horrible student teaching experience...HELP!

[QUOTE=Unregistered;18609]I am having the worst student teaching experience. I do not get along with my mentor teacher. I feel like she doesnt want me there even thought she says shes here to help me. At the beginning she would tell me to do one thing and then get aggravated when i was doing it because I wasnt walking around the room. I confronted her on it and it seemed to pan out but then new problems rised. She got mad that I was eating lunch in the other 1st grade class and didnt tell her...although she was in the bathroom as she claimed. She interups my lessons so now the students dont take me seriously and instead of giving feedback at the end of the lesson, she stops me and tell me what to do. I feel that it would benefit me more if she would write it all down and talk to me at the end. I am constantly crying when i go home or during lunch. I just dont know what to do. I am so excited to be a teacher and i was excited to student teach and have the best experience but now Im having the worst. Can someone please tell me what to do!![/QUOTE]

I do feel sorry for you. But please improve your spelling and grammar if you want to be a teacher:
even thought -- even though
rised -- arose
interups -- interrupts
stops me and tell me -- stops me and tells me
...and I'm not counting the missing apostrophes

[Chocolate_New_Orleans]

[QUOTE=Unregistered;38334]Unless it involves any sort of "green" activity. Then, on another recent post, you've indicated you'll whine like an infant. Apparently doing anything good for the environment is just too much for you.

Bwahahahahahaha![/QUOTE]


who says it actually works, the Reverend Al Gore. lolz @ sheeple who tithe to the new green religion

[QUOTE=Chocolate_New_Orleans;38590]who says it actually works, the Reverend Al Gore. lolz @ sheeple who tithe to the new green religion[/QUOTE]


Boo hoo, my admin has policies I don't think are based on truth and I don't want to follow them. Waaahhhh!

When you're in school, you're PAID to be a "sheeple" to the school's policies. If you don't like it, man up and quit rather than pouting about it.

[Chocolate_New_Orleans]

[QUOTE=Unregistered;38594]Boo hoo, my admin has policies I don't think are based on truth and I don't want to follow them. Waaahhhh!

When you're in school, you're PAID to be a "sheeple" to the school's policies. If you don't like it, man up and quit rather than pouting about it.[/QUOTE]

who's truth? A politician's truth? lulz


I tell my class all the time, my goal is to make my carbon footprint as large as possible. And everytime I hear of someone buying a carbon offset, I double my carbon output to offset their offset.

[QUOTE=Chocolate_New_Orleans;38599]who's truth? A politician's truth? lulz


I tell my class all the time, my goal is to make my carbon footprint as large as possible. And everytime I hear of someone buying a carbon offset, I double my carbon output to offset their offset.[/QUOTE]

Blah, blah, more whine. You have shown zero interest in the truth or even in any evidence in your posts on this board, and now you want to appeal to it? You entered *this* thread by saying the OP should just **************** it up, and that it didn't matter if you didn't like what the administrators told you to do.

Yet when it comes to your own behavior, you make a protest worthy of a third-grader. Guess your tush needs a bit of coddling.

[Chocolate_New_Orleans]

more butt-hurt over the fact that you have drank down the global warming flavored Kool-aid offered from the Rev. Owl Goar.

What are you trying to fill in your life by so openly accepting this theory? Why are you trying so hard to make everyone think you are a good person by being green? Seems to me like it's nothing more than being Green is an attempt to fill the spiritual void with anything other than religion.

The green movement is simply a fad religion that replaces God with 'the humans we are saving the earth for", replaces titheing with buying carbon offsets, replaces "Fire and Doomstone of Hell" with "Fire and doomstone" of what will happen to the earth "if we don't repent and change our ways" and replaces a crooked telavangilist who preaches fear to get trusting people to part with their money, with Al Gore, a crooked eco-telavangilist who preaches fear to get trusting people to part with their money.

THE WORLD IS GOING TO END - So tell me who I'm quoting there, Al gore, or Billy Graham.

Guilt people into paying money.



Everyone drinks some sort of koolaid, personally, I am happy that I have at least got to choose the flavor I get.

Oh my! this could have been me I also had a similar experience and almost quit teaching it got out of hand in the end I was so distressed I felt I could do nothing right and nearly failed. Luckily my lecturer saw this teacher doing the wrong thing or I would have. As the teacher was best friends with the principal. I thought at the time I could handle it as I was mature age it was not true and I am pretty tough it is soul destroying.I have since become a teacher and been a principal you must contact your lecturer ask them to sit in on one of your classes (make sure you have your lesson plan set)or just say you want another teacher, good luck.


[QUOTE=Unregistered;18609]I am having the worst student teaching experience. I do not get along with my mentor teacher. I feel like she doesnt want me there even thought she says shes here to help me. At the beginning she would tell me to do one thing and then get aggravated when i was doing it because I wasnt walking around the room. I confronted her on it and it seemed to pan out but then new problems rised. She got mad that I was eating lunch in the other 1st grade class and didnt tell her...although she was in the bathroom as she claimed. She interups my lessons so now the students dont take me seriously and instead of giving feedback at the end of the lesson, she stops me and tell me what to do. I feel that it would benefit me more if she would write it all down and talk to me at the end. I am constantly crying when i go home or during lunch. I just dont know what to do. I am so excited to be a teacher and i was excited to student teach and have the best experience but now Im having the worst. Can someone please tell me what to do!![/QUOTE]

Oh my! this could have been me I also had a similar experience and almost quit teaching it got out of hand in the end I was so distressed I felt I could do nothing right and nearly failed. Luckily my lecturer saw this teacher doing the wrong thing or I would have. As the teacher was best friends with the principal. I thought at the time I could handle it as I was mature age it was not true and I am pretty tough it is soul destroying.I have since become a teacher and been a principal you must contact your lecturer ask them to sit in on one of your classes (make sure you have your lesson plan set)or just say you want another teacher, good luck.

I find myself stressed and incredibily frustrated with my current student teaching experience as well. I hate that I even feel it necessary to hop on the internet in search of others that are in the same predicament, I thought that teaching was about helping others and affording opportunity. I have had several wonderful experiences with cooperating teachers over the past few semesters, but the past 8 weeks have been horrendous. It saddens me that I have come across so many similar stories, yet it gives me so much hope. I have had nothing but awesome feedback from every individual that I have been given the opportunity to work with but I am now coming home miserable and without direction from my current placement. My cooperating teacher is unorganized, does not believe in feedback even when asked, and lacks any kind of communication. I understand that she has never had this sort of situation presented to her but I am not certain that I should be the one to suffer for such reasons. I have tried to discuss with her the phasing in and out and taking over the classes, but she wont give me any sort of timeline for it. She just comes in and says "hey why dont you teach the next lesson".....20 minutes before the start of that class??! Whooaaa, why has been so difficult to acknowledge that you would like for me to take over in a timely fashion, I would enjoy time to prepare as well. Today, we were talking about a possible lesson and she didnt really say much but then explains to the students that I will be teaching them something new tomorrow, that was the first that I had heard of it. I am jsut incredibly frustrasted and find myself more and more angry every day on my way home. I am in love with what I do and I know that I am good at it.... but this lady honestly seems to have it out for me? What am I supposed to do? What happens when possible employers call her for an evaluation of my skills when she has resented my pressence?

[Chocolate_New_Orleans]

how about you be ready to teach at the drop of a hat everyday and hit it out of the park when given the opportunity instead of looking for excuses for your lack of ability. there is a fine art of improvising on the fly you must be able to do...[unless you think you will never have a lesson plan bomb and nedd to come up with something else] when all else fails, read and discuss the book/section.
what are you going to do when you think you are going to teach one subject like history for example, and the day students come, or a week in, you are switched to sociology or something. are you going to cry about it then too, or **************** it up....improvise one day, and prepare for the next time. [and yes, stuff like this happens a lot]

its not ideal.... but deal with it