July
2- Homeroom 3 -Agenda
1.Form groups and Decide on Topic for Modules
You have now had the experience of designing a simple page about yourself.
Today is the day to decide on the topic for your module. Please read
the information in the link below and let's form some groups. :-)
Remember that you can be in groups of 1-4 participants.
2. Understanding Endorsement and What to do Next
If a teacher wants to switch fields of concentration (the teacher is
already endorsed to teach English, for example), and now wants to teach
math, they must have graduate credit in mathematics in order to do
so.
Because our seminars are non-credit seminars, and pass/fail rather
than
graded, three things must happen.
1.) The student must ask us to notify the Registrar that the course
is
going to be taken for credit. The Registrar will then bill the
student for
$100 for changing the course from non-credit to credit.
2.) The student must do extra work in the course, and the instructor
must
grade the work and grade the student.
3.) The student must apply to the State of Illinois Board of Education
for
endorsement credit.
This is why we need to know about people who want endorsement credit
during
the first week of the seminar. The Registrar needs to know, and
the
instructor needs to know so that extra work may be assigned.
Endorsement credit is NOT lane credit. Lane credit is earned by
taking
courses approved by the Chicago Public Schools as lane-credit courses.
All
of our courses, for example, have been deemed lane-credit courses.
Earning
lane credit is how CPS teachers move from one salary "lane" to a higher
salary "lane". The paperwork for teachers to earn lane credit
for the
seminars will be distributed later in the seminar. It costs $20
per
course, payable to the Chicago Teachers Academy for Professional Growth.
Suburban or private teachers might also have ways in which they can
advance
in salary by taking continuing education courses. Those teachers
should
investigate what they need in terms of paperwork from their own school
districts or administrative overseers. Then they should tell
me. I will
provide supporting documentation at the end of the course. They
will,
however, have to provide me with the paperwork.
I hope this clarifies things a little.
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