The elemchatarchive has some great resources for preservice teachers (like myself) from the April 14th 2012 chat 'Advice you wish you'd been given as a pre-service teacher.'
http://elemchatarchive.wikispaces.com/2012.04.14+Resources
A transcript of the twitter feed can also be located at
http://elemchatarchive.wikispaces.com/2012.04.14+Advice+for+Pre-Service+Teachers
Thanks to all the contributors for helping us preservice teachers out!
I have a good piece of advice for preservice teachers...when you get your first job, and you are assigned a "mentor", instead of them turing you into them by telling you all the things they do that you should do, turn them into you. Show them all the new things that you learnt in university that weren't done back when they went to university, (possibly a long time ago).
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Thanks for responding to the post Alfie! I have heard some similar observations to this but am yet to view such occurrences myself. Luckily the Schools I am currently involved with provide a range of mentors (young, old and in between) all of them are open to new ideas and have experience which can be a great benefit to beginning teachers.
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