Yesterday a big envelope arrived from ETS, the firm that conducts testing on educators. It was last week that I got the results of my Praxis II tests back and I did well on both of them. Well, inside the envelope that came yesterday was this certificate …
It’s an ETS Recognition of Excellence for scoring exceptionally well on the Social Studies Content exam. According to ETS I scored within the top 15% of those who take this test.
Pretty cool 🙂...
Just got the score report today. I scored above average on both content knowledge and pedagogy. And my score on content knowledge was high enough that it qualified for “ETS Recognition of Excellence”.
So ummmm… anybody wanna hire a history/social studies teacher who is guaranteed to make the classroom learning experience an interesting one?
What a great way to cap off an already good week. Funny how just about all of it involved education one way or another…
Anyhoo, I’m happy 🙂...
Most of this weekend was spent in Raleigh. I left Reidsville at about 4 p.m. on Friday afternoon and reached my friend Chad‘s place a little after 6. For the past five weeks I’ve been studying my brains out for the Praxis exam: that’s the big series of tests given to prospective teachers. It was actually two exams that I took on Saturday: one that morning for content knowledge, and the second later that afternoon on teaching methods. And, I think that I did pretty well on them! The first was over a hundred multiple-choice questions that you had to use a number-2 pencil to fill in those little bubbles for your answers, but the second was stuff you had to think about and write out. Basically that exam provided two knowledge areas that you had to make lesson plans out of. Even though that was the harder of ...