One of the worst things I find about this course is that lonely feeling that you get late at night when you are preparing lessons and you have no one to help. Your coursemates are busy on their own plans, they might give you a pointer or 2 but even if they have taught the subject, their help is limited.
At our school there are some PGCE subjects that take student teachers in pairs. I think that could be a really good way of doing things. You get more feedback, you’ve got someone to talk things through with. Like, “do you think that they will manage this worksheet?”
Of course if you end up hating each other it could be a bind, but that goes for the student-mentor realationship too.
