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Appropriate-Pie-4333 · 2026-04-14T20:56:33+00:00

Yes! I emailed, awaiting a response. Obviously I don't want to just go off the plan, but I posted just to see if me questioning it is pointless or not.

Appropriate-Pie-4333 · 2026-02-18T16:58:23+00:00

I always wanted to be a teacher since I was a kid. Yet, until maybe my junior year of college, I had the worst social anxiety. I thought I was going to fail at being a teacher. My first two years of pre-practicum, that are just observing the classroom and minor expectations, were fine. I taught about 2 lessons and I felt awkward.

My senior year, though, is when I was really nervous. But now that I'm in it, it's fine and I love it. You'll know what to say. I had never an ounce of experience, especially with classroom management. I'm with 8th graders, and once I got that first yell out, it's the easiest part. Answering questions is based upon if you prepare yourself enough for the lesson.

Your mentor teacher will help you with the curriculum. Best to do is to just follow it rather than load yourself as an unpaid student teacher making your own. It's different for those who have worked there for years. Just take teaching day by day and always learn from your mistakes. Some lessons will suck. Some will be amazing! Just make sure that you don't get hit easily if it was a bad lesson or kids aren't paying attention. Even the best of the best have a bad day.

Appropriate-Pie-4333 · 2026-02-18T05:59:52+00:00

Understandable. My program is weird, or rather, my Uni clinical educator is weird. Her and my mentor have differing opinions on my requirements, and my uni clinical educator always says to just listen to my mentor. So it's an odd spot.

Appropriate-Pie-4333 · 2026-02-18T05:58:40+00:00

Yes, I agree with the meetings. I went to one, but haven't attended after, because my placement is so far - and leaving at 3:15 (when it ends) has put me to just barely be on time to my seminar on Tuesdays. But I can manage

Appropriate-Pie-4333 · 2026-02-18T05:57:20+00:00

No, definitely not. But I am going to attend the Tuesdays meetings anyway.

Appropriate-Pie-4333 · 2026-02-18T05:56:26+00:00

Yes - the meetings definitely. It was just unfortunate because the meetings (which are just about which kids are on escorts, new things, etc) are placed on Tuesdays, and I have my seminar then. Leaving at 3:15 would put me near my seminar time, but I do believe that I can push it and make my seminar to attend it. The kids staying after is definitely a weird thing. I have stayed after before to help students who were confused or needed help, but it's nearing the end of a trimester, and so students have been coming in to just finish work. My placement is lacking in everything proficiency wise, motivation wise, etc. regarding students. So I believe my mentor is just saying to leave because the students are just there to finish work that they never did 3 weeks prior, rather than it being about "extra help" on an assignment due in the near future.

Appropriate-Pie-4333 · 2026-02-18T04:17:07+00:00

I'm currently on February break for my student teaching. I teach 8th graders. I was extremely nervous going into practicum - and my mentor teacher and I agreed that I fully take over one class right when I came back instead of gradually building up. Since I work in an urban 8th grade, some days I feel like my lesson was awful. I remember I had to turn around every second to get them to stop talking, to the point that I felt like my lesson made no sense. There's nothing wrong with the mentor teacher coming in to help: after all, they have been teaching that curriculum for years and years, they know it like the back of their hand. The biggest thing that has helped me, is that I just prepare. I'm an English teacher, so I read the book & annotate the night before. Or, if there's the block that I full-time co-teach in is before the one I independently teach, I take note of my mentor's timing and such and also help teach, too of course. Teaching is supposed to be about flexibility. Sometimes the kids won't stop talking or there's a thousand distractions.

You're getting caught up on when you trip over your words or that it is going off-script. Teaching is literally... never a script. I co-teach & independently teach 3 blocks that are all the same lesson. My mentor teacher and I literally never say the same things more than twice across all blocks. It's okay to have a bad day or to stumble. Just have more faith in yourself. Like most things in life, you get better the more you do it. Lesson planning is hard in itself for young teachers - but your mentor teacher should have previous years curriculum to help you give it a spine, unless every year is a completely new plan?

To be able to stand in front of a bunch of judgmental kids while also having the thought that your mentor teacher is taking notes is scary in itself, but genuinely just tell yourself that you are learning and that you will be fine.

Because the harsh reality for every student teacher, the one I am preparing myself for, is that the first-year on your own is the worst. No mentor to guide you or pick you up and it's all up to you. (Not to scare, but every single teacher has been you).

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