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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My year long student teaching program was the most grueling year of my life. I had to submit detailed lesson plans for every single word that came out of my mouth in a 7 hr day one week in advance. I even had to submit lesson plans for weekly spelling tests. After school I had to attend 3+ hrs of grad classes at night. Weekends were spent writing the lesson plans and finding/making materials (pre-internet). While it wasn’t cognitively challenging work, it was exhausting nonetheless. All of it was unpaid and I had to work PT to help pay expenses (plus my student loan had to be repaid after I graduated). 
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Which college required such intensive student teaching?[/quote]

That's actually a pretty standard student teaching experience. And the lesson plans are extremely detailed and involved, more so than you'll see anywhere else in education. They typically involve correlated standards, differentiation for a minimum of three levels of ability and three different learning styles, vocabulary, assessment formal or informal, and rationalization or support from cited sources as to why your lesson is best practices, and how your lesson is interdisciplinary with relevant standards also listed. Then a follow up reflection afterwards with work samples. This is per lesson. At the elementary level, for one day of student teaching, you needed such lesson plans for math, reading, writing, social studies, and science. I did have internet during my student teaching, and it was an exhausting level of work to be done before and after a full day of actually teaching. [/quote]

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