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Originally posted by AOII_LB93
Ditto in California. Here there are two kinds of credentials- Preliminary- for those right out of their credential and bachelor's programs, and Professional - which is at least 30 units in excess of your credential. You have 5 years after the preliminary to get your Professional. It's basically getting a Master's degree. Most districts highly encourage Master's degrees(plus your pay scale goes slightly higher) and the vast majority of the staff that I work with have them.
In addition to the 30 units, you also have to do 150 hours of professional development every 5 years. I also think California has some of the highest university requirements to get a credential. For me it was 30 units of coursework (now more I think since they just enacted a new credentialing process again) and 15 units of student teaching, plus in the district where I work there is a BTSA program where if a new teacher you must be in it for at least 2 years, and it's a lot of running around and conferences.
And yes, we get summers off, but we also don't get paid for 3 months. 9 paychecks a year if you're a bad budgeter can be scary.
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Don't you have the option to have your paychecks cut and recieve 12 instead of 9??? I've seen a few districts give that option to teachers, but i can't think of which ones they are at the moment, lol.