WALKING IN LITTLE, TINY CIRCLES: MY PATH TO A TEACHING LICENSE (Part Two)

Introduction, Part One

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Ok. While my conversation with the Department of Education provided little illumination (although the woman in charge was friendly enough), I’ve figured something out: the online slideshow / lecture is sort of irrelevant.

The key is the list of assignments, which seem to be only tenuously connected to the course material. What I’ve got to do, therefore, is to read the essay prompts, and go straight for the stuff that actually gets assessed. As long as I pass those, I’m golden.

So in order for the State of Ohio to deem you a good teacher, apparently, you have to contort yourself into a terrible student.

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It occurs to me that the Intensive Pedagogical Training Institute’s account of itself might prove useful to my readers who’ve spared themselves the headache of undertaking the licensure project. Here’s their website.