r/StudentTeaching

One of my first times posting on Reddit, I’m planning on enrolling into WGU’s secondary education program with a focus in earth science. I’m currently not enrolled as I’m in the process of studying for CLEP exams to transfer some credits over to WGU. Currently I only have a GED, I’m 25 soon to be 26, I’ve been living in Atlanta, Ga for 21 years now, I have no kids and a girlfriend of 3 years who also wants to move to the PNW. I want to go through the WGU program while living in Georgia until it’s time to do the student teaching (I’m estimating 2.5-3 years maybe less) then moving to Vancouver, Washington to complete the rest of my degree in hopes of securing a job. In November my car will be paid for and I can start putting that $500 a month towards a moving fund which I’m estimating would be about 15k when I’m finally ready to move to Washington for my student teaching. Am I being naive? Is this unrealistic? I genuinely do want to be a HS earth science teacher in Va, Washington and hopefully even coach a extracurricular activities such as track and field, xc, or better yet basketball but I’m worried if I get licensed in Georgia it’ll be a pain to get a job in Washington and I’ll end up getting myself stuck here. Also would it make it even more difficult if I were to use the teach grant to pay for the degree and had to teach at a high needs school for 4 years? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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Hi r/StudentTeaching! I was an elementary music education student teacher in 2018-2019, and I'm also a first-gen college student.

I'm now a PhD candidate in Education Policy at the University of Illinois, and I'm hoping for support from first-gen college students to help with my dissertation research by completing a short survey. Right now first-gen students are underrepresented in the sample, so I'm working to find more. However, you don't have to be first-gen to be eligible. You're also eligible if your parents went to college.

The survey is about how you perceive your high school and early college preparation and whether it actually helped you succeed academically. There are no right or wrong answers. It takes about 10-15 minutes, and you'll have the option to enter your name and .edu email for a $5 Amazon eGift card after completing it.

To be eligible you need to be a current undergraduate at an accredited U.S. 4-year college or university, 18 or older, and have a valid .edu email associated with a 4-year institution. Feel free to pass along to friends you think would be eligible. Just a heads up that we do manually verify submissions before sending compensation, so please only submit if you're genuinely eligible and completed the survey honestly.

Here's the link if you're interested: https://illinois.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0ih9MqfNRxkPIMe?Q_CHL

Feel free to ask any questions about the survey or the research!

Also, if you're interested in the transition from a teacher licensure program to graduate school, I'd be happy to answer any questions, offer any support or advice as well in return. I have a lot of great things to say about UIUC in particular!

Hi everyone!

I was asked to be a ELA demo lesson for 3rd grade. I only have 20 minutes to teach this entire lesson! Does anyone have any recommendations on what I should teach!

Hi all,

I finished student teaching this May and I have been applying to open positions since March. I have applied to ~15 schools. I have only been called back for one interview, and then I didn’t make it to the next round. Every other application is radio silence. I revised my resume this week and have applied to more, but I feel like I’m doing something wrong. Is anyone else in a similar boat? When do schools start looking through applications? Is it still too soon to worry? Any advice guidance or advice is appreciated.

Hey guys, i see a lot of you guys are teachers so you guys would seem to know a lot more. I have a lot of stuff going on but the main thing I need to focus on sre my credits/school. I was taken out from my mom at 15, my sophomore year. It was mainly because freshman year I had bad grades and would miss a decent chunk of school. So she thought it would be a better idea to take me out. About a year and some change and I’m still not even in school. I’m 17 turning 18 in September, I would love to do community college but that’s even if I can get my shit straight. I have about 2 credits and I’m just lost. Not even in online school either I’ve looked but you have to pay hella money for each credit which we don’t got. So I don’t know I’m coming here to find help and maybe some good tips. I’d appreciate anything and thank you guys for your time.

Guyss I wanna know that the tutors in kolkata are underpaid or exploited or wottt??

Like seriously...I am tutoring a kid .. 4 days a week and 1.5 hours per class...and the mother actually counts per class and deduct the money even if her kid is the one who absents...and besides if I take a day off ..I literally compensate the class by giving her extra classes on Sundays.....I taught her for 2 months straight and the mother gave me like 1500 rupees...I was shocked.. seriously!!!

Working with my mentor teacher is driving me crazy. Shes not organized, her feedback is confusing, and I don't feel like we have a cooperative relationship.

I started student teaching in January. My courses and student teaching were scheduled to end in April. When I mentioned this to my ST two weeks prior she seemed surprised and asked if I could stay longer. By then I hadn't had any full takeover. She knew when my program ended since the beginning. Now I'm staying until mid June when our school year ends. ???????

Beyond that, during my lessons (her materials) I'll ask my CT for an idea or if we're on track timewise and she'll just say "I don't know, it's your plan" or "Are we?". Her feedback has been confusing (Saying I could've attended more meetings, but then telling me I can leave early when she had meetings). She yells at the kids a lot but sets them up to struggle. She uses AI a lot and inputs the kids' names and creates questions that are extremely confusing. Shes critical of the kids for being kids.

I know this is really ranty. I just feel trapped and want to cry or something. Counting down until June yayyyy!

Long story short:

I student taught at a district the entire year. It was a great experience and most of the teachers liked me. They had an open spot in my department, and I got an interview which went pretty well. The protocol at this district is to then pick a few finalists to do a demo lesson followed by a job offer to the winner.

A short time ago I got notified by one of the teachers that they skipped the demo stage and picked one of the worst candidates because they were a family member of a longtime faculty in another department. The teachers that took time out of class to be on the interview committee to give recommendations are rightfully outraged. In addition, I was only told by the hiring manager that they were picking someone else a few hours after that teacher told me, making it more clear that a cover-up was attempted.

Have any of you guys had a similar experience of not getting hired because of nepotism? How did you guys feel about it?

Personally, I'm disappointed because this is my dream job but I still feel satisfaction in the fact that I wasn't rejected based on ability and I leave with a degree of sympathy by those in the department. I also have had and will have additional interviews over the coming weeks. I will obviously work hard and hopefully have the privilege of landing a job.

Teaching English on Preply and trying to grow. Would love to hear your honest journey!

What is the most rewarding art of being a teacher?

One of my second graders (who has some behavioral issues) asked me where I was going to work next year. I told him I didn't know yet, but that I was looking at PK-3 jobs at this school and other schools. He asked if I could be his third grade teacher next year. Before I could say anything, my mentor teacher butted in, "Mr. Elater doesn't want to work here because he doesn't want to have to deal with you."

I once watched her essentially goad an ED student into a meltdown and laugh about it later. I can't stand her.

Hi guys, I’m going to be student teaching in the fall and am still waiting for my official placement. My advisor let me know it is likely to be in my preferred district just unsure where exactly yet. I requested high school and there is only one high school in the district so I assume we’re just waiting to see what the teachers schedules are going to be like.

I started my program wanting to teach high school biology BUT one of my professors has offered to be my cooperating teacher if I was interested. He teaches middle school and I’m not totally against teaching middle school as I was at the beginning. My professor is also fantastic and I know it would be a great experience. I think I’m just a little bit wary of middle school still.

So I’m wondering if anyone has any advice or insight they could share as I ponder this decision lol

I got a teaching job albeit long term substituting until I graduate in two weeks then I am salaried.

When I started my education program they told us how in demand teachers are and how quick we would be hired. I got a cold email from the school and hired the same day.

I am finishing this year with the school and getting scheduled for the fall

Edit: My certification is in Secondary Mathematics and Secondary physics. My initial training and license is from NYS and I have done fellowships and Teacher Residency programs beyond my Student teaching practicum. Should have included that

Edit 2: If I get fired I will just need to brush up on my coding skills and my ability to calculate Z scores. Analytical backgrounds go far today

Hey everybody! Im a new poster here, and I am planning on student teaching this fall, but I need to work on a resume. I have never really worked on a resume before or even made one so I dint really know where to begin. I have looked online but I do not have much experience that I can put into it. Any tips and recommendations help. Thanks in advance!

Graduate in two days and I have my final evaluation meeting the day after. My last day at my placement is also this week. I feel like I’d know by now if I was gonna fail student teaching right? I’m just a super nervous guy lol. Haven’t had any intervention meetings or anything.

Is this something that you think
Should be considered and actioned on a teacher to teacher basis, or something that should have school wide standardised policy for structured and formalised action across the teaching staff?

like the title says, I am recent MAT grad who has just finished submitting applications to seven school districts in my state. Right now, i’m in the screening-interview phase for most school districts. My state also has a large urban school district that is consistently ranked as being one of the worst in the country.

Last night at around 6pm I received a call from the vice principal of a high school in this district asking if I could interview the next morning at 8:30am. I accepted the interview invite and did some research on the school. I found out it is considered to be one of the roughest schools in this already rough district.

I was obviously very hesitant, but figured that at the very least this would be good interview practice. I attend the interview this morning and I ended up getting a job offer this evening. I call it a job offer, but the AP really called and said “you will be our social studies teacher going forward. Welcome to the family”. the whole process took less than 24 hours and it felt very rushed and sort of high-pressure.

I’m under no illusions about how difficult social studies jobs are to come, by but I feel like accepting this job offer may be hasty considering I just started the application process for six other fairly large school districts.

I’m new at this, and i want to make a logically sound decision. Any insight from experienced educators would be very much appreciated. Thanks.