20 Problems Only Student Teachers Will Understand

By Hugh Firth /

5. Leaving All Your Course Essays Until The Last Minute

You vowed you€™d never do this again. The last two weeks of your degree were a mess of musty books, sheets of notes and Wikipedia. Never again. All you had to do was four lesson observations, a reflective essay on a practitioner, evaluation of your teaching and learning, schemes of works, term plans, lesson plans, mini-essays on Differentiation, Equality & Diversity and Health & Safety and an informal diary. What could go wrong?! Well, drinking on school nights didn€™t help. Getting an extension didn€™t help either as now everything is due in on the same day. Also, having the life sucked out of you by being a student teacher didn€™t help either. This is it. Two weeks of lesson observations, essay writing and no sleep. Yep. You€™re definitely still a student.