How do you know
when you’ve been doing NCATE
too long?
(With apologies to Letterman for adopting the "countdown" approach
and to Kate Steffins for adapting her good idea to my own purposes)
You know you've been doing NCATE too long when...

#10  You can recite the standards... by heart. ... in descending order.

#9  Your SPA program review coordinator is on your speed dial.

#8  Your family and friends think N-KATE is a long lost relative.

#7 You think of adult conversation as evidence of reflection.

#6 Your computer automatically logs onto the NCATE website when you type a word beginning with “N.”

#5  You begin each of your classes with a choral recitation of the standards to be met in your course.

#4  You call your own children “candidates.”

#3 The mention of the word “SPA” causes you to break into hives.

#2  You rate your love life on a rubric from “fails to meet standard” to “exemplary.”

#1 You dive into an open elevator shaft rather than meet Deb in the hallway.
 
 

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