Mathematics Teaching Degree WGU -in progress!

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Hey student-teacher-student glad to see a fellow student pursuing teaching (we got alot of business and IT here)! As far as the Fundamentals of Diversity,Inclusion course and the Educational Assessment. I recommend taking Fundamentals first then taking the other course but they are pretty close to each other. They have lots of overlap. I took a week for Edu. Assessment and three days for Fundamentals.  They were both very situational which is fine for me but definitely as you are studying write down or mentally keep tabs of the differences and comparisons of terms(e.g Formative Assessment-can be informal/formal, used during instruction, not always assigned a grade. Summative Assessment -mostly formal, usually given at the end of instruction, this you assign a grade to.)  I also found that these tests had a huge focus on ELL learners.

Also I found what helped me go faster through these last three courses was to study about 75% of the way through the course (Day 1)then take the Pre-Assessment. Usually the course mentors will send you a study guide which sometimes has Powerpoints or videos that condense the material down. Also I would review the questions in the PreAssessment and shore up what I didn't know (Day 2) then shore up some more and take the Pre--Assesment again then take the final(Day 3). You can definitely do this! What else do you have to take? Which program are you in?

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Also on to what has become my weekly to bi-weekly update! On friday I finished Math Learning and Teaching. The course was a performance assessment. I had three tasks: the first I had to observe a teacher teaching a lesson and identify the NCTM standards he was employing. The second task I had to create a performance task and its rubric, quiz and its answer sheet, and a statistics writing prompt that encouraged meta-cognition and explain my rationale behind it. The third task was creating a problem based lesson plan where the students did more exploratory learning and teacher was just a facilitator. Also had to explain each piece of the problem plan.  Overall was a pretty easy class that only took a week. Required a lot of writing but I did not read through all the material. I think it was easy for me because of the experience I have had in this field so creating the lesson plan was not hard at all. The hardest was all the writing involved because WGU requires the lesson plans to be extremely detailed down to where the teacher is in the classroom in each section of the lesson plan. They encourage it to be so detailed the evaluators can "see" the lesson.

Also passed my Reading Praxis core 5722 today with a perfect score of 200! It was not hard and not easy. It wasn't hard like A& I Lit Clep in that there was no Poetry, Prose or questions asking for literary terms. It was not easy as I would say 3/4 of the exam asked questions that required you to read the whole passage in order to answer. Unlike my other tests I was really pressed for time on this one. I made my first run through and had 45 minutes on the clock. So I made my second run through the test and only had 14 minutes left. At that point I felt pretty confident and told myself it would be what it would be. Normally I keep to a schedule of three runs per test but it worked out for this one!

To study for it, I used my CLEP A & I Lit test and English Composition test. I have the Barron's Core test prep book but when it comes to reading it was AWFUL!!!!! The test question in this book are worthless outside of math. I basically used my notes from A&I lit and English Comp. CLEP. I do feel that on the scale of those two tests and this Praxis, the Praxis is easier.