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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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).

My son’s business internships have been fairly low stress and well paid. He goes out to business meals with colleagues that are all paid for. He doesn’t need a PT job because he is being paid. He has no work outside of his 9-5.

If people want to attract students to teaching, something needs to change. They could start by paying student teachers. [/quote]

I mean, this sounds like my unpaid graduate work.  Except mine was cognitively challenging.  I worked PT to just barely eat.  And it lasted three years.  This wasn't a business degree, though.

I always found the people going straight into business soulless, though.  It wasn't something I aspired to.[/quote]

I thought that was odd, too. Bragging that they had to work hard but that being a student teacher isn't cognitively challenging. I mean, McDonald's employees also work hard at cognitively light jobs.[/quote]

The way I read it, is that all the busy work outside of teaching was the part that isn't that cognitively challenging. And I totally agree. I can lesson plan, grade, browse for materials while watching netflix or sitting on my porch. It is time consuming though, which is what she claimed.[/quote]

I guess I'm not that impressed. I went to grad school while working full time and it was both time consuming AND cognitively challenging.[/quote]

Well yeah, the student teacher is also doing the 'teaching' part during the day, which is certainly cognitively challenging. I don't think anyone is looking for you to be impressed tho, 65 pages into a thread wondering why teachers don't want to do this work anymore.[/quote]

Are you assuming that the rest of us are not working cognitively demanding jobs? GIS modeling is more challenging than teaching social studies or middle school geography.[/quote]

I'm sure it is. I didn't assume any of that. I was answering the PPs question. We got another non teacher TRIGGERED on here though [/quote]

hah hah she said "triggered!" again!

wow you sure gotem[/quote]

I think I did, thank you.[/quote]

teach, shouldn't you be chained to a desk somewhere? i thought you ppl didnt get any breaks ever[/quote]

Left that life now I work less make more and can mess around with you wackos [/quote]

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