an you turn out a well-done teacher without getting burned out yourself? Every student teaching experience brings a different set of problems to solve. The ingredients look the same-you, the student teacher, and a classful of students-but on closer inspection, you find that each ingredient can vary. Student teachers and cooperating teachers come in assorted strengths and flavors. When they mix with a classroom of kids, an exciting new concoction-or a half-baked dish-may result. Many kinds of student teachers may cross the threshold of your classroom, requiring different working relationships. Some will take to teaching like a vis-a-vis pen to an overhead transparency, while others will struggle to make the simplest mark. You wait nervously, hoping your student teacher will be a good one, when you may need to build a good one out of the immature or shy or impractical or happy-go-lucky college senior who is assigned to you. What follows is inside information on nine types of student teachers who have entered classrooms and survived, thanks to their cooperating teachers. You have known some of them-and you may encounter others in the future. Would they succeed in your classroom? Let's start with the Parrot. This student teacher wants to know exactly how you do it. The Parrot copies everything you do-even your mannerisms. Sometimes a teacher who has a Parrot will vow never to use a certain expression or gesture again after having observed the Parrot in action. The Parrot follows your instructions well but always has to be told what to do. The Clone is similar to the Parrot, except that the Clone does not ask you how to do it. The Clone watches closely, does what you do, and does it very well. She fools you into thinking she is a pro and does not need any help from you. The Clone never becomes herself in the classroom and never tries her own ideas. Often she