Student teaching...Feeling disappointed...a rant.

Your experience is very similar to mine. I butted heads with my mentor teacher while student teaching grade 8 English I Honors. She was very arm's-length with students, I put a lot of myself and my personality into my lessons. She's decidedly Type-A, and I'm...not. She also constantly compared me unfavorably to a student teacher she'd had in a previous year and loved. And, finally, I was a career changer, so when people asked me about my previous work/life/educational experience, I told them about the things I'd done, including my MBA (a degree that was useless for everything except being Master's-plus-30 right out of the gate, and about which I was always either matter-of-fact or self-deprecating). However, that chattiness and honesty got me labelled on that eighth-grade hall as "arrogant". THEN, after I was finished and started looking for jobs, I found out via my university mentor that she'd thrown me under the bus in her professional recommendation to the point where I had to delete it from my state profile because it was holding me back from employment.

All that said, I'm now in my third year, my current and previous two admins love the work I do, I can fully command my classroom at all times (important in an Alternative School), I plan and carry out fun lessons in my own style, and I get the satisfaction of seeing her every month at middle-school ELA department chair meetings (since I fill that role at my school).

So, don't actively piss her off, tell your university advisors and have them handle it, and just keep practicing. Also, I'd say this is a good time to start learning to document everything. Play CYA. It sucks, but sometimes it's necessary. If you have anything in writing where this teacher told you to use her stuff, dig that up and tell your uni advisors about it.

TL;DR: went through similar. You'll be fine the same way I am and wonder why you ever stressed as much about it as you did.

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