The following articles are written by student teachers who have been placed throughout the state. Their experiences reflect the actual experiences of an emerging professional, a role you will soon fill.

10/1/2007
Obedience versus Responsibility
The critical moment came when I asked my calendar helper to call on a friend to help her answer a question that I had asked. Several students raised their hands and some of them were so eager to answer that they moaned, stretched their arms way up into the air, and even stood up or began calling out the calendar helper's name. Read the full story...

Feeling Safe in Lockdown
Thursday, shortly after the class arrived from lunch, the principal came over the intercom and told us the school was in lockdown. Teachers were instructed to lock the doors, shut off the lights and close the blinds. Students sat against the wall so no person outside the room could see them from the door. Read the full story...

No Child Left Behind, A Different Story
There is a student in my class (I will call him “Bobby”) who's father died when he was only one year old from cancer. You would never know something so traumatic happened to this child because he is the most fun loving and easy going first grader you will ever meet. Read the full story...

A Challenge to Authority
It came to check his agenda and he had not wrote a single word that morning. Situations like this occurred throughout the day with no real consequences to any of them by the adults. The real issue came as the students were leaving that day and he said to me that “he could do what-ever he wanted because he would never get in trouble for it. Read the full story...

Flexibility: Not According to the Plan
The students were going to have to learn both how to count money and how to make change with money. My supervising teacher explained to me that money should be review for them so it shouldn't be too hard. He could not have been more wrong. My first lesson went well and they seemed to fully grasp how to count money, however my second lesson on making change was a disaster. Read the full story...