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Re: Adding a credential late in life <LYR4069-9034-2000.03.10-18.18.35--apeshet#pacbell.net>

From: jwells (jwells.us)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 14:11:12 PST

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    What about having a degree in that area too? How can you have credentials
    without a diploma?
    jwells.us

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    From: Alix E. Peshette <apeshet>
    To: ArtsEdNet Talk <artsednet>
    Date: Saturday, March 11, 2000 8:42 AM
    Subject: Adding a credential late in life
    <LYR4069-9034-2000.03.10-18.18.35--apeshet#pacbell.net>

    Hi All,
    This is a sort of side-ways step off the topic, but I wanted to pass
    along this alternative credentialing idea. If you already have one
    credential, you can take the NTE in whatever other subject, pass it
    and get an added authorization to your original credential! That's
    how I beefed up my art credential (after being layed off five times in
    five years) to include a social studies credential and a multiple
    subjects credential. Now I am virtually bullet-proof as far as having
    my full-time job reduced.

    My stressless strategy was to NOT STUDY FOR THE TEST, just
    read the NTE information books one can buy (on how to take the
    test), take the test and re-take any parts I didn't pass. I figured at
    that point, I would then KNOW what I needed to study. Also, I
    would only have to retake the part I didn't pass, not the whole test.
    As it turned out, I passed everything, in some cases just barely.
    But hey, the test has almost nothing to do with teaching! And no
    one will ever ask what percentile you earned on the test!!!

    -Alix Peshette
    Sacramento CA

    > << Does anyone have any words of wisdom for her? Also, we're in
    Sacramento,
    > California...any idea how difficult it would be for her to get
    > credentialed/what does it take? >>
    > With a BA already it would take a single subject credential course from
    the
    > local U. I If she wants elementary in Ca. she would need a multiple
    subjects
    > course and then a teaching credential, plus her art degree of course.
    > She could get 20 years of teaching in...enough for a pension! There is a
    > teacher shortage in Ca.
    >
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