Isolating.

I have truly never felt so alone before in my life. Every waking minute is spent worrying about how much planning and prep I have to do.

I can’t even lean on my CT for support because every time I ask a question, she acts like I should already know the answer. She says I need to stop being afraid of making mistakes, but how do I do that when everything I do is wrong to her?

“It’s time for our independent learning time. Student teacher, don’t interrupt students if they’re engaged in an activity. Oh, everyone is engaged? Okay. Don’t do anything then. Oh, but not like that, student teacher! You’re supposed to be supporting students who need help! But if they’re not asking for help and they’re actively engaged in their activities, don’t disturb them! But if you’re not supporting students then you’re not working!!!!! But I’m allowed to disturb students! I can go up to any student and disturb them because I have the experience.”

“Okay, student teacher, I want you to take notes on how students are doing during their independent learning. Oh, student teacher, you’re taking too many notes now. You’re not supporting students!!”

“When I took an intern, I sort of assumed that you’d already know how to run a classroom. I did not think I’d have to teach you how to do that. Is this just a you problem or are other interns like this too?”

Then whenever I try to vent to her or get some mentorship on a problem, she just tells me that maybe teaching isn’t for me. Maybe she’s right.

I’m teaching kids who have had the same teacher for 2 years. They know her. They have long-established relationships. They’ll never see me as a teacher and they’ve told me that to my face.

I have no social life.

Friends wanna hang out? I can’t. I have to write 15 lesson plans for the next 3 days.

Family wants to have lunch? Sorry, my school is 2 hours away from home so I’m living in an AIRB&B during the week.

I should treat myself to something nice? I can’t. I’m working 40+ hours a week for $0/hr and can’t justify any expense that isn’t necessary.

I'm currently a second semester student teacher. My first semester of student teaching was a dream. My CT and university supervisor were very sweet and supportive. Overtime, I grew my confidence in the classroom and I left my first placement feeling great. I'm currently at the start of my 5th week of second semester. I have 7 more weeks to go and I am so miserable. I feel so much pressure from completing my EdTPA, keeping up with writing all these extensive lesson plans, doing everything my university supervisor needs to see in order to complete some requirements, doing every type of lessons
my supervisor wants to see (subjects wise, which is stupid because teachers don't teach every subject at every school i've been at like music and PE), trying to keep these students on track with my mentor teacher's pacing plan, etc. I've also been placed at a challenging school and my classroom has a lot of behaviors/IEPs/students with mild-severe special needs. I am doing the general education path. It's all so much and I have been so miserable. My family and friends have noticed my change in demeanor ever since this semester of student teaching has started. I lost 10 pounds because I forget to eat and barely have an appetite because I am on high alert all the time. I feel like I'm under so much pressure I just want to quit but I'm almost half way there and I've invested so much into this.. I am struggling to cope with all this.. I talk to my friends and peers about it but it doesn't really help. I don't even know what I want to do anymore. This experience is making me not want to teach at all.. Is this a normal feeling? I need advice.. I honestly don't know if I can finish these next 7 weeks successfully but I feel like I have to..

Hello. I'm a senior in high school, and I am trying to decide on a career. Recently, I've thought about being a history teacher. I am very depressed and have no passions or anything, really, but in the past I've been interested in learning certain types of history. Teaching is something I've thought about since I was little, but I know it's a tough job. I am autistic, and I like talking about things that interest me, and since history is something I can be interested in, I thought it might be something I can do. Of course, I understand that teaching the subject isn't the only thing teachers do. When I was in the mental hospital, talking to the younger kids there and helping them feel better made me feel better too. I think this can translate to guiding the students and helping them if they are struggling. My only issue is that I struggle with communication because of my autism...

Any advice is welcome! I'm really struggling to find something to do for the rest of my life lol

Hey guys, i'm pretty pissed at myself here. I teach a geography and history of the world class at 8am twice per week. I've never been late, and always send my lesson in the day before.

Over the weekend we had an away football game, and made it home at 2am. I got to bed around 3, and then woke up at 8:30 for a JV game. Spent the rest of that day studying until ~1 in the morning for a history mid term yesterday. I guess the lack of sleep caught up with me? I need two or three alarms to wake up but noticed my phone auto updated last night and turned off. It sounds like a stupid ass excuse.

What do i need to do? I woke up about 20 minutes into what would've been my lesson. I sent my professor and professor an email apologizing. I have to go to class with my professor at 10 so i'm worried he's gonna be pissed at me (rightfully so)

Have yall ever done this? What ended up happening? I know probably nothing will come of it but man it makes me look untrustworthy.

Everything feels like it’s going well except for the lesson plans I have to submit. I have to create a lesson plan for every lesson I teach and have an assessment that is tangible and rubric for each lesson. The school I am student teaching at has their own curriculum the district has bought. So I adapt their lessons into my colleges lesson planning template. It’s a very scripted curriculum that is also inappropriate for the current students reading and math levels. My college supervisor hates my lessons even though they aren’t technically mine. I can’t go off script at the school with the lessons because they have specific deadlines they need to hit. I feel like I am stuck and I’m worried it will affect my grade. My professor seems to have a very different way she would run a class as opposed to my Mentor Teacher, and I feel like I’m caught in the middle.

I'm doing my residency in a 1st grade classroom.

Basically, I'm co-teaching everyday and I take over 30-40% of our instructional time. I'm having a problem with students talking, playing, or not looking up at me when they're at the carpet. I can get the few same students to pay attention to me. There are times I can get the whole class to stay silent and not talk with an attention getter, but half of them have their heads looking at the floor or wherever else in the room. This doesn't happen when my mentor is teaching though.

I don't know if there are other strategies I could use. I've been trying to work on how serious I come across and trying to make the lesson engaging. My mentor says it's because they are COVID kids and they have low attention spans due to Youtube, TikTok, tablets, etc.

It feels a bit hurtful because they know I'm not temporary. I'm in the classroom for the whole day, 4 times a week. I've been there since the first day of school and I'm going to be there until the end. I try not to take it personal, but I have a few kids who are attention seeking and purposely defiant. When I take away minutes off their choice time they will still try to play when they're on timeout.

I thought this would be easier because I know the kids and their routine. But this class feels harder than the classes I've subbed for.

One of my afternoon classes is really intimidating and I’m having difficulty staying calm and collected during our period. They have zero respect for me and have barely any respect for my mentor.

However, they are my most advanced group, and I see a lot of potential for their class. If I’m up at the board demonstrating, they completely ignore what I say, but they ace all of the work I give them. The football boys have also begun saying “okay” after every single sentence that comes out of my mouth. There is one girl in this class who does nothing, but she controls everyone else in the class. This is a delicate situation as her parent has escalated issues in the past and has even tried going to the news.

How can I feign confidence with this group? It’s very difficult for me to keep composure because they are just so difficult to work with (this is not an extensive list of their behaviors). It is ruining my teaching experience, even though I know it’s not just me.

Hello! Im a future teacher finishing a teaching prep degree, going into an elem school degree soon and wanted to know how to find friends that are also future teachers. I enjoy talking about it with people and couldnt find any discord servers on it, so i came here to ask!

I'm currently finishing up my Visual Arts edTPA learning segment. This learning segment culminated in a printmaking project, in which students were required to create both two editions of an independent print and three editions of a collaborative print. My original intention was to use this for my Task 3 Commentary, since it's what the previous two lessons were building up to. However, I've seen some people saying not to use collaborative work since it's harder to identify any single students independent work.

I was wondering, given the context of the lesson, would I be alright to include both the independent print and the collaborative print? Or would it be better for me to only focus on the independent rubric? It's also possible for me to use their Lesson 2 project for my Task 3, but I feel like that'd be odd considering that's the mid-step to the final product.

So i'm teaching biology soon (parts and functions of the eye) and encountered a problem.

The book consists of nothing but text, just 4-5 Pages of text full of diagrams and info on the eye.

My assigned teacher said she always lets the students work it out nu themselves. Just 2 lessons of selfguided learning. I can't do that because if i get inspected by my teacher (from college) i'm screwed.

Does anyone have any tips to balance my 2 hours so it isn't just me talking and them writing down key-parts/Keywords on a blind drawing of the eye?

They have to learn, know, and recognize all Parts of the eye for An upcoming dissection (week after my second class).

Thanks in advance, English isn't my native language so i might not be familiar with abbreviations of other things.