Credentials and Authorizations to Teach Physical Education

One of the responsibilities of the Commission is monitoring the legal and appropriate assignment of teaching and non-teaching positions in the public schools in California. One assignment area recently under discussion is the appropriate assignment for an individual teaching a course such as marching band, drill team, cheerleading, or Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) [...]

CSET Multiple Subjects Subtests 1 and 2

I’m taking the CSET (California Subject Examinations for Teachers) sub-tests 1 and 2 next month. Does anyone who has already taken the test have any advice? Was there anything that you didn’t study that when you took the test you felt totally blindsided? What do you wish you would have studied more of? Anything you [...]

Have you passed the CSET test for Multiple Subject Teaching?

I am studying with a test booklet right now, how difficult is it to pass? Hard because you cannot use common sense or answer it like you would react in an average classroom in each situation. The designers of the test need to be in a classroom for a while before making up tests that [...]

Noted Photographer Receives Eminence Teaching Credential

SACRAMENTO ­The Commission on Teacher Credentialing unanimously voted to grant an Eminence Credential in Photography to former freelance photographer and Palisades Charter High School teacher Rick Steil, at its June 4, 2009 meeting. Mr. Steil’s experience spans twenty-five years in the field of photography. He opened his own commercial lifestyle photography studio in Los Angeles [...]


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