It is so discouraging because teachers can't always teach according to the individual student's needs. When asked what has changed in teaching teachers in the past decade, Leavitt answers that technology is the big boom. There is an emphasis on being technologically prepared. Teachers need to be able to use it as a teacher, and use it into the classroom. The culmination of any teacher-education program is student teaching.
Student teaching is where a senior education major is assigned to a mentor in a school district.
Many see student teaching as the most important part of the teacher-education process. I spent every waking hour either at school or working with students, arranging lesson plans and writing or grading tests. For IWU, finding the mentors isn't usually a problem. They do it because of their love and passion for teaching, not for any material reward. Student teaching also allows the student teachers to go into a more diverse setting in which they perhaps weren't already accustomed.