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Originally posted by valkyrie
I agree that student teaching is a great idea, but it would be nice if people got paid for it. It's really a full time job that you have to pay to have, which is kind of nuts, I think.
I always thought that most internships were part time, so you could still work a reasonable number of paid hours somewhere if you wanted, without being terribly over-extended.
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I completely agree. I think that having to pay tuition to student teach is insane. Why should I be shelling out $1500 so that my supervising teacher can sit in the back of the room all semester? I pay for my own education through scholarships and working part-time, and I have had to take out my first loan this year (something I was trying desperately to avoid) in order to do my student teaching. At my school, we do 2 internships- this semester is a 3-credit internship that consists of 2 full days a week at a school. Our second internship is full-time student teaching and is 12 credits. It is extremely frowned upon by our advisors and professors to work (even part-time) while you are interning. And anyway, its literally impossible to do so during the full-time internship.