Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2006-08-13 21:33
Hi Laurie,
There are several things you need to do while you are treading water.
Get a really good writing tutor who will insist that you are careful with grammar and spelling. If you plan to be a teacher, that is the most important skill you can have. If I'm stepping on your toes, so be it. As an old college teacher, I would not accept written work from you in this state.
Secondly, quit your bellyaching. If you truly want to teach, then suck it up and play the game. It will be the best preparation for life you'll ever get. The only sure thing you'll ever find in the world is attitude - deal with it. Even if you are retaking classes, use that experience to really nail the subject matter and look for every new insight you can. No one teaches the same class or material the same way.
Thirdly, pick your student teaching school very carefully. When I was in junior and senior high school, we were the guinea pigs for so many student teachers that we devised all sorts of torture to get revenge on the school for subjecting us to student teachers and deprivng us of our real teachers. A couple of years, we had 3 student teachers for band. Our favorite prank was to demand to play the Poet and Peasant Overture, which we proceded to butcher. Several of the teachers discovered that they preferred a different occupation -- one of them being my cousin. Multiply this by 5 or 6 academic classes, and it's a wonder we ever learned anything. TALK ABOUT BURN OUT - You ain't seen nothin' honey.
Fourth, good luck and knock 'em dead. It's only music -- not life, death, Iraq, Lebanon or Darfur.
Best,
Mary Vinquist
Post Edited (2006-08-13 22:38)
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