Tips for student teaching

Student teaching is an experience that I would never forget. There are many ups and downs but it turned out very well at the end. Some tips and advice for future students is to:

• Plan, Plan, and Plan
• Prepare all lessons with enough time in advance
• Always have a back up plan with lessons
• Take constructive criticism and use that to better yourself as a teacher and your lessons
• Try not to work if you do not have to
• Do not be intimidated and don't let the anxiety and stress get you down
• Look at everyday day as an adventure
• Look at the students as if they were truly your own
• The students will look up to you and respect you if you respect them.
• Student teaching is very stressful but that will eventually diminish the longer you are teaching.
• The anxiety will go away.
• Take the time to learn your students and who they truly are
• Listen to the advice from the outcome of your observations
• Create activities and lessons that relate to the students interests
• DO NOT GIVE UP!
• It seems like it will last forever, but it goes by very fast