Joining an education program is tough. Being an XL T-shirt wearing college kid one day and blazer with matching flats wearing teacher the next can get tricky. Through all of the ups and downs, just think of little things that you will remember when you look back. Oh, and learning theories...always remember learning theories.
- Spending your summer buying teacher clothes
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- Finally being around people who love school supply as much as you do
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- Picking your cohort name...and getting it approved
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- Having to get used to taking 19, yes 19, credit hours
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- Your friends thinking you could actually go out on a Weekday
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- Or skip class
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- Getting lost in a class because it isn't in your subject concentration
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- English being a mandatory concentration
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- Your teachers reminding you that you want to be a teacher, so you should accept being graded harder
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- Trying to understand common core
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- Livetext.
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- Finally getting your name tag.
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- Your groupme blowing up when your mentor leader made surprise visits at placement
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- Selling your soul to writing lesson plans
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- The carpool playlist
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- The dependence you had on your host teachers
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- The student that tested your sanity
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- Getting hit on by your students
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- Being an adult in the room during student-parent-teacher conferences
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- Acting like you didt have the same taste in music as your students
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- Or that the bold things they say weren't hilarious
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- Always coming home from placement with drawings and gifts
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- Feeling "embarrassed" (read: totally proud) when your friends saw you in your teacher clothes
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- Wondering how your mentor leader put up with your cohort
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- The daily reminder that when you were down and full of stress, you had a family of 20 ready to pick you up and wipe away your tears...because they were stuck in the middle with you.
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