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Ack! Don’t discourage me from my future career! I am already as nervous as anything to student teach in a year. (I would be student teaching this fall, but a mix-up of classes combined with having a baby delayed that.) Tell me, what is your subject area and the grade you teach? My major is secondary education and English.
eaglefeather831 wrote:Ack! Don’t discourage me from my future career! I am already as nervous as anything to student teach in a year. (I would be student teaching this fall, but a mix-up of classes combined with having a baby delayed that.) Tell me, what is your subject area and the grade you teach? My major is secondary education and English.
Mine too! I’ve taught 6th, 7th and 8th grade reading for two years, and this year I’ll be doing 7th grade language arts.
Student teaching is what gave me a true idea on weather or not I really wanted to teach. My one semester of student teaching taught me more than my five years of college.
Stephanie wrote:eaglefeather831 wrote:Ack! Don’t discourage me from my future career! I am already as nervous as anything to student teach in a year. (I would be student teaching this fall, but a mix-up of classes combined with having a baby delayed that.) Tell me, what is your subject area and the grade you teach? My major is secondary education and English.
Mine too! I’ve taught 6th, 7th and 8th grade reading for two years, and this year I’ll be doing 7th grade language arts.
Student teaching is what gave me a true idea on weather or not I really wanted to teach. My one semester of student teaching taught me more than my five years of college.
It seems there’s alot of teachers on here, my fiancee is going for secondary with math major. If of course he can work out the crap they sent him saying he can’t do his practicum. Something about probation. IN the first semester. They told him NOW. 🙄 they don’t care until you try to do something that requires good academic standing do they?
Just remember, UPS will round up to the nearest pound. =) It may or may not make a difference, but I know they do that. Usually, I like them. When there aren’t footprints on my boxes. >_>
Sucks that you got ripped off on shipping. I bought a little scale off ebay that weighs things up to 75lbs. It’s kind of a piece of crap (it needs batteries AND an A/C adaptor for some weird reason), but it was only $12.
Wow, that’s sad. I feel the same sometimes… Not often. Your shipping shouldn’t have been that far off. I hate UPS so I’d rather go to the post office any day. (Maybe I hate UPS because we don’t have a depot around here just the stupid stores….) I always have to add at least $10 onto the quote given to me from them. Even then it doesn’t normally cover all of the costs.
I don’t know what to say about the rest.
Dragon87 wrote:Stephanie wrote:eaglefeather831 wrote:Ack! Don’t discourage me from my future career! I am already as nervous as anything to student teach in a year. (I would be student teaching this fall, but a mix-up of classes combined with having a baby delayed that.) Tell me, what is your subject area and the grade you teach? My major is secondary education and English.
Mine too! I’ve taught 6th, 7th and 8th grade reading for two years, and this year I’ll be doing 7th grade language arts.
Student teaching is what gave me a true idea on weather or not I really wanted to teach. My one semester of student teaching taught me more than my five years of college.
It seems there’s alot of teachers on here, my fiancee is going for secondary with math major. If of course he can work out the crap they sent him saying he can’t do his practicum. Something about probation. IN the first semester. They told him NOW. 🙄 they don’t care until you try to do something that requires good academic standing do they?
Oohh that’s not good. I hope it can get resolved because he will learn a lot from his practicum! My first practicum was at a local high school, and that teacher didn’t really let me do anything, and in fact made the whole experience a negative one, but my last practicum was completely the opposite and I learned a lot!! Tell your fiancee that the more involved he is, the more he’ll learn! Good luck!
And I’m sorry Stephanie, but I don’t have any experience shipping…but I hope you’ll figure it out!
My practicum was great – I learned a lot just observing the kids and the teachers.
In my practicum program we weren’t really supposed to do anything – just observe. Hands-on came during student teaching.
My practicum was great though, because with a Secondary degree we had to observe both High School and Junior High classes. I went into it knowing I wanted to do High School, but I fell in love with the Junior High kids, and have never looked back.
Well, some days I’ve wanted to run screaming…but I’ve never looked behind me while running. 😆
I won’t lie, it’s a tough job, but there are a lot of rewards. I’m still not sure if it’s the career for me…but I think a lot of that doubt comes from being asked to teach a subject I didn’t know how to teach. Next year I’ll be in Language Arts, which is what I studied to do. So I’ll know my stuff!
But yes, the more time he (and you!) can get in the classroom before graduation, the better.
eaglefeather831 wrote:Dragon87 wrote:Stephanie wrote:eaglefeather831 wrote:Ack! Don’t discourage me from my future career! I am already as nervous as anything to student teach in a year. (I would be student teaching this fall, but a mix-up of classes combined with having a baby delayed that.) Tell me, what is your subject area and the grade you teach? My major is secondary education and English.
Mine too! I’ve taught 6th, 7th and 8th grade reading for two years, and this year I’ll be doing 7th grade language arts.
Student teaching is what gave me a true idea on weather or not I really wanted to teach. My one semester of student teaching taught me more than my five years of college.
It seems there’s alot of teachers on here, my fiancee is going for secondary with math major. If of course he can work out the crap they sent him saying he can’t do his practicum. Something about probation. IN the first semester. They told him NOW. 🙄 they don’t care until you try to do something that requires good academic standing do they?
Oohh that’s not good. I hope it can get resolved because he will learn a lot from his practicum! My first practicum was at a local high school, and that teacher didn’t really let me do anything, and in fact made the whole experience a negative one, but my last practicum was completely the opposite and I learned a lot!! Tell your fiancee that the more involved he is, the more he’ll learn! Good luck!
And I’m sorry Stephanie, but I don’t have any experience shipping…but I hope you’ll figure it out!
He can’t graduate without the practicum is the problem. And he needs two semesters of over 2.0 to get back in, he needs to find out if his last semester (he got 2.5) counts. We are on the 4 point system to those who think he’s doing REALLY bad on the 9 point…
It should count, he had a bad semester because of being a transfer student, but now he’s doing alot better. We will find out on Tuesday 🙄 as long as the people at the uni aren’t jerks 👿
Dragon87 wrote:eaglefeather831 wrote:Dragon87 wrote:Stephanie wrote:eaglefeather831 wrote:Ack! Don’t discourage me from my future career! I am already as nervous as anything to student teach in a year. (I would be student teaching this fall, but a mix-up of classes combined with having a baby delayed that.) Tell me, what is your subject area and the grade you teach? My major is secondary education and English.
Mine too! I’ve taught 6th, 7th and 8th grade reading for two years, and this year I’ll be doing 7th grade language arts.
Student teaching is what gave me a true idea on weather or not I really wanted to teach. My one semester of student teaching taught me more than my five years of college.
It seems there’s alot of teachers on here, my fiancee is going for secondary with math major. If of course he can work out the crap they sent him saying he can’t do his practicum. Something about probation. IN the first semester. They told him NOW. 🙄 they don’t care until you try to do something that requires good academic standing do they?
Oohh that’s not good. I hope it can get resolved because he will learn a lot from his practicum! My first practicum was at a local high school, and that teacher didn’t really let me do anything, and in fact made the whole experience a negative one, but my last practicum was completely the opposite and I learned a lot!! Tell your fiancee that the more involved he is, the more he’ll learn! Good luck!
And I’m sorry Stephanie, but I don’t have any experience shipping…but I hope you’ll figure it out!
He can’t graduate without the practicum is the problem. And he needs two semesters of over 2.0 to get back in, he needs to find out if his last semester (he got 2.5) counts. We are on the 4 point system to those who think he’s doing REALLY bad on the 9 point…
It should count, he had a bad semester because of being a transfer student, but now he’s doing alot better. We will find out on Tuesday 🙄 as long as the people at the uni aren’t jerks 👿
Good Luck! 😀
Stephanie wrote:My practicum was great – I learned a lot just observing the kids and the teachers.
In my practicum program we weren’t really supposed to do anything – just observe. Hands-on came during student teaching.
My practicum was great though, because with a Secondary degree we had to observe both High School and Junior High classes. I went into it knowing I wanted to do High School, but I fell in love with the Junior High kids, and have never looked back.
Well, some days I’ve wanted to run screaming…but I’ve never looked behind me while running. 😆
I won’t lie, it’s a tough job, but there are a lot of rewards. I’m still not sure if it’s the career for me…but I think a lot of that doubt comes from being asked to teach a subject I didn’t know how to teach. Next year I’ll be in Language Arts, which is what I studied to do. So I’ll know my stuff!
But yes, the more time he (and you!) can get in the classroom before graduation, the better.
I will make sure to ask you for any help if I need it! I think I will prefer middle school myself, however I am shocked as to how “mature” they are…kids today know and do more than they ever should in middle school! 😯
eaglefeather831 wrote:Stephanie wrote:My practicum was great – I learned a lot just observing the kids and the teachers.
In my practicum program we weren’t really supposed to do anything – just observe. Hands-on came during student teaching.
My practicum was great though, because with a Secondary degree we had to observe both High School and Junior High classes. I went into it knowing I wanted to do High School, but I fell in love with the Junior High kids, and have never looked back.
Well, some days I’ve wanted to run screaming…but I’ve never looked behind me while running. 😆
I won’t lie, it’s a tough job, but there are a lot of rewards. I’m still not sure if it’s the career for me…but I think a lot of that doubt comes from being asked to teach a subject I didn’t know how to teach. Next year I’ll be in Language Arts, which is what I studied to do. So I’ll know my stuff!
But yes, the more time he (and you!) can get in the classroom before graduation, the better.
I will make sure to ask you for any help if I need it! I think I will prefer middle school myself, however I am shocked as to how “mature” they are…kids today know and do more than they ever should in middle school! 😯
Tell me about it! I’ve been shocked several times the past two years. Thankfully I’ve been shocked more by good deeds that the kids have done, than bad ones! 😀
Stephanie wrote:Each box weighed 14 lb, 2.4 oz. From Az to Ga.
Ah! Two separate boxes? Yup, that’ll do it. If the two were the same size on one side, going to the same place, you could have taped them together to make one parcel and saved a few bob. Dollars; whatever.
But it would still have cost a bundle compared to UPS.
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Stephanie wrote:Each box weighed 14 lb, 2.4 oz. From Az to Ga.
Ah! Two separate boxes? Yup, that’ll do it. If the two were the same size on one side, going to the same place, you could have taped them together to make one parcel and saved a few bob. Dollars; whatever.
But it would still have cost a bundle compared to UPS.
I never would have thought to tape them together. Thanks for the tip! 😀
As for the teaching certificate…I was able to get the signature today (whew!) and mailed my form off overnight, with a signature required. So at least if they claim they never got it, I’ll have a signature to prove that they did. Thanks for the great idea!
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