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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no creativity in public school. Has she spent any time in schools prior to this? Most education departments have students observing starting in their sophomore year. That gives them time to see what it is really like.[/quote]

You think creativity (or the lack of it) was the problem here?[/quote]

I think she didn't spend any time prior to student teaching observing in a school and that's a problem. If she had, she would have clearly seen that she won't be able to be creative.[/quote]

I’m OP and a teacher. I have room to be creative. Even when I couldn’t write my own curriculum, I could design lessons and most assessments. I don’t know anyone (except the remedial reading teachers) who has a completely canned curriculum with zero room for creativity.

This young lady did observe, but only a certain type of school that she was allowed to handpick. I think she picked what she knew would fit her perception of teaching and desired environment. Middle class suburban HS. I think she had the opportunity to specify a preference of rural, suburban, or urban for placements. No guarantees, but they tried to match. She got suburban. It just happens to be a suburban school with issues more typical of an urban school in a struggling district.

It seems the straw that broke the camel’s back wasn’t actual denial of creativity, but asking her to create something appropriate to the skills and interests of students she has. That’s reasonable in my opinion.

Last night, my friend asked her DD to consider groveling if she can’t be reassigned. Her fiancé seconded this. She said she would consider it, which is encouraging. But first, she wants to hear that reassignment is completely out of the question. Ah, well at 21, the brain isn’t fully developed and worst decisions have been made by student teachers. [/quote]

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