Monday, November 25, 2013
Though I am a future teacher. I call myself a teacher. I have grown tremendously while being apart of The University of Central Florida's College of Education and Human Performance. I would say that I am excited to get into the field of education, but I AM in the field of education. I have completed A LOT of service learning hours. These hours were not enough until this year. I have trained teacher candidates about the Junior Achievement Program (which is amazing, by the way), tutored my peers, and tutored a first grader. It also helps that I substitute teach as well.
And now the down side. No money, no money, and again, no money. I go into Internship I next semester. This is a two day a week internship that must be taken with three other classes. These three classes are only available in the daytime. So I've got internship Monday and Tuesday, then class mid-day Wednesday, all day Thursday, and thankfully, none on Friday. Now, I work during the day. How will I do this? I cannot work on nights and weekends due to family responsibilities. So tell me, where is this extra money going to come from?
It gets worse!!! As many current teachers know, the last semester at UCF is Internship II. 14 weeks of full time teaching...wait for it.....UNPAID. Now, I know that it would cost an arm and a leg to provide some sort of compensation for teacher candidates, but I wish there was something in place. In other majors, my peers get $2500 or less for interning. I know there must not be money in the budget for this, but still. For non-traditional students like me it would help. The next year will be a financial challenge, but I trust that God will help us meet our bills. He makes the impossible possible.
