Boring Stuff...
Oct. 15th, 2003 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
songofjoy02I am going to cut this because I'm really just doing it for my own reference, but it's what I need to do academically (programwise) in the next five years (approximately).
*Be forewarned to right-click or pass over with your mouse to see what kind of file it is, since some of them will be pdf.
At the community college, I must first obtain an Associate of Arts Degree in "Teaching Middle School Language Arts/Social Studies." Just for the record, since I need to write it down somewhere anyway, I have decided which classes I'm going to take...hopefully on the following schedule:
Actually, I can't find it right now, so I'll just list the courses that I'm taking and planning to take:
English Composition I, Honors
English Composition II, Honors
World Literature I
Music Appreciation
Fundamentals of Communication
College Algebra
Principles of Biology I
Basic Chemistry
History of the American People to 1877
Western Civilization I
Human Geography
Wellness Concepts and
Fitness Concepts
Imaginative Writing
History of Arkansas
American Government
Western Civilization II
Practicum. Intro. To Education
Introduction to Education
Education Technology (K-12 Computing Skills)
American Literature I
World Literature II
This should satisfy the 62-hour requirement for the A.A.T. degree.
Then I will work on obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Middle School Education at the University of Arkansas (and I'm not posting their requirements as a link, since I could only find it in their very long catalog). Copying from the catalog, however, this "is a teacher preparation degree that prepares educators for meeting the of early adolescents. Grounded in an understanding of and appreciation for the physical, intellectual, emotional, and social development of early adolescents (ages 9 to 14, and/or grades four to eight), the B.S.E. degree provides the pre-requisite knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for entry into the fifth-year, Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) program for initial licensure in middle-level education. Candidates for the B.S.E. in middle-level education will be eligible to apply for entry to the M.A.T. program through which they will develop further expertise on educating early adolescents and graduate with the requisite skills and degree for teaching grades four to eight.
The requirements are as follows (and I hope to have completed as many transferrable ones as possible, perhaps even more than the ones required for my A.A.T.):
Core Studies: 50-53 (hours)
Pre-Education Courses, 12 in the Pre-education College Core and 10 Designated by the prgram. These classes are technology, theory, and then stuff more specifically devoted to preparing to teach junior high.
Dual Ares of Concentration: 52-55
Mine is, of course, English/Social Studies
For this, I need 33 hours in English, and 21 hours in Social Studies.
Since the University of Arkansas seems to offer a degree in English for those who take 36 hours of it (which happens to look like the same classes I have to take already), I'm thinking that I might also pursue that...Undergraduate Degree in English.
And then the <http://www.uark.edu/depts/gradinfo/prospective/catalog/degrees/masters-art-teaching.html>Master's Degree...fun, fun. It's not a real Master's, though, because it's only about half the hours. However, it is required for teachers in this state, so I do have to do it. I must have a 2.7 GPA (or higher, obviously) to enter the program, and I must complete it with at least a 3.0. Obviously, it would be easiest to just go ahead and make sure I have a 4.0 average. To diverge from my subject, I still remember when I received my year-end report from Telos (I did three Telos courses one year--by correspondence)...and I was quite pleasantly surprised to find that I had a 4.0 average. For some odd reason (ignorance, I suppose), I assumed that my chance of getting a 4.0 was nil because I hadn't gotten 100% on everything. LOL! Since then, I've found out that I can practically fail a class (from my viewpoint) and still get an A. I still don't understand how people can get F's. I know this might come across as conceited, but you do have to understand that it DOES take a great deal of effort for me to pass my classes, and that I am not exceptionally brilliant. I have high expectations of others, too, in the amount of work that I think that they should do. I think EVERYONE should study!
Okay, so I'm done for now...and thinking of making this entry private/friends-only at some point because it does reveal some extent of my location. Eventually, I need to get all of this stuff worked out on paper so that I can have a more effective plan for getting all the degrees that I need.;-)
*Be forewarned to right-click or pass over with your mouse to see what kind of file it is, since some of them will be pdf.
At the community college, I must first obtain an Associate of Arts Degree in "Teaching Middle School Language Arts/Social Studies." Just for the record, since I need to write it down somewhere anyway, I have decided which classes I'm going to take...hopefully on the following schedule:
Actually, I can't find it right now, so I'll just list the courses that I'm taking and planning to take:
English Composition I, Honors
English Composition II, Honors
World Literature I
Music Appreciation
Fundamentals of Communication
College Algebra
Principles of Biology I
Basic Chemistry
History of the American People to 1877
Western Civilization I
Human Geography
Wellness Concepts and
Fitness Concepts
Imaginative Writing
History of Arkansas
American Government
Western Civilization II
Practicum. Intro. To Education
Introduction to Education
Education Technology (K-12 Computing Skills)
American Literature I
World Literature II
This should satisfy the 62-hour requirement for the A.A.T. degree.
Then I will work on obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Middle School Education at the University of Arkansas (and I'm not posting their requirements as a link, since I could only find it in their very long catalog). Copying from the catalog, however, this "is a teacher preparation degree that prepares educators for meeting the of early adolescents. Grounded in an understanding of and appreciation for the physical, intellectual, emotional, and social development of early adolescents (ages 9 to 14, and/or grades four to eight), the B.S.E. degree provides the pre-requisite knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for entry into the fifth-year, Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) program for initial licensure in middle-level education. Candidates for the B.S.E. in middle-level education will be eligible to apply for entry to the M.A.T. program through which they will develop further expertise on educating early adolescents and graduate with the requisite skills and degree for teaching grades four to eight.
The requirements are as follows (and I hope to have completed as many transferrable ones as possible, perhaps even more than the ones required for my A.A.T.):
Core Studies: 50-53 (hours)
Pre-Education Courses, 12 in the Pre-education College Core and 10 Designated by the prgram. These classes are technology, theory, and then stuff more specifically devoted to preparing to teach junior high.
Dual Ares of Concentration: 52-55
Mine is, of course, English/Social Studies
For this, I need 33 hours in English, and 21 hours in Social Studies.
Since the University of Arkansas seems to offer a degree in English for those who take 36 hours of it (which happens to look like the same classes I have to take already), I'm thinking that I might also pursue that...Undergraduate Degree in English.
And then the <http://www.uark.edu/depts/gradinfo/prospective/catalog/degrees/masters-art-teaching.html>Master's Degree...fun, fun. It's not a real Master's, though, because it's only about half the hours. However, it is required for teachers in this state, so I do have to do it. I must have a 2.7 GPA (or higher, obviously) to enter the program, and I must complete it with at least a 3.0. Obviously, it would be easiest to just go ahead and make sure I have a 4.0 average. To diverge from my subject, I still remember when I received my year-end report from Telos (I did three Telos courses one year--by correspondence)...and I was quite pleasantly surprised to find that I had a 4.0 average. For some odd reason (ignorance, I suppose), I assumed that my chance of getting a 4.0 was nil because I hadn't gotten 100% on everything. LOL! Since then, I've found out that I can practically fail a class (from my viewpoint) and still get an A. I still don't understand how people can get F's. I know this might come across as conceited, but you do have to understand that it DOES take a great deal of effort for me to pass my classes, and that I am not exceptionally brilliant. I have high expectations of others, too, in the amount of work that I think that they should do. I think EVERYONE should study!
Okay, so I'm done for now...and thinking of making this entry private/friends-only at some point because it does reveal some extent of my location. Eventually, I need to get all of this stuff worked out on paper so that I can have a more effective plan for getting all the degrees that I need.;-)
