What to do when your cooperating teacher wants to transfer you out
A sudden breakdown in trust with a cooperating teacher can lead to threats of removal or being transferred out of your placement. Dealing with a hostile mentor and discovering behind-the-scenes emails from your professor leaves student teachers feeling helpless, unsupported by their university lectures, and stuck hitting a wall every single day.
What people tried
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What to do when your cooperating teacher wants to transfer you out
- 1re-working lesson plans to make original contentDid this help you?
- 2observing in other classroomsDid this help you?
- 3communicating with the university professorDid this help you?
- 4Staying silent in class to avoid conflictDid this help you?
- 5Vent online or to peers about the disconnect between theory and realityDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I would love to hear some advice on my situation because I feel like I’m hitting my head on the wall every single day for the past three weeks.”source ↗
“Today on the start of my week 4 I get an email accidentally CC by my professor talking to my CT about me and the CT’s wishes to transfer me out.”source ↗
“I’m just a bit annoyed because I feel like none of the lectures acknowledge that there are bad schools and teachers.”source ↗
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