I have a Tennessee teaching certificate and I have been trying to get a teaching job in Tennessee for two years. I have had many offers but when I inform them that I still live in South Carolina and will have to move to Tennessee they withdraw the offer. Come on people!! If I was not wanting to move to Tennessee I would not have spent the $200 dollars to get my Tennessee teaching certificate. I even resigned from my teaching position two years ago so I would be free to accept a position and move there.
In the meantime my South Carolina Teaching Certificate has expired. Last August I called the State Department of Education and they informed me that all I needed to do is send in an application with the application fee and send in my fingerprints which had to be done at an agency of their choosing. I had to be fingerprinted for my current job but they would not accept them. With that all done an safely sent to the Teacher Licensing Office I begin my wait. Keep in mind that these people are very slow. I applied for my license the first time in November 2005 received it in the mail in February 2006. December comes, no license. I call and they say we will contact you by mail. No letter. March comes. I call again; same response, no letter. June comes around and I repeat the process, no letter. Two weeks ago I get a phone call from them. I have until the end of December to take one Praxis II test. The test is only given on November 13. It is a new test that is required for licensing, this is the first time anyone has taken it, and there is no study guide for it. So what do I do? I register for the test and I am now creating my own study guide. I think when I finish this test and pass it I may try to publish my study guide.
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