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I am teaching in Spanish. My cooperating teacher thinks my Spanish is not good enough to keep student teaching this year. He has suggested to my University that I stop student teaching and get more practice in Spanish and try in the Fall. Would you do that?
Andy the ExStudent teacher Talk to your University advisor that is responsible for your Spanish education courses; he or she can help greatly. While I did my student teaching, my master teacher that year bit off more that she could chew: She was department chair, head of the WASC committee, and took the duty of master teacher with all that on her plate. She would regularly l...See More
Feb 7, 2012
SI!! Content is everything!! If your CT thinks you are not subject competent you'll have a hard time getting a job--and if a principal or parents find you to be content incompenent you could lose your job. Plus it's better for the kids to have a Spanish teacher with a higher level of Spanish.

Drop and get a job teaching English and a Spanish s...See More
Mar 7, 2012
Andy, you are out of line.. First of all, Spanish is NOT uselsss. We have the third largest Spanish speaking population in the world here-- the US has ten times more native Spanish speakers than Costa Rica. If you want any job in California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas or Florida it helps to know at least some Spanish. French is not useless, either.. just because we are lucky ...See More
Mar 7, 2012
delehla I love SI's idea. Would this be possible for you? What an awesome and educationally beneficial job. Can you imagine having that on your resume when you return as well as your much improved Spanish language skills?

On 3/07/12, SI!! wrote: > Content is everything!! If your CT thinks you are not subject > competent you'll have a hard ti...See More
Apr 13, 2012


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