Whew! Glad I didn’t go overboard with stressing about these tests – they were far easier than I expected.
I took two practice tests in the Kaplan and CliffsPrep review books for the Multi-Subject CST and the LAST. The practice tests were easier than the actual test. The CliffsPrep book was tremendously helpful with its review [...]

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It may be early in the game, but I’m already feeling some mad love for my fellow Cohort 18 Fellows! Can I get a witness??
I’ve met quite a few of you so far and you are all so amazingly talented, positive and focused. It’s very impressive. We’re in for an exciting year full of joys [...]

The DOE “plans” to hire Teaching Fellows? They plan to? Meaning, there’s an implication that they want to, will be able to, and will hire Teaching Fellows?
Call me skeptical, even cynical, but this sentence in today’s New York Times? I don’t know how they parsed out this meaning from the announcement last Wednesday. To me [...]

After last Friday’s disappointment, I decided to chill out a little. It took me a few days but I finally considered the advice of a teacher blogger who told me that if I’m not working now, I should be relaxing because come June 15, I’m in for it (NYCTF training starts that day).
So I tried [...]

Wow. I just got a call from a school that had found my resume through NYCTF and that contacted me for an interview last week. They are canceling my interview for Monday.
I had researched this school and from what I’ve read, they had a 66.66% teacher turnover rate last year (and more than 50% in [...]

Folks, this is a test. My resolve is unwavering. Is yours?

I took a teacher quiz on the Harry Wong Publications website. It told me that I am a “Master Teacher.” Ha!
Take the test and share your results in the comments section (even though the answers are right here in this post.)