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During my student teaching time in the certification course, I was placed with a "mentor" teacher my 3rd semester into the program (spring of 2015). This "mentor" was absolutely horrible to me. She ended up going behind my back to complain to the principal of her school, my field placement supervisor and the university. NOT ONCE did she EVER come to me about any issues she had. I would submit my lesson plan and the only comment she gave me was "Looks good." So I had a meeting with the the people running the program and was told I should have been able to "read between the lines" of the "mentor teacher's comments. I was removed from the placement and was made to look like an incompetent fool, when I know I am not. Now, this ended up working out because I was then placed in a REAL mentor teacher's classroom for the 14-15 school year. This magnificent teacher not only taught her class, but taught me as well and stated at the end of the school year I would be a wonderful teacher and I was the best student teacher she ever had. Also through out the program, there were many classes (classroom management, specifically) where we created freaking PINTEREST BOARDS. This truly was a hindrance when I became a first year teacher. So many of the classes were not based on real classroom scenarios, but created to make it easy for our teacher when we were in class. There was so much the program did not do to help us as beginning teachers AT ALL!!! So many of us in the cohort kept in touch and we were all complaining how the program did not actually prepare us for the real world of teaching.