Transcript I’m a huge believer in experience. Yes, you need knowledge, academics, and school, but you also need experience to become a well-rounded individual. Experience helps you develop those skills. Here in our district, you either need 720 contact hours with students to become a teacher aide, or you need 48 college credit hours. Actually, […]
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Transcript The semester is 18 weeks, but, for example, my practicum class—now called Instructional Practices—is a double-block class. It’s an 18-week course, but we don’t have 18 weeks of solid classroom instruction because we’re trying to get these kids field experiences. It’s really go, go, go. The students are surprised because we start as soon
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Transcript My name is Lori Rodriguez, and I am an Education and Training pathway teacher here at United South High School. I have been at the high school since 2012; that was my first graduating class. Prior to that, I was a middle school teacher. I taught seventh grade for five years at United South
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Jose Cerda David Canales Laurie Rodriguez Claudia Gonzalez Rogelio Garcia Dr. Geraldo Cruz Jerry Castaneda Cindy Dominguez Myrtala Ramirez
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Transcript My name is David Canales. I’m the Associate Superintendent of Human Resources. We strongly believe that the education prep program, and of course TAFE, is vital to our supply chain for future teachers. As many universities are having difficulty filling candidates into the teaching professions, we recognize that we are going to have to
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Transcript My name is Jose Cerda. I’m the Executive Director for Secondary Education for the Laredo Independent School District. This is my 32nd year with our school district. I have been a teacher, assistant principal, principal at both the high school and middle school levels, and a fine arts school director. I oversee the middle
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Transcript So avid originated in K-12. And when you think of elementary, middle school and high school, Avid was prepping. It does prep students for college, so that focuses on that. So students that are in high school that are in the TAFE organization. If there was an avid class, they could then have that
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Transcript Well. At Tim, are you currently with a teacher prep initiative? We are focusing on our College of ED faculty initially, once we are all trained. This will be phase one. So we’ve divided up right now is is year zero. We’re just getting going this summer, still years zero and then year one
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Transcript This is a quick fact if you didn’t know this, but so Texas were divided up into 20 some odd regions. I probably have to get that educational regions where we’re at right now is considered region one. Region one is the highest performing K-12 region in the state of Texas. So when when
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