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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Student teachers are young and clueless and they all fall into the trap of weirding the kids out by trying to be friendly in a peer-like way with them to get the kids to like them. They haven’t yet figured out they’re an adult in the room who is by necessity separate and apart from the kids, so they resort to goody stuff like this thinking it’s “building relationships.” It’s harmless but they really are just figuring out how to work with kids which is why they have a mentor teacher .

-high school teacher [/quote]

Another HS teacher here. This is exactly what’s going on. This young student teacher is trying to make a connection and thinks it’s their inside joke now. They don’t get that it’s become awkward  for your kid.  There is so much more to student teaching than the actual teaching. Tell your DD to ignore. This person is just trying to figuring out relationships with teens, which is a huge part of the job, and is misreading the situation.  They are joking and do not want coffee. [/quote]

Huh?

The STUDENT Teacher needs to learn how to do her job. [/quote]

Yeah…I don’t get it.  Why isn’t the teacher mentor correcting this? [/quote]

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