NCATE Accredited Schools

ILMom13579
Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:31:57 +0000

@techmom99 - glad to hear your daughter had another avenue she could take when teaching didn’t work for her. And I agree that limiting debt is definitely a priority esp. since you pretty much HAVE to get a masters if you want to get very far in your field. The state school route is the way I would love for my D to go but we have fairly serious lack of money issue that is hampering our search a bit. There are only, I think, a handful of IL state schools that have decent math programs and of those only a couple have decent SecEd programs. Add to that our state schools are still reeling from the budget crisis the state was in recently…there isn’t a lot of money to give out, even to residents! With her stats at the moment, we are finding some private schools, both in and oos, with better programs and that are as cheap or may come in even under our state schools. It all makes the search that much more daunting.

@DCNatFan - I’ve got a spreadsheet of the schools we are looking at with what each program offers. For us, I’ve listed the specific math classes she needs to take and then the specific ed classes along with how much “in classroom/student teaching/tutoring, etc” time is required in the program. Amazing when you actually see it in black and white how different each school program can be! One of our state schools only requires 8! math classes while most of the privates are 10+. The ed classes are all pretty similar so I haven’t worried to much about those. I’ve seen that there is no shortage of early childhood/elementary ed teachers in lots of places so definitely having a specialty such as SpecEd or a second language will for sure give her a boost when it comes time to interview.