Suggestions from Last Year’s Interns:
· Make time for yourself
· Take your personal days and done stress about the little things. You don’t have to be best friends with your MT but enjoy your time
· Sleep before you begin the year
· Make time for yourself
· Start your portfolio now! Get all the resources you can!
· Get your work done for school on time
· Get a planner and be organized!
· Breath, relax, rely on your mentors, smile, and have fun!
· Be organized and open; communicate your needs and concerns
· Relax!
· Get involved
· Jump right into teaching
· Get as many resources as possible
· Stay on top of your projects
· Website through MSU to host resumes!
· Enjoy every minute!
· Ask questions!
· Ask questions!
· Eat with students/Be involved!
· Have fun and relax
· Treat every day as an interview and you will get through it
· Organize and communicate frequently with MT
· Stay organized and use technology
· Nap whenever you can!
· Stay on top of assignments as they come in
· Hand things in on time, be polite to everyone, lesson plan in advance, jump on small misbehaviors immediately
· Save money, sleep, and communicate openly with everyone in their school and at MSU
· Understand that the interns have lives and you need to time manage
· Be sure to manage you time wisely. There is time for fun
· Relax and have fun! It’s going to be an amazing, tough, and rewarding year! You will be okay!
· Start portfolio early!
· Keep everything! Keep all worksheets, PD materials, etc. so you can develop a very thorough portfolio
· Stay positive!
· Go and observe other classrooms at different levels. Might lead to a job!
· Work with your peers as much as possible. Keep everything! Stay organized and collect your portfolio throughout the year
· Start with getting to know parents and other staff as a top priority
· Stay organized once you become organized
· Prepared to be wowed!
· Push yourself to be creative and bring in outside resources to lesson plans. Make time to have fun and take care of yourself