Published: September 8, 2010

My First Student Teacher

Teaching is a profession that cannot be simulated in anything except an authentic school with real-life kids. In order to know what it is really like, one must experience it for themselves. —Sarah Henchey, 2003, after two months of full-time student teaching.

I didn’t technically sign up to host a student teacher. When the call for cooperating teachers went out last winter, I simply told myself I just wasn’t there yet; perhaps after a few more years. However, a few months later, when the local university, my alma mater, still needed a placement for one of their pre-service teachers, I gave into the pressure and agreed.

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