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MyCERRA: Teacher Cadet Forms

Detailed directions below are provided by CERRA staff to aide in South Carolina Teacher Cadet instructors in the successful completion of all online forms relating to the operation of the Teacher Cadet Program.

In the beginning of your semester, you will receive e-mail communication from CERRA alerting you it’s time to complete beginning-of-the-year (beginning-of-the-course) online forms. In order to access and submit forms online you must create an account with the MyCERRA Portal. It is crucial this process is completed accurately because it drives the information to your account that is accessible at the beginning and end of the course. As the instructor, you are responsible for scheduling time in a computer lab or library at your school to assist your students with the MyCERRA registration process, which students will access to submit Teacher Cadet Student Pre- and Post-Surveys.

It is imperative that you create and hold sacred a list of your student’s usernames and passwords to the MyCERRA Portal because each will be required, as will you, to log back into the portal at the end of the course to complete end-of-course forms.

Suggestion: Require your students to use their first name and last name initial as their username and then assign to the class a generic password. Be sure to add your username and password to the list, too. For example: John Smith, who attends Rock Hill High, would create the username “smithj” and the entire class would create the password “rhhs”. Record this information in a chart like:

Student Name

Username

Password

John Smith

smithj

rhhs

 Now, with an account created, you may access your MyCERRA Inbox and begin to complete and submit required forms.

 

Beginning of the Year / Beginning of the Course

 Approximate start-to-finish time needed to complete process: 10 - 15.

For the Instructor

To begin the semester you will access your MyCERRA Inbox and submit only ONE form: Teacher Cadet Agreement Form (we will receive this process). The form will ask for the email address of your principal—BE CAREFUL to type the address correctly. Once you submit your portion of the Teacher Cadet Agreement Form an email is sent directly to the principal prompting him/her to “digitally sign” the agreement by following instructions provided in the email. Be certain to follow up with your principal to ensure he/she completes his/her portion prior to the assigned deadline. If you principal does not have a MyCERRA account directions to create an account are provided in the email he/she will receive.

For the Student

After create an account, the students will need to log into their MyCERRA Inbox and submit the Teacher Cadet Student Pre-Survey. There will be questions on the survey that students will not have concrete answers for (SAT, ACT, class rank, etc.) – but we require a best-guess be input in those answer fields.

 NOTE: Any student who creates an account with the MyCERRA Portal as part of the Teacher Cadet class should use the same account to log in and submit an application to become a South Carolina Teaching Fellow. The application process will overlap the time available to submit online forms for first semester and yearlong sites. Students can apply for Teaching Fellows beginning September 1 and must complete student portion before 11:59 PM November 1.

 

End of the Year / End of the Course

As the semester, or year, whichever is applicable to your site nears the end, you will receive e-mail communication from CERRA alerting you it’s time to complete end-of-the-year (end-of-the-course) online forms and this is when you’ll be thankful for having created a chart of student’s usernames and passwords.

For the Instructor

Log into your MyCERRA Inbox. You will have three forms to complete:

  1. Teacher Cadet Instructor Post-Survey

  2. Teacher Cadet End-of-Year Financial Report

  3. Teacher Cadet Site Intent Form

The Financial Report will show the Site Grants Funds amount disbursed to your school by CERRA for the current year. The purpose of the form is to hold each site accountable for the funds disbursed to the site to be used for the operation of the course. The form does not allow, nor can it account for, deposits to your account, therefore a negative balance may be reflected on your form when you actually have funds available in an account at your school. If all forms are completed in one sitting; approximate start-to-finish time needed to complete process: 30 - 45 minutes.

For the Student

This is where you will REALLY thank yourself for creating the chart of student’s usernames and passwords. Each student should log into his/her MyCERRA Inbox to complete the Teacher Cadet Student Post-Survey. Approximate start-to-finish time needed to complete process: 15 - 30 minutes.

 

Troubleshooting

Please first refer to information available to correct any issues that may be occurring with either your or your student’s accounts.

Should the problem you are experiencing not be addressed in one of the tutorials, feel free to contact the CERRA office and ask to speak with Mychal Frost or Marcella Wine-Snyder. The toll-free number to CERRA is 800-476-2387.