As I was getting my class settled in this morning, in walks a teacher-like person. You all know that I have an educational aide for one of my students, so I looked and thought, "Oh, she's absent today. I guess that's her sub." And then I remembered that she was not absent, I had already seen her that morning. Then who was she? I walked over and introduced myself. I glanced up at her name tag to see TSU under her name.
This is what is seen on the name tags of interns at our school. My portable mate and I had talked about shared an intern. This was the plan because we are both fairly new teachers and figured the intern could learn from both of us and neither of us wanted all of the responsibility. We decided to take on an intern at all because we realize what a great education program we went through and would like to share that with other soon-to-be teachers, because the program that these interns are in isn't quite up to par with what she and I did.
I was still a bit taken aback that I was in charge of an intern. I have been teaching for a whole year and almost two months...wow! It's my turn to offer teaching tips to a teacher wannabe. Believe me, I have no problem sharing what I know and even having others help me learn, but I find it surprising that this program would even consider giving a first year teacher an intern. I know that I will do everything I can to give her chances to learn with my kiddos and hopefully give her a fraction of the quality of internship that I had!
And she seems very nice and ready to offer another set of hands and ears to my kiddos. I'll keep you updated.
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