Must be a building thing. I will introduce my student teachers as just that,
student teachers..If I were to introduce him/her as a librarian who is
visiting I would not be honest. The students would quickly determine that
this person was a student librarian/teacher and I would lose credibility.
In this school - everyone is seen hopefully as Christ - and no teacher,
student teacher, staff, etc. would ever be treated as less than a wonderful
person who is contributing to the overall environment of our family. My
students already know that the student teacher is arriving next month and
they have expressed interest in meeting her and working with her. To
identify her as a librarian would be less than truthful.
Allan
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter G. Mohn, LMS" <pmohn2001@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] ELEM: Have you had a student teacher?
> Dear LM_Net,
>
> I would like to add my two-cents on this topic. Don't ever introduce your
> student teacher as a "student teacher" to staff, parents or students.
This
> only devalues the person in the eyes of students, parents and staff as
> someone who isn't a professional. Introduce your student teacher as Miss,
> Mrs. or Mr. ____________ (fill in the blank), they're a visiting librarian
> who will be working with you this term.
>
> Even though students will figure out they are new to the job, they usually
> will treat the new librarian with as much respect as you give them and
with
> respect they earn from the students. Teachers will end up treating them
as
> colleagues instead of someone less then a professional.
>
> We just finished having two student teachers in our building, one in math
> and one English/Resource English. Our math teacher treated her student
> teacher as a colleague with students and staff. This made it a lot easier
> on this young professional and she shined in the classroom. Our District
> hired her as a mid-year hire. The other young professional wasn't as
lucky
> with their mentor teachers and had a tougher time in some of their
dealings
> with classes and students. He'll probably find a job soon because he's a
> good teacher, but our District may have missed out on hiring him as a
> mid-year replacement because he had less support from his two classroom
> mentor teachers.
>
>
> --
> Peter G. Mohn, LMS
> Snohomish Freshman Campus
> Snohomish, WA
> pmohn2001@earthlink.net
>
> "You live and learn. Or you don't live long." -- Heinlein
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