A few days ago, my teaching license came in the mail! It was great to finally have that hard-copy of my accomplishment of passing the Praxis II exam for English. When it arrived, and also when I saw my score online, I had feelings of relief. I no longer had to take more classes to obtain the teaching license, even though I had already taught in Japan and as a substitute teacher for Japanese (and other classes, but for some of the Japanese classes, I was able to make my own lesson plans because of how close I was to the teachers).
However, now I have feelings of the test being too easy...
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"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." --Mark Van Doren Oh man was I bad at it when I first started. I didn't even know what I was supposed to be doing!
Sure, my predecessor(s) left me examples of what they did, but without the connection to the textbooks to see which grammar point they were using or a play-by-play of how it was supposed to go, I was totally lost. And it didn't exactly help when my JTEs gave me the half smile and head turn when I asked what I should prepare for class. |
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