My HORRIBLE Student Teaching Experience | Elementary Education
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- Making this video actually made me laugh! Looking back at these memories showed me that I was able to overcome this bad experience. I am so thankful I finished my student teaching, and it's a distant memory. I have no hard feelings toward anyone.
The best advice I can give to a student teacher is to find a good mentor, and someone who supports you. Finding a close friend you can vent to is also crucial.
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I will NEVER understand the sick pleasure a supervisor gets from treating young teacher-hopefuls like this. I experienced something very similar some years back, but I kept surrounding myself with positive people and loved on my students. 28 years as of June.. You'll be great, I can tell!!!
Thank you! I think sometimes people have good intentions and they go about it the wrong way. And other times, when people have power they abuse it. Definitely find a support system is the best way to go! 😊 I praise you for staying so long. We need good educators. 🙌
I was told by my supervisor that I wasn’t cut out for teaching, and I should find another career. 31 years later, I think I can say they were wrong.
Same story: "I don't think you'll make it as a teacher" and "You don't know how to connect with kids" ... Just finished year #6
Glad to hear you didn't listen and continued teaching!
Glad you didn’t listen!
Those people seem like they are super jealous and intimidated by you. You deserve better!
I did deserve better. Luckily I found one person who truly believed in me!
My whole experience in university was so critical. And not always constructive. Just flat out broke me down to the point where I’d be teaching to please someone. I’m in my first year teaching now, and my I’m blessed with such a positive and supportive community. In situations where my uni supervisors would castrate me using Charolette Danielson’s Framework, my current admin/grade-team/support staff would insist I give myself grace instead of just beat myself over and over. Teacher educators need to remember what it was like to start off. I can see why so many leave the profession despite it being their passion.
I’m glad to hear that you chose to not let others get you down! A supportive community is influential for growth. I agree- we all need to give ourselves grace. Teaching is complex, dynamic, and at times challenging. Much luck on your teaching journey!! ❤️
It definitely sounds like the team you were on during that student teaching experience didn't understand how a team is supposed to support each other, especially with a student teacher. My best piece of advice is to find those positive teachers and ignore thise negative teachers. From what it sounds like, your "mentor teacher" let her position go to her head. After several years teaching I've seen that happen to so many teachers. They are put into a leadership position and think that means they are the "best" and start treating others like they aren't capable.
Oh definitely! I am thankful for the teacher who did take the time to work with me, if it weren't for her I probably wouldn't have made it. She also didn't have to work with me. It is important to find those who do support us!
I started my student teaching, at age 49. I had completed my Masters and just had to get past student teaching. The school I was assigned to did not plan on getting someone who is the equivalent of their mom. I was NOT going to put up with BS. They tried to put me in ISS room, just 2 weeks after getting there. I said ok- these kids did not have to do anything more than breathe and sit there. So I started making fun for them to learn- we talked about Star Wars or Star Trek, we did STEM activities and yep, even had some great conversations, which got them out of their shells and anger. I was reprimanded for "teaching"....hahahah..I appealed it with my college and they agreed that 1. I should have never been put in there 2. I did a good job. I was also told by the teachers (I had 2) I was working with I was not good at teach...and then I found out they were in cahoots with Admin and they all went out drinking every weekend. I was way too old for drama and clicks. Parent teacher conferences? I would find some way to make the parents laugh and relate to me, to diffuse the anxiety and tension and the teacher I was with HATED me because the parents would ask for me. I guess they couldn't bully me because I am older and I would not take accept it. Teachers who do not lift up other teachers, I have no room for that. I now work in a non traditional educator role and I love it! I would never go back to a contained classroom. I am so sorry you experienced what you did.
What a story! Sounds like you make the best of any situation. Sounds also very stressful, and like high school drama. Glad that you found somewhere you enjoy!
I taught fourth grade for 10 years and then left to take care of my own kids. Your stories take me back to the absurdity that was teaching. I now homeschool my kids and it’s a happy life. I have never missed the classroom.
Glad to hear you found what works for you and your family! Sadly, the teaching career keeps getting worse and I don't see it getting any better.
Omg!! I’m dealing with this RIGHT NOW but my mentor (the person who observes me) isn’t the one giving me a hard time, it’s the Master Teacher I’m working with I think you called her a Lead Teacher, whatever point is, it’s literal HELL working with someone like that! I cry every single day to work, my hair is literally falling off!
I am sorry to hear this! Our lead teachers should be helpful and be a mentor, and it sucks when they aren't! Is there anyone like another teacher you can ask for extra help? Finding some support is what saved me. But I had a few panic attacks, and never slept. If you ever need to vent let me know. It can be really hard. Sorry!
My student teaching experience was back in 2019 (Queens, NY)- first grade in a dual language setting. It was horrible! I had another classmate who also went through the same thing while I was with the Eng teacher, she was with the Spanish teacher. Both teachers would NEVER plan with us during their prep time or ever! They would go on their prep time and literally tell us “we will go to plan now, if you could grade students homework and when you’re done, clean this closet for me?” This happened the entire student teaching semester. We were literally their maid not their student teacher. I had to “beg” her to allow me to teach because my supervisor was coming to observe me and I didn’t have any exposure and felt nervous because I had little to no teaching experience. I continue to beg until literally the day before of my observation. She would even read a book at the end of the day while I cleaned the tables. Simple things like reading a book, I was never allowed. I wanted to cry!
Wait! There’s more. During parent teacher conference, we were sent to “translate” for the entire school and never had the opportunity to translate in our classroom. Students thought we were the “teacher helpers”, bc one day a student told me, “when I grow up, I want to be like you….a teachers helper.”
This whole story is engraved in my memory and I will never forget.
2023: I’ve been teaching first grade for 3 years now and I still remember the horror of my ST experience. If I ever get a ST, God knows I will never do this to them bc it sucks and it is simply not okay.
Thank you for sharing. Treating your student teacher like a maid/servant is not okay! We are there to learn. They should be mentors and guide us. Sounds like a very stressful situation. I'm sorry you had to experience that!
Happy to hear you are still teaching and you didn't let that situation deter you from teaching. 3rd grade is a fun grade. Much luck to you in your career. I also wouldn't ever treat a human the way I was treated, hopefully we can all be the change!
You’re a really good story teller, this was interesting & kept my attention the entire time.. sometimes i had to “rewind” the video & was like WAIT did i hear that right… yuppp i did yikesss
Thank you so much for the kind comment. I am glad you enjoyed the video!
Sometimes I think school people some teachers and staff are pretty immature. Like a whole lot of high school girls.
Yeah. It can be really clicky as well.
When I student taught at the largest high school in the state of Ohio, or Cincinnati Princeton, I got the distinct impression that my two mentor teachers didn’t give a rat’s ass one way or the other what I did. To add to the indifferentism I told both of them early on, since they were both navy veterans, that I was enlisting in the navy rather than trying to get a teaching job. Back then in the late ‘70s teachers were allowed to just make it up as they went along. Which was nice. The kids weren’t that bad and for the most part it wasn’t that stressful. I wouldn’t even consider teaching today. I did eventually teach for 7 years but then quit to ship out with the merchant marine for 8 years. I finally went to barber college and cut hair for 20 years. The entire time I barbered I read at least two books a week during breaks between haircuts. Barbering is actually a much better job than teaching provided you are willing to put the hours in. For one thing you get to refuse service to the more ridiculous people. You can also have pet peeves you won’t tolerate such as screaming babies or toddlers who won’t sit still. But then there are always the flat-top weirdos who must be dealt with…
What a neat story! Thanks for sharing. I'm glad you were able to find your passion. I also love reading, and hope once my children are older I can spend more time. What are some books you like to read?
@@LearnWithJess The two most fascinating books I’ve ever read were THE OUTSIDER by Colin Wilson and THE PAGAN CHRIST by Tom Harpur. Then also A CRIMINAL HISTORY OF MANKIND by Colin Wilson and anything on UFOs by Timothy Good.
@@marcmeinzer8859 I’ve read the Outsiders, and it’s a great book! Lots of great books out there! ❤️
@@LearnWithJess The Outsider by Colin Wilson is not the same book as The Outsiders. The Outsider was published in the ‘fifties and is about spiritual rebels such as Frederick Nietzche, just to name one.
@@marcmeinzer8859 oh okay! Thank you for the clarification
You did not have a bad experience you had an excellent experience. You had an experience on how not to treat student teachers. You have no clue as to how wonderful that experience was. We learn more from our negative experiences sometimes than our positive
Love this comment! It is all about perspective, and you are right I still learned a lot!
Thank you for sharing your experience. I'll start my student teaching soon. Wish me luck 🤞🏾😊
Good luck! ❤️
Elementary teachers have to work so hard. That teacher sounds like a phony/narcissist on a power trip. If she wouldn't share , she was not doing what she expected you to do. She was enjoying the power over you. I always tried to help my HS student teachers learn how to survive. it can take some time too build up experience to be your best.
I struggled at one of my student teaching locations. The teacher never gave me feedback but talked about me to other teachers. She left me alone at the parent teacher conference. The parents that came asked me how their kid, with a 97% in the class could improve. Why was I marking them down 3%. My next teacher was awesome. She let me fail at a couple of times. I asked why. She said, “You got to be able to fail in a safe place so you know it’s okay as long as you learn from it. What could you have done to make this better?” She went on to be my supervisor during my first few years of teaching.
What a wonderful supervisor! I’m so glad you found someone who was supportive- that’s so important. I’m thankful I was able to find someone to help me, there are people out there who are willing to actually be helpful and supportive!
I had a mentor teacher who made my life hell girlllll I get it… almost quit teaching bc of it…..
Ugh! No fun and very stressful.
Some teachers only mentor for the extra $$$ they are not really supportive.
I have mentored several teachers over the last 20 years. I was never paid a dime.
It must depend on the district. My mentor teacher did get an extra stipend, but I don’t know how much extra.
My supervising teacher was fine but in the assessments the students gave me I was savaged as just an awful teacher. They were right.
I think teaching takes lots of practice and time! Nobody is perfect their first couple years.
I saw my student teaching supervisor exactly twice for about 45 minutes each time, once in my first placement in a second grade, once in my second placement in a 4-5-6 combined class. My first sponsor teacher was terrific. My second was just sort of there. He took attendance, mumbled the daily memo, and watched to make sure everyone went towards his/her class area in the quad, not out the main doors. Even I had to fight falling asleep in math classes. Within three weeks, I found myself “covering” for him while he “took a quick coffee break,” which meant he did not return. I notified my supervisor who advised me NOT to complain or speak with anyone, especially not the principal. This had happened for the last three years and the student teachers had been dismissed. So I took over Mr. M.’s math classes, basically, did his job for free. I got the student teaching award that year. I’m still in touch with a few of the students! At an end-of-year staff and faculty social, Mr. M. had the gall to make a crude joke about “I’m going retire and become a gentleman farmer. Who’d ever guess I could train a heifer to teach math?” This was in 1971.
Oh wow. It’s interesting that not much has changed on how we treat student teachers! Glad to hear you pulled through.
70% rule... 70% manageable in all, 30% chaotic in Teaching...like life ? Do your best, daily, the 30 % of individuals/ narcissistic individuals/ control freaks, you deal with....in Teaching remember. it's" 6 hrs of your day, but, not your day !", Find a program that works for you...don't let anyone " label you " Good luck Peace
Great advice! 🙌 I ended up leaving that school and found another school. Stayed there for 3 years, and for the most part enjoyed it.
As someone who has worked with so many different folks I just want you to know- there never was an email
I think you are right.
That’s horrible why would she do that to someone I’m sorry that happened to you
Thanks! It was a long time ago, and was hurtful. I am thankful for the teacher who did support me, and was able to be overcome the obstacle. Hopefully my story can help others! 😊
*hello! Future me here!* LOL, you’re so cute 😭
I start student teaching on the 30th, 6th grade English. I’m so nervous😭
It is challenging, BUT you can do it! Find someone who can be a positive support and advocate for yourself (which I get is hard)! Good luck. ❤
@@LearnWithJess thank you so much for this🤍
@@laylag.4219 Of course!
Veronica sounds like a terrible teacher tbh lol
Definitely was not a great mentor! 😕
I would love to hear your thoughts! Share them below.
Hi Jesseca! Really nice video! I really enjoyed listening to your student teaching experience and I’m so sorry that it was not the experience you were hoping to get from it. Believe me when I say, maybe not as bad as what you went through, but I definitely went through a similar student teaching experience myself. I had two placements because I was a dual major (Special Ed & Early Childhood). I loved my Special Ed placement with a passion and still talk to my cooperating teacher every now and then. But my regular ed placement (which was my first placement during my student teaching semester) was kind of similar to yours but mine was more of me being broken from it. I would like to share about it with you sometime! Keep up the great work that you’re doing now!
@JP Football Fanatics Sorry to hear you had a bad experience as well! Luckily, I found another teacher I could lean on else I wouldn't have made it! I would be open to hearing more about your experience. Hope you were eventually able to look back on it and find some humor!
@@LearnWithJess It was just a lot of that was really going on in my head during that semester. It was a regular Ed 3rd grade classroom. The way my univeristy did it was the three prior semesters before student teaching were you would get a pre-k experience, Primary I (one day a week in a classroom), Primary II (two days a week), and then Student Teaching (you would have two placements and I had one regular Ed and a special Ed). In my Primary II semester, my CT was also my mentor for student teaching in the 3rd grade classroom. We got along great and everything and I was really becoming successful and I thought that I could possibly make it through and graduate. On the last day before Christmas break, there was incident that happened between one of the people from the front office and myself about having an ID which I did not have all semester and the one day I did not have anything on me (not even a drivers license because I also lost my wallet at that time) and I got so insecure about and it was kind of a scary moment for me so I would admit my reaction wasn’t the greatest. My CT heard about it and she absolutely nailed me on that scenario as did everybody else in the school that entire day. It was just nuts. So when I come back from break and getting ready to student teach, I could just sense that my CT did not want me back in the classroom after that incident and ever since then, it was a long eight weeks with them and it was just an experience that I was just trying to get by with but the CT made it completely impossible for me to get through it as painless as possible. At least a few times a week, the CT always nitpick everything I would do or say. At that point, I was burnt out from that and all of the other stressors in my life that I was getting ready to just pack it all in and find something else. However, I moved on from that dreadful placement to a special education classroom at a completely different school, different teacher, and different expectations. It was a multiple disabilities classroom and I found a lot of joy in that classroom and my CT for that classroom was very supportive and really guided me in the right direction. I still talk to that CT every now and then!
@JP Football Fanatics That is great your other placement ended up being better, sounds like it sparked some passion in you! Student teaching is already stressful without support and constant negative feedback.
@@LearnWithJess Without a doubt! I always had that passion of being a special education teacher because of my own personal experiences I’ve had as a special education student. I know what most of these students are feeling and the frustration they must feel being in that situation. I’ve really come a long way from the days of being classified as on the Autism spectrum to where I’m at now. I now work in the same program I student taught at for my special Ed as a Mental Health Worker in Therapeutic Emotional Support for elementary aged students and I am learning quite a bit from this experience. Not sure if I am going to be a teacher forever, but I know where my passion is at and that is in the field of special education.
I hate teachers that are completely ignorant, negative, and petty. Are you still working at that school?
No. At the end of the school year I transferred to a different school/grade level. Stayed there for 3 years. Supportive admin makes a huge difference as well. Thankful I left!
@@LearnWithJess I’m glad you left and found a different school.
@@keciaaskew5166 thanks! I don’t think if I stayed it would have got better. I also enjoyed teaching fifth grade and stayed there until I left teaching.
Why is that camera up so high??
New to filming and working on angles. I have adjusted in my new videos. ☺️
@@LearnWithJess good luck with it all! 😀
@@silkbuttons Thank you! I have making content for about a year, and it's a learning process. Still learning and growing.
It doesn't make any sense why advisors treat new and upcoming teachers so poorly especially considering there is a major shortage! Its like they want you to fail
I never understood it myself. Why not just be kind and help someone learn? At the end of the day- that was their job. I wish I had the answers to why!
The entire educational system is run by douchebags who live in a dream world.