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3. Thank Dog we didn't have standardized certification requirements when I got my certificate. 1970.
Thu Jul 1, 2021, 08:06 AM
Jul 2021

Alls we had to do was keep our bodies awake in boring education courses for 12 credits and student teach for one semester.

Useful information would have been about preparing lessons, maintaining discipline and how to survive HOURS of record keeping each week that had little or nothing to do with teaching a class.

Oh, and learning how to keep awake during weekly faculty meetings. Faculty meetings--- meetings for the same of meetings. First school I taught in, three meetings per month. No limit on time. I recall one that went from 3:15 to 6:50.

Second school, union negotiated two meetings per month, limited to 1 hour, each.... and holy shit. The school didn't fall apart with only four hours per month of meetings.


Anyway, good luck with your career.

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