Education has changed, and as some of us get older, it's easy to look at the new crop of teachers entering the profession as unprepared. We believe that many of them walk in blindly unaware of how hard it will really be to engage every child in the classroom, but because ignorance is bliss, most are highly excited to make a difference "in just one child's life."

I realize that sounds a little sarcastic, but we have all been there. Finished with our college courses and the 90 hours of observation time, we enter into a student teaching experience where we will spend anywhere from 8 to 16 weeks with a cooperating teacher.

That experience can be a crapshoot.

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