For the other course, I needed to pay $30 to read some materials and answer multiple choice questions. It wasn't hard, but it did require some close reading. Not of the information in the text, per se, but of the answer options themselves. Here's a sample:
RTI stands for:
a. Route to Intervention
b. React to Interruption
c. Response to Intervention
d. Response to Interaction
The answer: This is the dumbest test I've ever taken.
It had no relationship with my actual knowledge of intervention strategies in the classroom or my ability to draw upon them in effective and meaningful ways.
But I passed. So I guess I'm qualified to teach children in this fine state?
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I have a very important question: Should I take the trouble to renew my teaching license before it lapses? I'm not sure I can find all the required PD certificates, etc. OR, is it not that big of a deal to reinstate if it expires? I'm asking, was yours expired? Was that fine? What should I do?
Important supporting information: I do not need a MN teaching license to teach in my current school.
Tough question, KC. If you don't need it and you don't have the PD hours clocked already, it's probably not worth it. I still have graduate credits (from the dissertation) that apply, so it was pretty easy for me to gather the needed documentation to renew. I just had to take three online PD clock hours.
Also, my license has not expired yet. I have until June. I'm not sure how hard it is to renew once is expires, but you can find out on the MDE website, I'm sure.
I'm inclined to say don't bother if you're sticking with your current gig -- which sounds pretty great, btw.
Okay, thanks for the advice. Mine doesn't expire until February. I'm sure I've done the hours, there's just no way I can find all the documentation without a great deal of pain and suffering.
The gal at my school in charge of the committee said that in order to renew if it lapses, I just take two classes. That seems fine. Like, if I feel like I'm going to apply to another job that needs a license (which I don't feel like I'm going to do), I'd just start taking classes.
Right???
Anyway, thanks for the advice.
These tests are moronic.
What's the point really?
KC, I vote for get the license renewed.
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