School starts soon!

Teacher inservices start on the 1st, and then it is time for students to come on the 8th!  It's exciting, and I am officially getting nervous!  I'm used to going into a classroom and spending time teaching, and with the teachers/students, but I have never had this much of a responsibility before.  I'm really excited to teach, and super pumped to be in the classroom.  I'm excited for this experience, and can't wait til I can experience it as a teacher, rather than just a student.

What I don't understand though, is why student teaching has to be an unpaid experience.  Not even just an unpaid experience, but an experience where you have to pay for your 12 college credits, and you are basically asked to NOT hold a job at all while student teaching.  The thing with the paying the college for the credits, I think maybe what we are paying should be going to the schools who are willing to host us... or maybe go to giving us some options.  Basically you are asked to student teach in a district where you must drive at least a half an hour, pay rent, have food, etc.  Yet we are asked in a tone that says if you have a job, your going to mess up student teaching, your not going to make it a priority, and your going to fail.  Sorry to inform you, but I have to work.  I have no one who is going to pay 100% of my bills.  I have someone who will help me with communal bills, but I still have my own bills that I have to worry about.  Anyways I believe that is enough of me ranting on that subject!

One last quick note before I take off--- I passed my tests, that basically determined whether or not I was going to be able to become a teacher (my praxis 2).  Now all I really have to do is pass student teaching, apply for my license (in the meantime get my subbing license), and then find a job.  I'm so glad I took those two tests this summer, because I KNOW that there is absolutely NO way that I would be able to study for those, student teach, and work.  Wow!  Thank goodness I passed!

Excited to student teach, proud that I passed, and getting Nervous!
-Miss A.