During my junior year as a Robotics and Psychology undergraduate at WPI, I took on my Student Teaching Practicum as my Interactive Qualifying Project (IQP). 

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I had the experience of teaching in multiple schools with a wide range of diversity. There were classes I taught where I had prior experience in the content, and alternatively, content where I would not have known the first vocabulary word's definition before this experience. I learned what the meaning of school culture is. For every technique I learned that worked, I learned twice as many to not try again.

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Many factors influenced my ability to perform at a proficient level on the Candidate Assessment of Performance (CAP) rubric. I had to change school placements at the beginning of the practicum, and towards the end of the practicum, I struggled with preparation and completion of lessons, assignments, and grades.

I was ultimately deemed as "Not Yet Ready to Teach"

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But humans learn best from our mistakes.

For all the times I struggled during the practicum, a significant amount of personal growth occurred in organization skills, interpersonal relations, and what it means to be a teacher.