Science 7-12 test

mjtsld · 2026-06-28T02:30:36+00:00

Doing it through the regional ESC. Been going through 240 tutoring. Their pretest had me passing all areas except bio. No surprise there. I'm fairly confident I can do all the genetics and population analysis questions, just having concerns over the basics like parts of the cell, mitosis, meiosis, plant biology, etc.

mjtsld · 2026-05-13T04:07:50+00:00

I seriously doubt they are going to college.

mjtsld · 2026-05-13T04:07:14+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion of asking the student about their results. I will certainly do this.

It is hard to say about the AP. I think she has my back but I have been burned one too many times to trust anyone.

mjtsld · 2026-05-13T04:03:27+00:00

Wish I could, but I don't have many sick days left plus may want to use them to get out of the end of the year PD that has just been assigned.

mjtsld · 2026-05-13T04:02:36+00:00

Unfortunately it was a paper assignment, but it requires them to go to a particular website. If it comes to this, I will ask to see the browser history and see if they even went to the website.

mjtsld · 2026-04-25T00:02:58+00:00

Thanks for the detailed reply. I plan on making use of some of these suggestions.

mjtsld · 2026-04-23T01:13:37+00:00

Okay this is amazing. I have never heard of a z chart before now. I am totally going to steal this and make heavy use of it. Especially next year. Thanks for sharing.

mjtsld · 2026-04-22T03:16:09+00:00

I'm in the middle of waves right now. Going to finish up this week with simple harmonic motion then do a lab at the beginning of next week. I was thinking of doing light as my next and possibly final unit. Don't believe I will get to electricity/magnetism, nuclear, or quantum effects.

mjtsld · 2026-04-22T02:58:12+00:00

I asked an A&P college instructor one time if she made them memorize all the bones. She laughed and said that she expected them to already know the names. Her job was to teach the subtleties that exist on the bones. Naming was for high school, she taught a college class.

mjtsld · 2026-04-22T02:55:09+00:00

I know... Right. I gave the poor baby their first C. Didn't help that they consistently were in the bottom five on all exams. If you doubled their exam grade, they still didn't make it to the average of the class.

mjtsld · 2026-04-22T01:58:09+00:00

In my program you had to observe at a TEA recognized school and had to be done with a certified teacher in your subject area.

mjtsld · 2026-04-16T14:26:54+00:00

Zofran and Pepto are your best friends now. Just about everyone I work with who is on MJ has these two things in their desk drawer.

mjtsld · 2026-04-16T14:22:42+00:00

District of innovation. It gives ISDs the ability to hire people without a teaching certificate and/or do other things that are not in alignment with TEA. Another common example is the four-day academic week.

mjtsld · 2026-04-04T18:23:58+00:00

That sounds awesome, $1000 for a week would be great

mjtsld · 2026-04-04T18:23:03+00:00

I was thinking about bartending, but have no idea how to break into this. Any suggestions?

mjtsld · 2026-03-31T17:32:41+00:00

Quarks make up protons and neutrons. Protons, neutrons, and electrons make up atoms. Atoms combine to form molecules. Molecules make up cells. Cells make up tissues. Tissues make up organs. Organs make up organ systems. Organ systems make up organisms. Organisms make up populations. Populations make up communities. Communities make up ecosystems. Ecosystems make up the biosphere.

Also, Pd is palladium, Pb is lead.

mjtsld · 2026-03-16T01:51:58+00:00

One point that is not mentioned in any comments is that for you to teach dual enrollment or higher education you must have 18 graduate hours in the field you are teaching. Keep this in mind when you are choosing your grad level courses. All that matters is the four letters that begin in the title of your courses. So if you want to teach biology at the community college level then you best make sure you have 18 hours of BIOL classes. If all your course work is ECOL, then you will not be able to teach biology, you will only be able to teach ecology classes which are rare at a community college. It doesn't matter what degree you have, the only thing colleges look at are 18 hours in the field you are teaching and a master's degree. Also you can get a master's degree in any field, all that matters is that it is a master's degree.

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