I administered the IOWA test to my homeschool group this past week. It's funny how grueling it is to have to get up and out three mornings in a row! Gerren and Chase also took the test this year. I test them every other year beginning in 3rd grade and stopping once they get to high school, since they will then begin taking college placement tests, etc.
Landon took the CPT (College Placement Test) and CLM (College Level Math) at our local community college this week. He blew them away. I also mailed in his Dual Enrollment Application package. He hopes to take a computer course this summer then Calculus and Physics in the fall.
I need to renew my teaching certificate by June 30, 2010. I usually do this early in the recertification period. But this time, life slowed me down. I am certified in two areas: middle school math and elementary education. That means I have to recertify both areas. This involves 120 points, 60 points in each field. One college credit is worth 20 points. So, I need 3 credits in math and 3 credits in elementary education. A lot of different things count as "in field" for elementary ed, and a computer course is basically "in field" for anything. I also found out that a CLEP test will count if you have a college award credit on a transcript from the test. So, I'm debating whether to take the College Mathematics CLEP test (worth 6 credits) and send the scores to CFCC then request a transcript or taking Intermediate Algebra and Microcomputer Applications at CFCC this summer. Each is a six-week summer course. It seems like a miserable summer to me. But I haven't been an actual student at CFCC for a long time, so I'm not sure if they'd award credit on a transcript to me for the CLEP test or what. ??? I can't decide what to do, and I have no energy to try to call someone at CFCC and figure it out. Blech!
The boys are at Airfest in Tampa this weekend with their CAP squadron. So, it's much quieter here. I'm enjoying it! :)
4 comments:
Way to go, Landon. Good luck with all the cert decisions.
Congrats on all of the tests! I somehow missed getting your blog into my RSS feed when I switched to a new computer. Glad to have it back in my feed listing again. Looks like I have some catching up to do (LOL)! Oh.. and by the way. I haven't had a chance to post this on the blog yet, but you won that book so can you send me your address again and I'll mail it tomorrow.
Oh dear, re-certification does n ot sound like fun.
Here in the UK, it's 'once a qualified teacher, always a qualified teacher'. However, most women returning to teaching after a long hiatus tend to take a 'returners' course just to get back into the swing of things.
Oh, Dorothy, that sounds heavenly. The only reason I keep recertifying is so that I can do my own kids' homeschool evaluations each year. I also make a little money doing these for others. In Florida, we're required to have an evaluation by a Florida certified teacher every year.
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