Okay, I just registered for the Math MTEL. It'll be right before my last week of summer classes, so I'm nervous about not having any time to study. Also, it cost me 120 dollars. That's on top of the 90 dollars I paid last year to take the Communications & Literacy MTEL (the "General" test, which makes sure you can, like, speak and read English) and is separate from the 100 dollars it'll take to apply for licensure.
Okay, granted, all these fees are a year apart, and compared to what it costs to take the bar or other professional licensure requirements I understand that it's dinky, but... it's still annoying.
What the hell kind of drugs help dyslexia?
Kids with dyslexia are often (mis)treated with stimulant drugs, or antidepressants, or even antipsychotics. The drugs are given based on the disruptive/withdrawn/disorganized behavior that is associated with undiagnosed dyslexia in the classroom, not for the dyslexia itself. Assuming that Tom was as likely to be misdiagnosed as often as other boys of his generation, I suspect that his is right about this.
Not a justification for being a nut about medication later in life, though.
Also, I dreamed last night that I was teaching a math class and had some time to kill so told them they could ask me about anything. They asked me about modernism, and I had to try to remember the details of my senior year seminar from eleven years ago.
Rick, you have no tagline! (For posterity: )
You're such an enigma.
OK- I JUST got the Top. I was thinking it had something to do with Top Gun
Paul Walker is definitely wet in that photo. Wet, and yum.
What would you all say "generals" mean in terms of college classes?
I also think she probably means general requirements, and that she should rethink transferring to a school that doesn't offer an accounting major. I wonder how she managed to get to the point of actually transferring without noticing the school didn't have the major she wanted?
I believe the substance of the joke is to assume that dyslexia might reverse letter order, rather than just letter orientation.
Also, apparently I need to know non-Euclidean geometry in order to teach high school math. Um. Do I know non-Euclidean geometry?
poor amych, isn't dyslexic.
amych, it's a dyslexia joke...
Kids with dyslexia are often (mis)treated with stimulant drugs, or antidepressants, or even antipsychotics. The drugs are given based on the disruptive/withdrawn/disorganized behavior that is associated with undiagnosed dyslexia in the classroom, not for the dyslexia itself. Assuming that Tom was as likely to be misdiagnosed as often as other boys of his generation, I suspect that his is right about this.
Ah, OK then. At least there's some small shred of sense-making.
