We have been teaching our units for three days now and after all the work we put into them, it would feel good to get feedback on our lessons. While my partner and I teach, our cooperating teacher sits at her desk and writes emails and has no idea what is going on in the lessons. It would be nice if she told us that it was a really great lesson or even provided us with constructive criticism. The students seem to be enjoying the unit, and that is what keeps me motivated to put a lot of effort into teaching the lessons.
The students will learn the content of the unit solely through the lessons that my partner and I created, and the cooperating teacher does not listen to hear if the correct information is being given. She does not seem to care if the students understand the information, nor does she look over any of the work that the students complete.
It seems as though she wants student teachers in her room so that we can do the work for her. We stay with the class for the whole day, but we do not learn anything from her teaching. We maybe saw one or two actual lessons taught to the class throughout our whole experience. It is really discouraging to see teaching like this, and from this semester I have learned the type of teacher I do not want to become.
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Do not let you cooperating teacher discourage you from your teaching experience. It seems that you have not, but like you have said, take his/her actions as a learning experience of how not to be a teacher. During the two full time weeks, everyone will continue to grow as teachers and leaders, so take advantage of any feedback you can gain from the students responses or any feedback from other teachers. And if something was terribly wrong, I do not think you would have made it this far, so continue doing a great job.
~Dan Wolthoff
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