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by jeffaz02t
Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:23 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: DODDS Hiring Question
Replies: 289
Views: 519289

Re: Advice

On the web site it just mentions 12 hours in emotionally impaired or behavior disorders. As long as the classes are specifically for emotional impairment, they should suffice, right? It leads to a certificate in educating students with Emotional Impairment.

Also, the student teaching was done through my university, and is on my transcript for 8 credit hours. Given that, do you think that could count towards the 12 emotional impaired credits they require, or would they just go towards the general SPED requirements?

Thanks again!
by jeffaz02t
Mon Nov 12, 2012 11:13 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: DODDS Hiring Question
Replies: 289
Views: 519289

Courses needed for certs

I am looking at taking a program that is online, at UCLA extension campus, which can either lead to a certificate in Emotional Impairment, or I can just take the 12 credits that DoDDS requires for their cert. It says that their program is accredited by the same body as UCLA, administered "in accordance with Extension policy and the regulations of the Academic Senate of the University of California."

Will DoDDS accept this? I have a cross categorical certification, and while I would like to teach MIMD, I also want to open up the possibility of teaching emotionally impaired students. This is my favorite population to work with, so I would love to do that for DoDDS. Also, would student teaching in a classroom that is specifically for emotionally impaired students count towards my 12 credit hours? I could provide documentation that the class was indeed an emotionally impaired class, from the teacher I student taught under.

Also, does the veteran 5 point preference, or whatever they call it, really help me that much?

Sorry for the questions. I am applying, I am just wanting to have a better idea of what I am walking into, as far as chances, and what they accept. I do not want to waste time and money on a program that DoDDS does not accept... Also, if my student teaching in an emotionally impaired class would count, that would make things easier as well.

Thanks!

Jeff
by jeffaz02t
Sun Nov 04, 2012 8:59 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: DODDS Hiring Question
Replies: 289
Views: 519289

Question

Okay, like many before me, I want to give my situation in hopes that one of you with experience can enlighten me.

First, I am claiming the 5 point veteran preference, since I served in the US Army for 4 years. Also, I served in Germany for 2 years, in Wiesbaden, during my enlistment.

I graduated with a BAE in secondary education- History, and a BS in political science. I just got my MEd in Special Education. I have a cross categorical special education certification, but I am going to also get a certification in Emotionally Impaired and I am enrolling to take the 12 credits in Emotionally Impaired that DoDDS says I would need.

In the next year, I will be qualified to teach (according to DoDDS website requirements): mild or moderate learning disability, emotionally impaired, history, economics, civics/government. I just started teaching emotionally impaired junior high this year, so I am gaining experience, and will likely have my professional certificate from my state (Arizona) by the time I am ready to apply

My wife, also a veteran, has her BSN (bach. of science in nursing). She could either do school nursing, or possibly work at a clinic of some sort. She also served in Germany for 2 years, so we both know what it is like to live overseas.

I have been wanting to get back to Europe since I left in 2007. Given my special education credentials, my multiple certs in social studies (I know, social studies certs are likely a dime a dozen), veterans preference, and overseas living experience, do I have a chance of obtaining a position at a DoDDS school in Europe? I know I would have an easier time if I opened up to the entire world, but I know my wife and daughter would not want to move overseas unless we were moving back to Europe, and to be honest, I would rather wait 5-10 years for a 'perfect' position, or simply just stay in the USA, than be offered a job in a place that I would likely turn down.

Thanks for you help, and sorry this is so long winded.

-Jeff