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MA Teachers Chatboard TOP POSTS ALL POSTS SUBMIT POST Search Teachers.Net Advanced You're on the... MA Teachers Chatboard top posts | all posts | submit post Make MA Teachers a Favorite! We also recommend... State Teachers Mailring Lesson Plans • Math • Language Arts • Science • Social Studies • Music • Art & Crafts • Phys Ed • Other Teacher Chatboards • latest posts • by subject • by grade level • by state • all chatboards • language arts center • technology center • foreign language center • hot topics • interest groups Teaching Jobs Classroom Projects Teacher Mailrings Teachers.Net Gazette • Current Issue • Harry Wong Column • Teacher Classified Ads • classroom printables Site Map next post skip topic Print | Share | Report Post Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away? Posted by Amanda Goodheart on 9/13/08 On 4/26/08, Mrs R wrote: > On 4/25/08, Curious wrote: >> Are these exams keeping potential teachers away from the >> Bay State and discouraging Mass. graduates from entering >> the teaching profession? Just curious... > > > I seriously doubt that! There are standards in all > states ...and we should have standards , shouldn' we ?! My issue with the MTEL's is not that they are required tests, but that they are the only acceptable teacher tests in the state of Massachusetts. I am a Massachusetts resident who went to school to become a history teacher in Rhode Island. In order to be RI certified, I had to pass the Praxis Principles of Learning Theory test. To get certified one state over in Connecticut, I had to take the Praxis II History Test (for the record, Connecticut didn't care that I passed the PLT, as only content based tests are required in CT). With the passing scores I've received on those two tests, I am set to apply for certification in over 40 states without any additional testing...but of course, not my good old home state of Massachusetts. Not only do they want the Communications Test, but they also want me to pass ANOTHER history based test. Do you see my problem here? If these tests were all free (or at least not ridiculously expensive), I wouldn't have an issue. But the fact that Massachusetts refuses to accept the Praxis tests (which are legitimate sources of teacher testing in 40 something states), AND makes me pay to take their MTEL's....these things I have issue with. Moral of the story? Put actual teachers in charge of the Department of Education at the local, state, and federal level and perhaps the concept of a universal teacher certification test will come to be. RESPOND TO THIS POST START A NEW THREAD RETURN TO CHATBOARD Posts on this thread, including this one Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?, 4/25/08, by Curious. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?, 4/26/08, by Mrs R. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?, 4/26/08, by Mrs. D.. Re: ReMRS d, 4/26/08, by Mrs R. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?-To Mrs.R, 4/26/08, by Mrs D. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?-To Mrs.R, 4/27/08, by Ms. S. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?-To Mrs.R, 4/27/08, by Mrs R. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?-To Mrs.R, 4/27/08, by Mrs. R. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?-To Mrs.R, 5/06/08, by Shannon from Hingham. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?-To Mrs.R, 5/07/08, by Personally. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?-To Mrs.R, 5/08/08, by Shannon Tabor. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?, 5/20/08, by moi. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?, 5/20/08, by a moi de votre ami. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?, 6/05/08, by Boston. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?, 6/09/08, by moi. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?, 6/16/08, by Same Boat. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?, 6/23/08, by Amanda. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?, 6/24/08, by JG. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?, 9/13/08, by Amanda Goodheart. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?, 9/14/08, by J. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?, 9/20/08, by Marina. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?, 10/10/08, by sw. Re: Are MTELs keeping potential teachers away?, 11/08/08, by We SHOULD have tests.

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