Has anyone ever had a bad experience with their student teaching semester and what did you do about it.?

Question

I had a really bad experience with student teaching where my student teacher and education professor were both predujice against me

Answer 1

I take it that you have completed the training? I know someone who actually switched midway because it was so bad. That is rare, but it does happen from time to time.

Were your results bad? Most times when you apply for a job they want a letter from the cooperating teacher. Did they fail you?

I suggest that you speak with your advisor from the university. Explain the problem and see if she will write a letter for you that you can use for job interviews.

Is there another teacher at the school where you taught that might write a recommendation for you?

If you can get in subbing then you can make your own reputation. This can help you to get a job and it will not matter what the cooperating teacher said.

Answer 2

I feel bad for you; that's a rough position to be in. I've known it on jobs before. My own student teaching experience was relatively kind. I was with classes of problem students, behavior and learning related problems. I wasn't prepared for it, but of course as a man this is what I would be confined to my entire life teaching in public schools.

I'd been well briefed by my supervising teacher who told me most important thing NOT to do was to turn my back on the class. I learned just what she meant. I was preparing to give an audio-visual presentation--you know how Teachers Ed types love that--and at one moment I turned my back. You'd think I'd pressed some kind of Pavlov's dog button. The class was all out of their seats, and a few were headed me way. I rushed to the front of the room and slammed this button I'd been told about. In a matter of seconds, the half-back looking assistant principle and a black plains clothes security man were in the room. The asked me to leave.

I never really knew if it was a mock situation and I'd been set up. My supervising teacher gave me a good recommendation. I taught kids like that for just one year in public school and then gave up teaching. I wasn't cut out to be a zoo warden or a guard.

Answer 3

I almost got kicked out from my student teaching assignment because apparently some parent was upset that I was placed in her child's class. The parent knew me (or rather, knew of me) from church and I guess thought because of my sexuality that I was unfit to work in the classroom. Luckily, my cooperating teacher and the principal both stood up for me. I was really successful in the assignment in the end. But I remember that day. I cried as I drove home and very nearly crashed because I was dizzy from it all.