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Sep 21, 2005
I am about to graduate in May from a Texas college with a
degree in early childhood education. I will be married soon
after and will be moving to Alamogordo with to be with my
husband to be. I will have a certification in Texas and
have been looking into NM certification. Since all of my
education has been about Texas and the way it's done here,
I'm very curious about the differences between here and NM.
I'm curious about the testing, curriculum requirements, if
there are any curriculm frameworks like the Texas Essential
Knowledge and Skills TEKS in Texas? Is there a website that
I can look at to learn more about how things are done in
NM. Are there books I can buy? My concern is that I won't
know how to do things in NM like I do Texas. For example
lesson plans. In Texas we have to site and use the TEKS in
our lesson plans. I am fairly familiar with them. If there
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We don't have a test quite as "high stakes" as the TEKS, but
we do have tests. A big thing here (and, I'd imagine, all
over the country) is "Standards based"
learning/teaching/testing. Be ready to show how you will
design lessons to meet the state standards. You can get a
copy of the standards for each s...See More