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bride04 Posted:

Re: Student teaching while Working?

i wasn't able to work. but, i also was taking 3 or 4 classes at the same time. if you're only student teaching and aren't taking any classes it probably wouldn't be too bad. i actually was waitressing a few nights a week in the beginning, but that only lasted about 2 or 3 weeks before i quit because it was just too much for me. i do know some people who were able to work part time, but for me I couldn't do it. I was also still living at home at the time so I was able to get by for a few months without working. good luck!

palebride Posted:

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i was not able to work, so I started saving waaaay in advance before student teaching started.
some people are able to work nights while doing it....but i found i was too busy planning lessons and grading to do anything.
I was also living at home while student teaching - which helped a lot!
cjb88 Posted:

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While student teaching, i was taking 3 or 4 classes, had a part time job on nights and weekends and I was also doing freelance graphic design... it was tough but i got through!

Ronkonkomonga Posted:

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Posted by cjb88

While student teaching, i was taking 3 or 4 classes, had a part time job on nights and weekends and I was also doing freelance graphic design... it was tough but i got through!



Yeah - I think it depends on the person - I know a few people who did it fine ... others preferred to focus on the student teaching
palebride Posted:

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Posted by jenny2penny

that's my fear!

And when I hear about all the lesson plans I am concerned. but, with physical education I doubt there will be much grading though


I had a ton of grading...but I teach English - I tink you shoudl be able to handle a part-time job without all of that on your back .
And as for lesson planning - if you have a good cooperative teacher, you can wok on them together
jozieb0925 Posted:

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I am quiting my full time (current) job at the end of august and start student teaching in sept. I don't have any plans to work until I see how the workload is...

I would like to find something part-time if possible..

I've never been out of work and the thought of no income (on my end) really stresses me out..
july06bride Posted:

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Posted by jenny2penny

Were you able to work while student teaching?

If so how many hours/type of job?


i wasnt able to work, i was taking classes, working, and planning lessons...way too much to work
cjb88 Posted:

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it really all comes down to the subject you teach... i am art... so i would work hard on a lesson plan, introduce it, then the kids have a few weeks to work on it, so i really dont have much take home work for a week or so... where as FH is math, so he was home everyday after school coming up with lessons for the next day...

kdelace Posted:

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i bartended. great money and it was onthe weekends. Student teaching is a full time thing... I wa sin the classroom all day but doing work/lessons throughout the rest of the day into the night.

CC59 Posted:

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I worked part time...I think it was like 20 hours a week or so and it was fine. I student taught in a middle school and a kindergarten class.

cocoa Posted:

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Posted by bride04

i wasn't able to work. but, i also was taking 3 or 4 classes at the same time. if you're only student teaching and aren't taking any classes it probably wouldn't be too bad. i actually was waitressing a few nights a week in the beginning, but that only lasted about 2 or 3 weeks before i quit because it was just too much for me. i do know some people who were able to work part time, but for me I couldn't do it. I was also still living at home at the time so I was able to get by for a few months without working. good luck!


this was me too! i, like palebride, starting saving early too, so i could afford x-mas gifts and insurance and phone, etc. it wasn't too bad but it was exhausting trying to do it all.
August2004 Posted:

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I did not work while I was student teaching. I got my master's in secondary ed math, so I did do a bunch of tutoring during that time but there would have been no way I would have been able to work another job while student teaching. It was tight money wise, but well worth it.

MissMelissa Posted:

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i have too, i will go to work as soon as i get out of student teaching until god knows what time to keep my full time schedule

katieshope Posted:

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I worked on the weekends and holiday's when I was student teaching. Let me tell you, it was not fun!! By the end of the semester I was SO burnt out!! But if you need the money, you have to do what you have to do!!

Shorty McBride Posted:

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my FH was unable to work - the district he was student teaching in requires LONG lesson plans for every day. They were about 3-4 pages a night! He'd commute an hour there, work til 4, get home at 5:30, write his 3-4 pages, eat dinner, then crash, only to be up at 5:30am the next morning.

He thought student teaching was harder than REAL teaching!
jozieb0925 Posted:

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Posted by Shorty McBride

my FH was unable to work - the district he was student teaching in requires LONG lesson plans for every day. They were about 3-4 pages a night! He'd commute an hour there, work til 4, get home at 5:30, write his 3-4 pages, eat dinner, then crash, only to be up at 5:30am the next morning.

He thought student teaching was harder than REAL teaching!


Your dh's schedule sounds like it's going to be mine..I heard the district I am STing is really good, but I can only imagine the requirements they have. Also, it's an HOUR away from me..ughhh

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