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drowning in 3rd grade

by Sam

Apr 8, 2012

I am so glad I found this chat board! I don't get a lot of opportunities to talk to student teachers from my school since I'm living at home and commuting to school. I'm about to enter my 3rd week of student teaching in a 3rd grade room in rural Illinois. The kids are great. I love them. I have a lot of issues with it though. For one, I'm only there for 8 weeks since I'm an Early childhood education major and had to have 2 placements. This is not even NEAR enough time to observe as much as you need to. My teacher has a very different organizational system than I do which makes it very hard to keep up with all the things she's asking me to do. She never gives me any positive feedback, it's always negative or something I need to "think about." I think she understands how stressed I am but then she'll say something like, "Your whole first year of teaching will be like this." I'm aware. However, I also think it will be so much better when I can run things the way I want to. There's just so...See More

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Leah 1. I'm sorry you are having a difficult time. 2. There is a third grade Chatboard on T-net where teachers would be glad to help you if you can be more specific. 3. You need basals to look at to review your lessons. Ask her how you could access to a set. 4. The fact that you receive no positive feedback is always difficult. You must be doing someth...See More

Apr 8, 2012

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anon I will did a split placement as well. The only difference in my case is I had known the students in my first placement. I agree a week to observe is not really enough if you do not know the students. How much lesson planning did your program have you do. I felt confident in this area because I did so much lesson planning. Ask your teacher if you ca...See More

Apr 9, 2012

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Sam Thanks so much for your responses! I like the idea of keeping a journal about my successes. I've already started a blog so maybe I'll put my successes in there. For the basals, I think I'm going to see if I can make copies of the pages. That way, I'm not making her nervous about not getting them back, but I'll still have the lessons to review what ...See More

Apr 9, 2012

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Leah Hang in there.... You can do it

Apr 9, 2012

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The Resourceful Teacher I'm so sorry to hear about your situation! She's not a very good master teacher if she's making you feel like this.

A good way for me to organize information is by keeping sticky notes around. Whenever I think of something new I have to do, I write it down on a sticky note.

Hopefully this helps. And luckily for you it's only 8 ...See MoreI'm so sorry to hear about your situation! She's not a very good master teacher if she's making you feel like this.

A good way for me to organize information is by keeping sticky notes around. Whenever I think of something new I have to do, I write it down on a sticky note.

Hopefully this helps. And luckily for you it's only 8 weeks that you have to deal with her. Let's hope that your new master teacher for your 2nd round of student teaching is more encouraging!

On 4/08/12, Sam wrote: > I am so glad I found this chat board! I don't get a lot of > opportunities to talk to student teachers from my school > since I'm living at home and commuting to school. I'm about > to enter my 3rd week of student teaching in a 3rd grade > room in rural Illinois. The kids are great. I love them. I > have a lot of issues with it though. For one, I'm only > there for 8 weeks since I'm an Early childhood education > major and had to have 2 placements. This is not even NEAR > enough time to observe as much as you need to. My teacher > has a very different organizational system than I do which > makes it very hard to keep up with all the things she's > asking me to do. She never gives me any positive feedback, > it's always negative or something I need to "think about." > I think she understands how stressed I am but then she'll > say something like, "Your whole first year of teaching will > be like this." I'm aware. However, I also think it will be > so much better when I can run things the way I want to. > There's just so much stuff I have to remember at one time > and I always feel like I'm only prepared for the next day. > Weekends are even worse because even though I get to relax, > I don't have any of the basals to look at to review for my > lessons. I don't think my teacher would let me borrow them > because she'd be afraid she wouldn't get them back the next > day if I were to get sick or something. It's just a lot of > things that add up to make me feel like I want to cry every > single day and I don't even know what to do first to fix > everything. I've tried a billion different strategies for > organizing, but when my teacher has things set up a certain > way in her classroom, it's really hard for our different > methods of organizing to click.

Apr 15, 2012

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