Advantages of working with Student-Teachers

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When it comes to student teaching, you may find yourself in a challenging situation. You can get a cooperating teacher who just does not want to work with a student-teacher. Or perhaps your personalities are at odds. Perhaps you have those pupils that irritate you to no end. 

Teachers are required to fight that first temptation to flee. They must treat teaching candidates with the same diligence and care that they give their own students. Teachers should realize the valuable time they spend with new teachers benefits them as well. 

STRATEGIES TO WORK WITH A STUDENT-TEACHER

  • Student instructors encourage me to examine the components of good instruction more carefully. When you’re assisting a new teacher in developing and delivering courses from the ground up, you’re forced to communicate about core teaching abilities like voice, delivery, tempo, and transitions. This allows them to more clearly articulate their own teaching views, particularly around the value of low-stakes literacy activities like reading discussion diaries, giving students time to read and write in class each day, and giving students ungraded reading and writing tasks.
  • We tend to lose track of what is fashionable as we become older. But, much like my middle school kids, student teachers keep me informed on a variety of topics that help us create rapport, from the Netflix shows they can’t get enough of to the most popular young adult YouTubers to the newest YA fan fiction sites.  Student instructors constantly teach something new that is vital to forming relationships with others.
  • When we are willing to step outside of our comfort zones, we are able to progress. Taking a teaching candidate challenges me to consider fresh ideas and methods to our curriculum, causing me to reconsider the familiar. Encourage student instructors to include the visual arts in teaching. This will help you to come away with fresh ideas for incorporating visual art into your lessons, widening future reading and lesson plans.
  • A pre-service teacher adds a lot of energy to the classroom, and their enthusiasm is contagious, so keep going on with renewed vigor and motivation. You can urge your pre-service teachers to use me for pranks, as a guinea pig, and friendly competition during small group time since a fresh face and voice in the room fosters more engagement and passion among students. Laughter and increased energy are the outcomes of this connection.
  • With trained people in the classroom, you may have more room to experiment with small groups, breakout rooms, tandem teaching, and other active and engaged-learning tactics. In addition, having an extra instructor allows me to be more available for individual conferences or hallway pep speeches.

BENEFITS:

  • Classroom management is a skill that not everyone possesses. Learning how to manage a classroom full of children requires a lot of practice. What are your plans if someone speaks out of turn? What should you do if students are annoying or fighting with one another? It takes a lot of trial and error to discover what works. During student teaching, you may put what you’ve learned from your lecturers and readings into practice. You’ll be able to figure out what works best for you.
  • What are the most popular sorts of lessons among students? What are the most successful teaching methods? Student teaching provides a secure setting in which you may try out new lessons. That way, when it’s time to have your own classroom, you’ll know just what to purchase.
  • Another advantage of student teaching is the opportunity to observe other teaching techniques. Even if you disagree with your cooperating teacher, he or she is likely to have a specific teaching style. Figure out what you like and don’t like about their style as you see it. You get to figure out what type of teacher you want to be during student teaching.
  • You must learn how to work with a variety of people during student teaching. You must spend a significant amount of time with your cooperating instructor. However, you will also have the opportunity to familiarize yourself with your university supervisor, administrators, other teachers, and school staff members. There’s a good chance you won’t get along with everyone. That’s OK. It’s excellent preparation for your future career as a teacher. Then you’ll have to figure out how to work with other instructors, administrators, district workers, parents, students, and other staff members, among other things. Whether you agree with them or not, now is the moment to figure out how to work with them.
  • Although not without problems, there are several advantages to student teaching. When you are preparing notes for class, focus on everything that you can get from the process. Try to gain as much as possible from the opportunity, so you’re better prepared to have your own classroom someday. 
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