[CALIBK12] TL degree program add-ons

[Catania, Amy]

Shelee,

 

Actually, you might be able to "team-teach" with a teacher at your
school.  You keep your job, and say a couple times a week, you teach
lessons, making that teacher your master teacher.  So you still get paid
to be a librarian and get your student teaching.  I did something like
that with BTSA.  I was a teacher, but only did the first year of BTSA
and worked outside of CA for two years.  When I came back, I got a job
as a librarian, but still had to complete my second year of BTSA (as a
fourth year teacher).  So, I began team-teaching with the journalism
teacher and was able to complete what I needed to do.  You should be
able to do something similar.  See what your program thinks.  Usually
programs try to accommodate you based on your specific needs.

 

Amy Catania

Librarian

Pinole Valley High

 

 

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From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu
[mailto:calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu] On Behalf Of Shelee Wilkerson
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 6:54 PM
To: Thomas Nixon; Cathy Rettberg; calib12 at lists.sjsu.edu
Subject: Re: [CALIBK12] TL degree program add-ons

 

I am in the same situation as several of you. On a fluke, I was hired on
a Waiver with my MLIS at a high school. My intentions were never to go
into education. I started taking classes knowing that I would eventually
have to deal with the student teaching thing. After dragging it out as
far as I could I have no more classes to take, just my student teaching.
If I don't finish it by February (when my waiver is up for renewal) I
will be stuck. I love my job and have a good relationship with my
administration. They have been wonderful, but the reality is they can
only do so much. Do I resign and finish student teaching (and maybe
loose my home and everything I own, not to mention gambling on finding a
job after my student teaching) or do I continue plugging along and cross
my fingers that I am able to work something out or get another job in a
public library?

Stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Shelee



-----Original Message----- 
From: Thomas Nixon 
Sent: Apr 20, 2009 9:18 PM 
To: Cathy Rettberg , "calib12 at lists.sjsu.edu" 
Subject: Re: [CALIBK12] TL degree program add-ons 




Fortunately or unfortunately (depending on one's perspective), the
ability to count something as student teaching is solely at the
discretion of the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. That being said,
like most government bodies, they tend to be rather conservative on such
issues.

 

Were a program to attempt to design something along the lines described
here, they would then need to get it approved by CTC and by WASC.
Getting such a change approved is unlikely (but not impossible). 

 

Or so I believe.

 

 

Tom Nixon

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