Lee Elementary School in West Lawn is another. At other schools I've worked at, teachers are always gossiping, and the stress level is high. Here at Lee, everybody seems to like their job. My cooperating teacher has been so generous with teaching magazines and supplies. It's just been great.
Student teachers stress the importance of their cooperating teachers, the ones with whom they teach.
My mentor teacher had only two years of experience as a teacher. That's not enough time for me to get any meaningful ideas and information about what it's like to be a teacher. As a result, not all of us get placed with good mentor teachers. At Lee School, Principal Marjorie Joy does the selecting, looking for teachers with at least three to five years of experience. For her efforts, Joy has been rewarded with student teachers who want to work at Lee after they graduate.