Ace Your Student Teaching Semester

About this course

Congratulations! You made it to student teaching. Finally, getting to the student teaching portion of your coursework can be a fun and exciting time. But, for some students, it can also be scary! Many fears may surface when it's time to embark on your student teaching experience. Worries about what you'll be asked to teach, fears surrounding how to successfully communicate with your mentor teacher, or how fears concerning how to deal with challenging students? You are not alone in your fears, and to be honest, they are all common before students start student teaching. But this course will show you that student teaching doesn't have to be so scary. This course is designed to gently guide you through the process and remove the anxiety and mystery out of student teaching so that you will know exactly what to expect before you ever step foot into the classroom.In this course, you will learn the three goals of student teaching as well as the four KEY areas of student teaching success. You will also learn how to manage your anxiety and prepare for the dreaded student teaching demonstrations and observations. This course contains engaging video and audio lectures, all aimed at ensuring that you know what you need to know before your first day of student teaching. If you are about to enter your student teaching semester, this course will get you ready so that you CAN and WILL have a successful student teaching semester. Once you know what to expect, FEAR becomes a thing of the past. Happy student teaching!