Now I did a placement in 7th grade that was tough but I got through it just fine.
Im back at my old HS student teaching and everything has started to fall apart my last week of student teaching. After the fourth week( was incredibly sick but refused to call out), my student teacher bluntly came up to me and said I was boring.( I had observations before that went fine with my supervisor. )
My coop is someone I kinda knew before and honestly did not know what to do with me. She did not make her expectations clear and she was very unhelpful with helping me create new materials( a huge problem I have as a new educator). After a week of calling be boring, like watching paint dry comparing my handwriting to a special kid, and calling out my lesson plans as too vague, she has started saying things like she wouldn’t recommend me for a teacher. She compares me to another student teacher in the building and says Im not as good as them. She also barely gives and strategy to better myself other than “to be an asshole in front of the kids” .
I plan anywhere between 1-3 hours a night for my lessons and now she has started to want them days ahead of time. She criticizes me in front of the kids and says stuff like “Theyre eating you alive and you’re going to have problems” right in front of the kids. She says I have no classroom management but when I observed her for my first week she simply sat down read from an overhead or powerpoint and talked all period or showed a movie that many of the students did not understand why they were even watching. Shes got a real nasty tone and keeps saying things like “you need a another semester student teaching” and I didnt think you have the passion to be a history teacher…you don’t read enough..you seem uncomfortable in front of the class”…IM UNCOMFORTABLE BECAUSE IM WORRIED ABOUT THE NEXT NEGATIVE THING SHE IS GOING TO SAY TO ME NEXT…I mean today she got upset with me because I didn’t know where a website was where a video was…
If you think saying things to a student teacher like you’re boring, there’s something weird about you,calling a lesson a “train-wreck” and not giving suggestions to make it better, you don’t have the spark to teach ,you’ree unprepared(despite coming in everyday with something), you have to be an asshole in front of the kids,telling someone despite 4 years of training and a 1st placement(albeit slightly different) that theyshouldn’t go into teaching ….please let me know because this lady is making me lose sleep at night. Im seriously considering going into a counselor because the things she has said and done are not only incredibly hurtful, but simply seem unprofessional to me and other teachers I tell…
Please tell me your opinion
