Prior to Orientation, candidates were provided documents to sign through docusign. These documents are required documentation needed for the program and to meet requiremens for the Texas Education Agency (TEA).
Create your TEAL account. This is VERY important. We need this to report to TEA you are officially with our program. Set this up ASAP if you have not done so.
View the pre-orientation video. This is information is required to be provvided to onboarding candidates prior to orientation per TEA guidelines, View after oreintation if you have not done so.
Create a digital folder, either on your desktop or in Google.
We recommend candidates to save all electronic documentation to their own personal Tdigital TOPP folder. Within the folder, consider having additional folders within this folder:
Confirmation Emails
Training Certificates
Handouts from training sessions
Preparing for TExES. See Pearson Website page.
Go to Calendar & Schedules Scroll down to the schedule needed.
Complete Post Assignments 1-2 before registering for sessions.
Steps to register for sessions can be found in the handout located on the right.
Use the "Copy feature" or create and save an excel document from the Google Sheet schedule to keep track of the sessions you have registered to attend. Save the Zoom link into the same row as the name of the session in yourown spreadsheet.
Note: if you chose not to make a copy of the schedule(s). Watch this video on How to download Goggle Sheets to an Excel document.
TFA Corps Members only need to register for Ethics 1 and 2 upon admission. The next training session TFA Corps Members will need to register for will be Internship Training Sessions.
Set up a study plan on how much time you will be able to dedicate daily to study and prepare for TExES content exam.
See 240 Tutoring/Certify Teacher
Majority of TExES preprartion is provided for all certification pathways. With exception to the following certifications which will be provided access to Certify Teacher: EC-12 Technology Applications, EC-12 Theater Arts, and EC-12 Spanish LOTE.
Check your junk/spam email should you not receive the email granting access to online training.
Post Assignment 5: Download and save the TExES Preparation Manual.
The link above will navigate you to the Pearson Website page of this website. Find your certification area under the "TExES" dropdown list. Download and save the manual. This will be a helpful document as you prepare for your TExES.
Read instructions on who to upload certificates and documentation.