Don't quit before you start!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Don't quit before you start!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Becky

I felt exactly the same way before I started my first experience. I met with my teacher a head of time and she told me that this was the most challenging class that she has had in 15 years, so I didn't think that I could
do it. However I got so used to the class that I felt that they were just a typical group of students, but every other teacher said they were an extremely difficult class. When I started, I first observed, read a few stories and helped out. Each week my supervising teacher would add a subject for me to teach until I was teaching full time. It was such a gradual transition that I hardly

noticed I was teaching full time. It was difficult for me to give the subjects back to the classroom teacher because I felt like I wasn't doing anything anymore because it had just became second nature for me to be in the front teaching.
Don't be afraid to make mistakes. My teacher was awesome about telling me what I did good on and what I could have improved on during some of my lessons. She told me that even after she has been teaching for 15 years, she looks back at a lesson and realizes what she could have done different. I am sure your experience will be a positive one. Remember to ask you supervising teacher questions because that is what they are there for and they really do want to help you become a great teacher otherwise they wouldn't have signed up to have a student teacher in their classroom.