Re: Student Teaching experience horrible!

Jenny Logan

Posted on 2/14/10

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Thank you so much for sharing with me! I am still dismayed at this
teacher that wouldn't let me pass. I, too, did not get to say
goodbye to the children. I ran into one of them at the store and
they said they missed me so much and enjoyed my teaching them. That
meant the world to me. However, this teacher did put a blackmark
on my record and has prevented me from teaching in her school
district (by spreading rumors, etc.).

I'll never understand people like her. She was elderly and may have
felt threatened to lose her job so close to retirement. I hope
what comes around goes around! Best wishes to you,
Jenny

On 2/14/10, Sympathetic wrote:
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> I had a similar experience with one of the placements in my
> student teaching. Until the last week, she was constantly telling
> me what a great job I was doing. Five years later, I still do not
> know what changed her mind- I think that it might be the fact
> that I was leaving. The last week, she made my life miserable.
> She yelled at me in front of the students, refused to eat lunch
> with me, and always surrounded herself with other staff members.
> We had meetings with the principal where they tag-teamed me. I
> was near a breakdown. I went to the principal to discuss maybe
> not coming in the last couple of days. (I had not taken a sick
> day.) The principal told me that such a move would constitute
> abandonment. Then the last day of school, she called me out into
> the hallway and told me that I had to leave immediately (two
> hours before the students left) because of my "unprofessional"
> behavior towards her. I never had a chance to tell my first class
> goodbye. She tried to have me do my student teaching over again.
> Again, my school stepped in and I was allowed to go to my second
> placement, where she had e-mailed my new CT and ripped me apart.
> Fortunately, my new CT had a mind of her own and that was the end
> of the matter.
> I know this woman has had problems in the past with student
> teachers (she always had horror stories about them), but my
> school continued to use her. My area of Pennsylvania has many
> colleges and they find it difficult to place all the student
> teachers they have.
> Learning to deal with this sort of person will actually benefit
> you, as teachers serve all sorts of people.
> Good luck!

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