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goldmac2006 said:
Ohhh that’s why. I heard it is lotta work to get the full teaching license, especially that the program for the masters/undergraduate program must be approved by the teaching commission and all the required credits/courses be done prior to applying for the full/Clear credential (depending on your state).

Still got some student teaching to do?
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Serious business.

For some strange reason, not a lot of people are deciding to become Teachers.

Thus the creation of alternative means to satisfy the demands of the Schools that find themselves in need.

I'm treating everything as a Masters.

It's a lot of additional work layered-upon the incumbency of everything else.

My only "student teaching" is the support and guidance that I can potentially provide to my fellow fast-track coworkers . . . the Vets in my school manage their own ships ;)
 
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goldmac2006 said:
Ohhh that’s why. I heard it is lotta work to get the full teaching license, especially that the program for the masters/undergraduate program must be approved by the teaching commission and all the required credits/courses be done prior to applying for the full/Clear credential (depending on your state).

Still got some student teaching to do?
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Don't even get me started on music education licensure. At most (if not all) U.S. institutions, to get licensed, you HAVE to study classical music. Why? Because most states' licensure programs have "theory" and "music history" and whatnot as requirements, which almost always mean something to do with 18th-century European music. Why confine it to that one thing? There are so many other musics that are just as valuable.
 
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rm5 said:
Don't even get me started on music education licensure. At most (if not all) U.S. institutions, to get licensed, you HAVE to study classical music. Why? Because most states' licensure programs have "theory" and "music history" and whatnot as requirements, which almost always mean something to do with 18th-century European music. Why confine it to that one thing? There are so many other musics that are just as valuable.
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@rm5: That same principle (knowing - or, having some understanding of - the history of the subject) applies to almost any area within the liberal arts when you study it at a university.

And hardly any university on the planet will have the resources to appoint (and pay) sufficient staff who know everything about the (world) background and history and evolution of a particular area, or field, of study.

Yes, I agree that they are valuable.

However, in my experience, one sometimes only gets to study such material at postgrad level, when student interest (and demand) and institutional resources can be (profitably, intellectually, professionally, and yes, in terms of university resources) matched.

If anything, the opposite is true; quite a number of universities have abolished many of their language departments, and I know of universities where the departments of medieval history have been also abolished.

In any case, remember friends of mine groaned about having to study Middle High German (when studying Modern German), and others moaned about the difficulties of Old and Middle English.
 
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rm5 said:
Don't even get me started on music education licensure. At most (if not all) U.S. institutions, to get licensed, you HAVE to study classical music. Why? Because most states' licensure programs have "theory" and "music history" and whatnot as requirements, which almost always mean something to do with 18th-century European music. Why confine it to that one thing? There are so many other musics that are just as valuable.
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For music industry studies? If you want to perform at a concert you don’t need it. Why would you need a licence to perform classical music?

Y’all yesterday it was a great time to host a lunch event featuring an industry panel of electrical engineering and electronics experts for my club. Asked them lots of interesting questions and also some technical questions like power efficiency in Apple silicon chips as one of the panellists was an Apple employee a few years ago manufacturing the chips in iPhones. A couple of club members and friends came to attend it.

Learnt about lots of great things about engineering and insider information on . In house transition to first party silicon for iPhone, how throttling and battery degradation happens inside an iPhone and everything that I took notes on. The other panellist is a new electrical engineering professor who works at Panasonic avionics, he talked a lot about how multidisciplinary engineering teams are organised to create technologies and innovations.
 
goldmac2006 said:
For music industry studies? If you want to perform at a concert you don’t need it. Why would you need a licence to perform classical music?
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Nonono, to teach music in a public school. To teach a subject at any public school, you need a state-issued license. What I'm saying is that the systems in place to obtain music teaching licensure intrinsically favor Western classical music over other traditions. I think everything should be valued equally.
 
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rm5 said:
Nonono, to teach music in a public school. To teach a subject at any public school, you need a state-issued license. What I'm saying is that the systems in place to obtain music teaching licensure intrinsically favor Western classical music over other traditions. I think everything should be valued equally.
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Oh I see my bad 😣 I see that you still meant about teaching licences. So indeed you need a single subject credential to teach music and arts too
 
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Attended an ArtsNOW Foundational over the past three days . . .

. . . fantastic experiences, as usual.

My Institution is a PRTF, and we work with a diverse, temporally-transient SPED Client population.

We're particularly suited for Arts-Integration, and our teachers are extremely lucky blessed to have complete top<->bottom support. We have partnered with ArtsNOW for well-over a decade.

Think STEM + Arts = STEAM

I can conduct my Periods with a song, dance, painting, proprioceptive association, 3D-modeling, you-name-it...

Topping each Period, I can end with quiet meditation, written reflection or . . . well: anything I can envision to accentuate Client attention, and retention.

Still, I am required to adhere to State Standards, so it is up to me to directly match the Arts Standard to the Course Standard (Science, in my case).

Given sufficient time and energy, the sky is--literally--no limit.

Given my Population, I'm lucky if I can hold their attention for more than ten minutes ;)
 
This week will be the busiest week, alongside next week.

Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday will be filled with classes and finals. Fortunately, Thursday has no events or labs for physics, so after lectures, I can head home and study or work out early. On Friday, I have an engineering class final that the professor had to schedule earlier due to a conflict with my work schedule.

Next Tuesday is a morning final for physics, and then I can go home after it to attend a meeting on zoom with NASA.

Friday next week is graduation. 🧑‍🎓

Before the school year ends, I have several tasks to complete. This week, I need to return the rented equipment, including the magic pen and the rechargeable graphing calculator.

Additionally, I need to pick up two more stoles, medals, and steam the cap and gown.

This weekend, I’ll have to repeat the process of preparing my computer for return to the library. 😂 I did switch laptops after spring break as the WiFi modem got toast and kept dropping the connection.

I’ll transfer all my files to a flash drive, reset the data, and clean it. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find a deal on a MBP, so I can’t use the migration assistant until I get one during the summer. In the meantime, I might keep the files temporarily on my personal Chromebook and then transfer them to the Mac once I have it. Then return the laptop and the engineering textbooks on my last day of school on next Tuesday before the physics final
 
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splifingate said:
Best of results for your finals, and congrats on Graduation!
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Thanks friend. The physics final will be the hardest one btw… so my machining professor decided to move the final early to make sure I got enough time to rest before the other one and also so I don’t write too many memos for missed meetings 😂
 
splifingate said:
Of course it will . . . yet, you are definitely up to the Task!
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Got it. Also had my 1st departmental meeting today, lots of policies my boss covered. Team norms, vacation policies, getting roles, etc.

Quite unusual for my department to host meetings on a weekend- when2meets are sometimes wonky
 
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goldmac2006 said:
Got it. Also had my 1st departmental meeting today, lots of policies my boss covered. Team norms, vacation policies, getting roles, etc.

Quite unusual for my department to host meetings on a weekend- when2meets are sometimes wonky
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Sounds like they want to retain you...
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Well done and the very best of luck.
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Also had another departmental meeting yesterday, delegated some tasks to my colleagues as I will be quite busy with finals.

This evening I got another meeting for work and I’m also excited for graduation in 3 days
 
goldmac2006 said:
Also had another departmental meeting yesterday, delegated some tasks to my colleagues as I will be quite busy with finals.
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Good luck.
goldmac2006 said:
This evening I got another meeting for work and I’m also excited for graduation in 3 days
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Make sure that you take the time to actually enjoy your graduation, and to savour, and relish the experience.

It is a serious, and impressive, achievement; enjoy it.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Make sure that you take the time to actually enjoy your graduation, and to savour, and relish the experience.

It is a serious, and impressive, achievement; enjoy it.
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👍 I also got a free bottle of martinellis to savour on too! Sparkling blush.
 
goldmac2006 said:
Got it.

It’s finals week, and I aced my engineering final last Friday. Today is the physics final, and I’m hoping to pass it.
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I can only imagine that acing your Engineering Final is a relatively decent indicateur of how well you'll do on the Physics Final :)

It sure feels good to be standing at such a Peak . . . breathe deeply, and enjoy the perspectives!
 
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rm5 said:
Nonono, to teach music in a public school. To teach a subject at any public school, you need a state-issued license. What I'm saying is that the systems in place to obtain music teaching licensure intrinsically favor Western classical music over other traditions.
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To a certain extent, that is inevitable, given where we live and the cultures (musical and otherwise) that we grew up with.
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I think everything should be valued equally.
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Indeed.

Now, I don't disagree with you.

However, that requires resources, knowledge and experience, all of which are in short supply in an area (the liberal arts, the actual arts, and indeed, the performing arts) that is already scandalously under-resourced and supported.
 
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This is an interesting thread. Always full of opinions, I have one just for here 😁

My dissertation in 1991 was using Yourdon to create data-flow diagrams for relational database software I wrote (Ingres/4GL). My dissertation in 2023 was related to the cybersecurity of medical devices.

Bachelors done on-site (obviously, as the internet as we know it didn't exist!). Luckily, the masters was also on-site: the class which started the year before mine was mainly online, which - according to a friend of mine who did it - meant the class didn't bond and team exercises were a disaster.
 
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adrianlondon said:
This is an interesting thread. Always full of opinions, I have one just for here 😁

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...the class which started the year before mine was mainly online, which - according to a friend of mine who did it - meant the class didn't bond and team exercises were a disaster.
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F2F has always been the jam on my bread....
 
splifingate said:
I can only imagine that acing your Engineering Final is a relatively decent indicateur of how well you'll do on the Physics Final :)

It sure feels good to be standing at such a Peak . . . breathe deeply, and enjoy the perspectives!
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Yep that one took longer but not too long, now graduation is up next.
 
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