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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is a bunch of hooey but that is pretty much what education has become. Jump through a bunch hoops and add more titles to your name. [/quote]

I don't know anymore. I was annoyed by it at the start (I'm OP); I'm certainly only doing it for the money at this point. However, I really do think I have learned a lot through this process, and have developed professionally. I do like the standards for my field. The standards were developed BY teachers who actually practice teaching what I teach, and there really wasn't a sentence in any of the standards (about 70 pages long) that I found to disagree with. They seem much more in touch with my field, much more relevant, than anything I see coming out of a school of education, or coming from our school district's central office or state's department of education. So that's something I value and approve of.

I was forced to reevaluate how I teach what I teach, how I know my students have learned what I thought they learned, and how I can prove to someone that the student learned what I thought they had learned. I had to relearn some things I had forgotten about since graduate school (and research new methods and techniques that came along since then). I realized as accomplished as I thought I was, there are still areas I could learn more about. I also got the sense that I really am among those who could be considered an expert in my certificate area: I've probably been doing this as long as most of the teachers on the committee who developed the standards.

The actual components were written in a convoluted way; that part I found annoying. And it certainly is one more hoop to jump through, but all in all I am glad I did it (but wouldn't have just done it for shits and giggles - the extra pay is definitely needed as an incentive.)[/quote]

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