation which is pretty standard. At least they don't all have to be professors. It seems to me most of the professors at the UCSC ED department are pretty reluctant even to answer emails or they want you to email a TA so the TA can write the letter. I already have two in the bag and I am trying to get the third one together right now.
Nope this isn't it. Letters of recommendation and twenty five bigillion tests stating I'm not retarded isn't enough. I also have to have 45 documented hours of experience working or observing in a secondary public school setting. I have done over a hundred hours of work in a high school classroom, I taught an English class last year and I am teaching it again, and I have done tons of tutoring. However, since the English I taught was at a private school it doesn't count. The teacher that I did the 100 hours with no longer works that school and the professor whose class I did it through answers my email with a CC to a TA who was supposed to tell me how to go about getting my document signed but never emailed me. Oh plus, they just changed the requirements so when I took the class the requirement to get into a teaching credential program was only thirty hours and now its forty five.
I have to have two official transcripts (one just isn't good enough), a personal statement, a TB test, and a finger printing. I need to have all of this done before December 1st. There is also the online application as well as five hundred other forms I have to send in. I also need to schedule a meeting with a faculty advisor.
On top of this I have to have three letters of recommendation which is pretty standard. At least they don't all have to be professors. It seems to me most of the professors at the UCSC ED department are pretty reluctant even to answer emails or they want you to email a TA so the TA can write the letter. I already have two in the bag and I am trying to get the third one together right now.
Nope this isn't it. Letters of recommendation and twenty five bigillion tests stating I'm not retarded isn't enough. I also have to have 45 documented hours of experience working or observing in a secondary public school setting. I have done over a hundred hours of work in a high school classroom, I taught an English class last year and I am teaching it again, and I have done tons of tutoring. However, since the English I taught was at a private school it doesn't count. The teacher that I did the 100 hours with no longer works that school and the professor whose class I did it through answers my email with a CC to a TA who was supposed to tell me how to go about getting my document signed but never emailed me. Oh plus, they just changed the requirements so when I took the class the requirement to get into a teaching credential program was only thirty hours and now its forty five.
I have to have two official transcripts (one just isn't good enough), a personal statement, a TB test, and a finger printing. I need to have all of this done before December 1st. There is also the online application as well as five hundred other forms I have to send in. I also need to schedule a meeting with a faculty advisor.