So with 3 days and 7 hours until I take the Middle School Science Praxis II, I am starting to feel a little bit confident. This new wave of faith in myself is the result of a fairly successful practice test. I had been saving the practice test in the ETS study guide until today,…
read more »I have no idea where the time has gone. I almost feel like I haven’t learned anything new since I posted 12 days ago! I looked up what score I need to pass NJ’s DoE requirements- a 145. Of course the actual grading is somewhat elusive, but it’s roughly a 73%. If the test were…
read more »Yesterday was a pretty interesting day. (In a good way..I know when teachers use “interesting” to describe work-related stuff, it could mean a variety of things. lol). This week was Mid-term week. My students took our chemistry mid-term on Tues and Wed. Since there was a mutual agreement among the teachers to keep work light…
read more »22 days left in the Middle School Science Praxis II countdown. I have to be honest and say that studying is going less than ideally. Some of the problem stems from self-discipline. I guess I am a little out of practice with studying, even though it’s only been a few months since I graduated. Some…
read more »Welp, this is a bit late to help much of anyone this time around, but I figure that a) since it’s a new test, and b) since it’s a requirement for at least the future NJ Spanish teachers/TFA CMs teaching Spanish in lots of places out there, I would give my impressions of the test. …
read more »I thought it would be nice to chronicle my TFA experience thus far. I applied in October during the 3DL. I waited until the last day to submit my application, to ensure that everything was in order. I must have had 5 drafts of my personal statement before I trashed them all and just wrote.…
read more »Hello, indeed, world! I am so excited that I figured out how to start up a blog on here! I spent a lot of time reading other blogs during the application process trying to figure out what TFA was really like. I hope that maybe someone else may see this blog sometime and I will…
read more »Before I start, I’d like to note that if I have to change my password every time I try and log in here (because I’m an ijit that doesn’t remember her password, but only for this one site), I’m going to be very grumpy at myself. That being said, it’s time to update the larger…
read more »Hello world! It’s currently testing season in my world of teaching high school chemistry. A unit exam {FINALLY} coming up. i say finally because we’ve had so many snow days….well only 3 in the past 2 weeks but that’s defnitely enough to throw everything off schedule. Also have the 2nd marking period benchmark coming up…
read more »It hasn’t been all that long since I’ve updated, but I am enthusiastically avoiding reading and organizing my thesis (though I AM excited that it recently was accepted into the Nation Conference of Undergraduate Research!), and I thought it would be nice to update the larger world out there on the post-acceptance process. There’s SO…
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