Thread: Getting Kicked Out of Student Teaching?

Something I notice with the younger teachers is that they want to be friends with their students. The students seem to expect this. I see our two new teachers (first years) in the classroom and playground and the kids are all trying to be friends with them. They tried it with me too. But I didn't fall for it.
One of the new teachers wears clothing I would call inappropriate, but I don't know if that is out of jealousy or not. She has the most fantastic body and wears clothes that show that off... I learnt early on in the piece about clothing. I was almost "kicked out" of a high school I had placement at during training because the skirts I was wearing were too short (just below the knee) It was a polynesian school and because I was in a position of power as a teacher and older than the kids therefore deserving of respect they expected me to wear long skirts to prove that. The senior students also wore long (uniform) skirts, while the junior students wore mid calf skirts, so my skirts just below the knee were like a mini skirt or something.
This teacher also flirts with the students. I don't really know how to bring it up with her. My year 12's hang on for her to come into her own classroom (I teach them in her room) just for a glimpse at her. It is very cute... but she'll flick her hair, bend over just right, laugh and flash her eyelashes... Just not quite right. I can see something going wrong... but not sure how to stop it.

They're about the "worst" teachy things I know of. (Well, apart from the real dodgy stuff)

Something I notice with the younger teachers is that they want to be friends with their students. The students seem to expect this. I see our two new teachers (first years) in the classroom and playground and the kids are all trying to be friends with them. They tried it with me too. But I didn't fall for it.
One of the new teachers wears clothing I would call inappropriate, but I don't know if that is out of jealousy or not. She has the most fantastic body and wears clothes that show that off... I learnt early on in the piece about clothing. I was almost "kicked out" of a high school I had placement at during training because the skirts I was wearing were too short (just below the knee) It was a polynesian school and because I was in a position of power as a teacher and older than the kids therefore deserving of respect they expected me to wear long skirts to prove that. The senior students also wore long (uniform) skirts, while the junior students wore mid calf skirts, so my skirts just below the knee were like a mini skirt or something.
This teacher also flirts with the students. I don't really know how to bring it up with her. My year 12's hang on for her to come into her own classroom (I teach them in her room) just for a glimpse at her. It is very cute... but she'll flick her hair, bend over just right, laugh and flash her eyelashes... Just not quite right. I can see something going wrong... but not sure how to stop it.

They're about the "worst" teachy things I know of. (Well, apart from the real dodgy stuff)

I had to kick my student teacher out this year. I tried and tried to bring her up to par. I told her SPECIFICALLY what she needed to work on. These items ranged from not falling asleep while she was supposed to be observing me, talking a bit faster to keep the pace of the lesson going, spelling content words correctly, actually answering students questions (she would not even acknowledge that a student had asked a question), working all the problems assigned before presenting a lesson... ad nauseum.

The students were having private conferences with me complaining about her. Finally, we had all had enough and I told her supervisor it had to end.

We had three other student teachers in our department at the same time. We hired two of them already for the coming school year.

An ex-girlfriend of mine managed to get herself ejected. She had a decided lack of patience and yanked a student up out of his/her seat by the arm. So, she was pulled out and told to try again later. I don't think she ever did....

A friend of mine did not finish. He and the school realized it was not working. He was way too high strung. He's an ex New York cop who worked homicide scenes because he had no sense of smell. He left the force after realizing he did not feel anything after finding a child who had been dead for several days. Then he became a social worker in bad sections of a couple new england states. You might say his past did not prepare him for patience. If he could have gotten over it he would have made a brilliant teacher .