{"id":499,"date":"2003-01-20T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2003-01-20T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/01\/20\/1-20-03\/"},"modified":"2013-03-05T11:19:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T19:19:44","slug":"progressing-at-a-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/20\/progressing-at-a-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressing at a Pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My situation progresses at a pace&#8230; I&#8217;m starting school Tuesday so that by the fall I can enter a master&#8217;s program so that next fall I can apply to become a certified NJ teacher. With a significant amount of luck, I&#8217;ll be a certified teacher, in the classroom bending &#8230; errr shaping little minds in September 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Potential schools right now include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>East Stroudsburg University over the border in PA. Their Master&#8217;s of Education in Science sounds interesting&#8230; if their graduate studies people would just return my calls! Maybe they&#8217;re still out for winter break.<\/li>\n<li>Centenary in Hackettstown. If I can find a program that works for me. I had 1 meeting with them. I&#8217;ll have 1 more but it&#8217;s not looking good.<\/li>\n<li>Rutgers in New Brunswick. Maybe but it&#8217;s a long commute to New Brunswick!<\/li>\n<li>FDU in Madison: Maybe, though I might not make their entrance GPA requirements, and it&#8217;s pricey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, by mid-February, as soon as the paperwork settles in the appropriate Nooks and Crannies &#8482;*, I&#8217;ll start substitute teaching. Ironically, the training for being a sub consists of 2 sheets of paper and a map to the schools in the district. The notes on the sheets include things like: &#8220;#12. You must accompany your class outside in case of a fire drill.&#8221; and &#8220;#20. Try to get as many students possible to participate and become involved in the lesson activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ha.<\/p>\n<p>And I did the math out&#8230; get into Grad school, I need 5 A&#8217;s before September&#8230; B&#8217;s don&#8217;t count and C&#8217;s are right-out. That&#8217;s 2 classes this semester, 2 first summer term, 1 second summer term. I&#8217;m going to have a busy summer! (and spring, and fall. Hurumph, my Tivo is gonna get lonely, though that&#8217;s not a too terribly bad thing)<\/p>\n<p>In it for the long haul,<br \/>\nOr at least: in for &#8216;it&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>lee<\/p>\n<p>*Yes, Thomas&#8217; English Muffins owns &#8220;Nooks and Crannies&#8221;. Check the package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My situation progresses at a pace&#8230; I&#8217;m starting school Tuesday so that by the fall I can enter a master&#8217;s program so that next fall I can apply to become a certified NJ teacher. With a significant amount of luck, I&#8217;ll be a certified teacher, in the classroom bending &#8230; errr shaping little minds in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}