{"id":571,"date":"2003-06-19T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/06\/19\/6-19-03\/"},"modified":"2013-03-05T11:19:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T19:19:22","slug":"new-pathways-for-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/19\/new-pathways-for-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"New Pathways for Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nptnj.org\">New Pathways for Teaching<\/a> information session. I was told in no uncertain terms from the head of the program that in order for me to get a teachers certificate in New Jersey with my low college GPA, I will first need to get a master&#8217;s degree.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m lost.<\/p>\n<p>I refuse to spend $30,000 and 1 1\/2 years taking classes to prove to do something that I am already completely qualified to do. It&#8217;s the most ludicrous application fee in history: $30k and a 18 months in jail. I think of it as jail because It&#8217;s time spent doing something I have absolutely no interest in doing right now.<\/p>\n<p>I would be happy to test-out of any of these requirements. But as it stands, the best I could possibly do is to ace the GRE, Miller Analogy and Praxis II. This -might- get me into a grad school. The trouble I have with this is that if I -do- ace those tests, then it&#8217;s definitive proof that I -don&#8217;t- need to spend my time and money going to school. Catch 22.<\/p>\n<p>I am very unhappy and lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to the New Pathways for Teaching information session. I was told in no uncertain terms from the head of the program that in order for me to get a teachers certificate in New Jersey with my low college GPA, I will first need to get a master&#8217;s degree. I&#8217;m lost. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","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=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}