This is such a depressing thing to see when you have studied for what essentially amounts to three months straight.
Sadly, I only have myself to blame considering I let my background check slip. Now I have to get in touch with people to have my work email unlocked.
It has been a long and winding road already…
No one at grad school said anything about additional certification…
The program was geared towards preparing student to teach adults, not kids.
Then again, when I asked the ‘teaching career’ guru if I should get certified in general education or special education…she said ‘no’.
Do yourself a favor, if you are going to specialize in ESL, special education, or any other area…go for additional certification in general education. There are more special education jobs than there are ESL (in my State, anyway) and there is WAY more general education jobs than there are both ESL and special education combined.
Get it while you are still in college!
It will open up three times as many doors for you!
Start in general education, get that experience, then work towards the subject or kinds of students you actually want to teach.
Get your foot in the door!
Background check needed before certification can go through…
Guess what I forgot to do during winter break?
Yup.
So my K-6 general education certification is pending until the background check I had done last week is cleared.
This, sadly, has cost me a couple of job opportunities…
But hey, as long as parents continue to act worse than their children in my state, I should be in a position in no time! Seriously. ‘I can’t stand to see my kid in my mask’ is just code for ‘I’m tired of hearing my kid whine about masks and I don’t want to wear one myself so here I am protesting my family’s right to get terminally ill.
The fact that America ever made it to become a first-world country much less a world power is still a mystery to me…
I love my country but I hate the spineless, cowardly, selfish, greedy people who run it.