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I am quite concerned about the residency issue. I believe that new residents in the medical profession aren't given their own patients but just assist for a while. The nurses know way more than they do their first year. Gradually, they start to take over more responsibilities until their final year when they truly can go off into their own specialties. Most residents can leave after their first year and work different places like urgent cares or for insurance companies. Some doctors are residents for 3, some 4 and some 5 years.

I just don't get how this can be related to teachers. Either you have your own classroom or you don't. As a mentor teacher, I can't do a good job in my classroom and be supervising you. I just don't have the time. It isn't a matter of desire. It is TIME. Connie
CB I think I was picturing a gradual process that looked something like this...

First 1/2 year one: Observation, tutoring, small group pull-outs, teacher shadow

Second 1/2 year one: Possible student teaching for a couple weeks, continued small group pull-outs, shadowing, more like an aide in the classroom

Summer between firs...See More
Feb 9, 2009
pksped I also have concerns over this residency program. Will resident teachers be paid (since, after all, they will have completed four years of college), or will this program simply become a dreadfully long student teaching experience, where they are expected to do the work, but without any pay? (Doing that for traditional student teaching is fine, but ...See More
Feb 10, 2009


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