Noticed you took the FTCE Math 9-12 exam. Was wondering if you could break it down for me. I am gonna take it when I visit the US next Fall or Winter.

What study materials do you recommend?

What are some key things to focus on when preparing?

How would you describe the test?

Any advice or tips would be much appreciated.

PsyGuy wrote:
> @MedellinHeel
>
> Its not the district its the politicians.

Well, to me they are almost one in the same. Or at least go hand in hand lol. ie The district is influenced by the politicians, the principals are influenced by the district, and the teachers are influenced by the principals. etc

One big cluster f*ck of worrying about PC, appearance, and feelings when they all should be worried about the classroom and actual students that want to learn.

@vandsmith

At most only some schools / countries. Def not all.

As always,

it's optimal to have a related degree just like it's optimal to have experience.

Neither is a set in stone criteria / requirement.

Just use all job search resources and be flexible / open about location and school and that gives you the best chance you got.

Which id wager gives you a solid shot of landing a job.

Psy,

You are looking at it through a teachers or parents point of view. Which is the correct view btw. Much better to not waste resources on idiotic kids. However, the school board wants a fairy tale utopia ie solve your discipline problems (get better classroom management) and improve your test scores every year.

@Psy

Regarding ISS, I agree, but the thing is schools do not want to expel or suspend students because it looks very bad on review. The district wants the kids in school with a chance to learn than at home doing nothing or getting into trouble. In which case ISS serves an important compromise. You can get those kids out of the main classroom, while also keeping them in school.

Yea, you are looking at the parents from a wrong angle with regards to the US. Most these kids come from broken single mother homes. Very little parental guidance or supervision.

vandsmith wrote:
> MedellinHeel wrote:
> > Not sure id say COL in Korea is high. Apartments, food, medical visits, and
> > transportation is or can be very cheap. If someone wanted to they could
> > live off 300-500 won a month assuming housing was provided. The only things
> > id classify as expensive in Korea are Western style restaurants, imported
> > food, and having a new smart phone (which is the same as USA cost) which
> > are all optional.
>
> you probably mean 300,000-500,000 a month. that's true, but not really sure you'd
> want to. that's a lot of disgusting congealed rice stuff in spicy sauce! but it can
> be done - living like a hermit in the hermit kingdom!
>
> v.

yea, thousands.

lol 300k would be tough which would be a lot of kimbab and ramen, but 500k not so much. enough for a 6k soup for lunch and a cooked meat and veg for dinner.

@marieh

Did you take the middle school math exam or the high school math exam? If you took the high school math exam, could you break down the test for me? I am studying now to take the test. Any info, insight, recommendations, opinions etc would be much appreciated.

Not sure id say COL in Korea is high. Apartments, food, medical visits, and transportation is or can be very cheap. If someone wanted to they could live off 300-500 won a month assuming housing was provided. The only things id classify as expensive in Korea are Western style restaurants, imported food, and having a new smart phone (which is the same as USA cost) which are all optional.

What a joke. I have heard of that in ESL Language Schools but not in professional teaching.

You might want to start putting together a contingency plan.

It was great. I can not envision a more convenient, affordable, and flexible program. It is a 9th month program that has taken me nearly 3 years to finish due to procrastination, issues finding a school near me, moving to different countries, teachers leaving, etc. etc. They worked with me the whole time. Can't speak enough good things about TR and the people running it.

TR gives you a state of florida's professional teaching license. Same one college education majors get. I just finished my last day student teaching with TR yesterday actually.

@Senator

What ever makes you sleep better at night.

I will comment on anything my heart desires, but thanks for your advice.

Real teachers or do you mean zoo keepers?

;)

@PsyG

Ultimately yes, one needs expulsion. Should be like after a set number of ISS's or for very severe one time offenses. However, even if you do not expel the student, atleast get him out of the teacher's classroom and into ISS aka a holding den lol. No one cares if they are loud and off task in ISS. Teachers just tell them the assignment and if they do it great, if not, oh well. Then, at least the teacher can actual focus on teaching and the kids that want to learn can learn in a conducive environment.

I think you are giving a little too much credit to the parents to think expulsion will force them to be responsible etc. I imagine they would just leave the kid at home alone or to his own devices and not really bother with it or care. In these house holds education, discipline, etc do not appear to be priorities. But yes, I imagine some would force some parents to take some action.

When did schools start catering to bad students, politics, and other BS? In no way should it be an issue or looked down on teachers or admin for disciplining (to what ever extent is needed) bad kids.

PsyGuy wrote:
> What I strongly disagree with in @senators claim is that ITs can not
> address extreme and changeling classroom or behavior management conditions
> because they are ITs, and that they are successful in IE because they
> "cant hack" a "real" classroom domestically. Just
> because your a DT as an at risk DS does not mean you are any more a
> "soldier" at the fore front of learning grinding out those small
> wins everyday. Those DTs arent better because they are martyrs, nor does it
> impose a restriction on those who arent to have and express whatever
> opinion on the matter they deem prudent and/or necessary.
>

That was an absurd statement from Senator. Classroom management (or lets just say dealing/coping with extremely disrespectful unmotivated kids) is only a part of being a teacher.

> Where I disagree with @MedellinHeel is the behavior enforcement chain, that
> stops just short of the nuclear option, and thats expulsion. Its just not a
> term or action that modern municipal education is comfortable with anymore,
> do greatly to a large part in political policies and regulation that
> mandates some kind of education for everyone. When you look at regions and
> cultures that approach education as a privilege and not an entitlement it
> is that point that education and the role of educators becomes both more
> meaningful and influential. A lot of challenges with high risk students
> would disappear (within the context of education) if local authorities
> could rid themselves of problematic students who didnt conform to behavior
> expectations.

I am not sure we disagree here. Sounds like you actually agree with me.

Hell, I think schools are not comfortable with hardly any of the major discipline actions. Due to politics, regulations, and image. If a school and teacher have tried everything they know to do and the kid is still causing a big problem then it should be perfectly ok to have that kid in ISS for however many days and also suspend or expel him if things reach a breaking point. You are right about school and privilege.

I am surprised some parents have not got together to sue these schools for allowing the classrooms to turn into zoos. Seems to me there is some nice money to be made with that.