Advice needed

[rjryowit]

Cinderly,

Thanks for your reply. I have spoken to my local county office of education and am in contact with them. They are interested in me and when I will have my degree. Math teachers are sorely needed here. After my initial post, I have decided to finish the degree as a BA in Math at TESC. What I will have to do though is spend one semester at local Cal State Univ and take 18 units of upper level math, so to meet outstanding requirements for tesc.

The CA district internship requires you to have the following "Golden Tickets" as I call them:
1) have a degree, (preferably one in area you want to teach)
2) pass the CBEST, (which I have done)
To be highly qualified for math, CA has these single subject tests that determine this.
3)pass the 3 CSET exams which guarantee competency for math.
I have passed 1, taken and waiting results on the 2nd one, and then in 60 days take the third one.

The district will then emergency credential me if I can land a job. Then over the next two years I have to complete those courses they would have had me do at a normal university. They require me to attend their night school of classes to complete this.

I do have the inside skinny with the local city school district superientendent and local high school super as they are long time customers of my business that I presently have. They both told me to come see them as soon as my degree is completed.

Sometimes I need to just post my thoughts and it all becomes clearer. Thank you both for the input.