Re: Failing Student Teaching
Posted by MSR on 6/29/08
Sorry. I re-read your post and noted that you took typos into
consideration when you made your statement. However, please
remember that no one is perfect. Many student teachers are going
to make more than one mistake in many areas. The important thing
is how much they have improved from the beginning of the semester
to the end.
We all need room to fail before we can succeed.
On 6/27/08, to everyone.. wrote:
> 1) Advisors do not decide what classes people have to take, nor
> does it make sense that any advisor would either tell someone
> they need to take a class while student teaching or failing
> them as revenge for getting a waiver for a class.
>
> 2) No, an advisor can not "make" him take a class..but if she's
> STing why would anyone think he needs in intro class in his
> subject anyway?
>
> 3) I'm with the advisor that if ST performance is not up to par
> the ST should try to limit gigging/working to focus on this
> job.
>
> 4) to Kate: How to fail student teaching.. Writing how DO one..
> as in "How do one write formal lesson plans in this school,
> (or deal with a student who's been chatting all class, etc.)..
> is a good start. I'd forgive one mistakes/type-o like that,
> but the second time my ST wrote or said "how do one" I'd be
> telling them they are at risk for failing if they can't show
> they have mastered basic grammar. (I do teach Spanish so I'd
> cut a native Spanish speaker (who's first language is not
> English) some slack on grammar.. but otherwise "how do one"
> is totally unacceptable.) On 6/24/08, Kate wrote:
>> Okay, I'm about to begin student teaching soon. I would like
>> to know how do one fail student teaching? What should I be
>> on the look out for?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> On 5/21/08, A Wife wrote:
>>> My husband is currently an first-year intern in CA and
>> found
>>> out today that he is failing student teaching. His advisor
>>> said that he has to sign a contract saying that he will
>> take
>>> Intro To Music Ed, a class that he does not have to take
>>> since he passed the CSET. His advisor has been upset with
>>> him for passing the CSET and not having to take other
>>> classes, so she has been after any excuse to get him to
>> take
>>> the classes. She even told him today that he needs to quit
>>> gigging and teaching privately (both of which we need as
>>> income, as I'm currently a SAHM
>>> teacher> to 2 babies. So, it seems as if her requests
>>> aren't ethical, right? But what about his rights as a
>>> student? Can she really make him take that class?
>
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Failing Student Teaching, 5/21/08, by A Wife.
- Re: Failing Student Teaching, 5/22/08, by Darren B..
- Re: Failing Student Teaching, 6/12/08, by ??.
- Re: Failing Student Teaching, 6/24/08, by Kate.
- Re: Failing Student Teaching, 6/25/08, by Teacher.
- Re: Failing Student Teaching, 6/25/08, by Kate.
- Re: Failing Student Teaching, 6/27/08, by to everyone...
- Re: I'm to everyone.., 6/27/08, by OOPS no ing on fail, sorry nfm.
- Re: Failing Student Teaching, 6/29/08, by MSR.
- Re: Failing Student Teaching, 6/29/08, by MSR.
- Re: Rafe Esquith had to do student teaching twice, 6/29/08, by that puts things into perspective at least for me (nfm).
- Re: Failing Student Teaching, 6/30/08, by Kate.
- Re: Failing Student Teaching, 7/01/08, by Very Veteran Teacher to Kate.
- Re: Failing Student Teaching, 7/01/08, by Tammy Urban.
- Re: Failing Student Teaching, 7/09/08, by Daddy-o.
- Re: Failing Student Teaching, 7/09/08, by Sue.
- Re: Failing Student Teaching, 7/10/08, by bill.
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