Student Teaching Interviews

(Don't mind my severely unplucked brows. Tweezers M.I.A.) 

Wednesday was Student Teaching Interviews, and I'm just barely recovering today. 

At BYU-I, you are not guaranteed a student teaching position. Instead, you sign up for interviews at the butt-crack of dawn for all of the schools that BYU-I is affiliated with. You can only student teach with affiliated schools. Then, you wait and prepare, and wait some more until Student Teaching Interview Day arrives. 

Then, on Student Teaching Interview Day, you have a million interviews in 20 minute intervals. Your interviews are with 4 other girls, all vying for a spot as well. You're asked maybe 3 questions the entire interview and then you are sent on your way, thanked for your time. 

It's an extremely nerve-wrecking process, especially if you aren't a confident interviewee. 

My interviews went well, I think. I won't know the results until Monday. My first interview was with the hardest interviewing school. The very first question they asked me was, "In 30 seconds, what is your educational philosophy?" The most vague question of all time was how I started out the day. 

And you know when you are speaking but you just have no control over what is coming out of your mouth? That was pretty much how I felt. I was just speaking out of my pie hole. 

I loved my interviews with Discovery and Madison Middle, though. I really hope that I get an offer from either of these schools. If not, I'm going to be pretty heartbroken. I loved Madison Middle - and their student teaching process is really amazing, but I'm not positive about how that interview went. It was with an adult woman, who constantly said, while pointing to each of us, "I look at these younger girls, and they have no idea what they are doing. They just don't know until they've actually been in a school." Apparently she had been a para for 20 years and decided to get her teaching certificate. That was frustrating, but I guess when you are wanting one of four spots, anything goes. I only wish I had known that earlier. 

After the interviews, I napped for an eternity and then went to yoga on campus. My sister-in-law called and asked if we wanted to go. I thought it was going to be just a regular yoga class. Nope. Definitely not. It was a yoga class that specifically focused on doing headstands. That was definitely a rude awakening and my bum is definitely feeling it today. 

I'll update you on Monday how everything went with offers! I'm hoping that out of the 6 interviews, I at least get 2-3!