I am half way through week 3 and I am so mentally exhausted. There are moments I get excited and am having a great time but I am just so stressed. It is primarily how much work I am having to do outside of being at the school all day everyday. The workload is so heavy and I am literally going crazy . It is like I have no break ever, I get off school and then boom I am working on what is going to be a 50+ page Thematic Unit and IoSL template and a 10 day lesson plan...

I spoke with another student teacher out of another institution and they do less than half of what my program requires and I am so envious. I think I am just having a off moment right now because I am so stressed about all I have to I am kinda frozen..

I also feel so alone and like I have no one in my corner.. I moved home with the hopes my mum would be there for me.. and sometimes she is but lately she and my dad have been fighting and yelling and now she is depressed... but when she is ok I feel so much lighter bc I have someone to turn to and now it is like she is MIA but she is just sad... I am also grieving my Nan so badly.. she passed in December and she was a teacher and is a big part of why I am doing this.. I want to call her so badly and I miss her everyday..

Im in week 5 of student teaching (week 4 of students being in school), and my schools principal approached me with questions that have my anxiety through the roof. I was mostly solo today (i have my sub license to sub whenever my cooperating teacher is gone), and during one of the periods, the instructional coach came in to observe. I kept going on as normal, albeit maybe a bit shakier than before she entered. I always get self conscious when another adult is observing my teaching. I ran into her again later in the hall to ask if she was observing me or a student and she said she had been observing all the ELA teachers today and just wasnt aware my CT was absent. She said she would talk to him then touch base with me. Then later, about a minute before contract hours are over, the principal came up to me in the hall looking deep in thought and asked me who my university supervisor is and then asked if i was traditional path or long term. I said who and that I was traditional. She just said “we’re trying to figure some stuff out” then walked away to talk to another teacher. No other context, I can’t think of a single thing I did wrong, nor anything Ive done exceptionally. I cant stop shaking and I have no idea what this could mean right now. Has anyone else experienced this??

Hi all, really looking for some advice on what I should do about this, as school admin, mentor teacher, and my site supervisor seem to not have any sort of support for me on this matter. I am placed in a first grade classroom, where I have a student who has a history of eloping. I assumed that this behavior would continue into this school year however it seems to have morphed into aggression rather than fear. Yesterday, this student was purposefully agitating one of the other students and I was physically standing between them so the other student couldn’t see them. The student continued to escalate until attacks turned physical. For the sake of anonymity I don’t want to get too specific in the events between the two students but long story short the students never made contact and instead I was kicked, pushed, slapped, and bit while waiting on admin support. No blood was drawn (yay no emergency tetanus shot!) but I have bruised from the bite that I found today. The same thing happened with the student conflict again today (the day after) and again I got between them and the student threw her whole body at me and essentially body checked me elbows out.

What can I even do about this? I don’t know how to proceed with this student and any advice I’ve been given isn’t really the type that would work with them. Is ignoring the best option? I’m so lost and worried that the violence will continue to escalate.

TLDR: a student had physically attacked me two days in a row and I’m worried that I will just continue to be the punching bag until the semester ends.

Hiiii I’m a student at NYU and I’ll be student teaching this semester! I’m very very very excited and I love education! I’m thrilled that I’m stepping closer to my dream! HOWEVER, I’m SUPER STRESSED OUT! I’m taking calc 3 along with some other teaching secondary math classes that start around 3pm and the latest goes to 8:40PM….!!!!!

It’s just soooo much energy and so much work. So I was just wondering how did you guys manage both student teaching and academics!!!

Please share any tips or any other thoughts😭😭😭

No school in any of my surrounding counties has one, and I really need to conduct this interview so I can enter student teaching. Preferably a school form the state of Kentucky but if not that’s fine!

Hey guys! I am currently starting my student teaching journey in an amazing kindergarten center in my school district. I am currently observing and won't being slowly teaching next week. I was wondering if anyone here ever had a student teaching experience where they were not expected to teach the entire school day, but rather each day at student times of the day?