Pros
I heard that some other resident teachers had good experiences. I liked the summer of intensive grad school classes before we began student teaching. I used those credits to finish my masters in a different program later on.
Cons
I found the method of AUSL to be to gaslight its resident teachers into believing that being kind and caring for their students or attempting to build positive rapport with students was bad. They said that the students needed a strong voice from their teacher often and that talking to students to bond with them in any circumstance outside of instructing a lesson was a disturbance and an issue. They said that if you can’t be hard on them in this way then it’s your problem as a teacher because it is not their fault as a student that you as a teacher feel bad using a “strong voice” often. They said that using a “strong voice” is important to get the class to do what you need them to do and if you feel it’s wrong to do that so often then you aren’t cut out to be a teacher. In every other setting, outside of AUSL, I’ve taught in for 10+ years they have said that building a positive classroom culture and having good rapport with students is the most important part or classroom management; whereas is the AUSL classrooms I was in they told me that a "strong voice," which in similar to yelling, is what’s best all day every day. Some of my students began to hate me and I quit this program due to what they were telling me to do. I joined a different student teaching and had an amazing experience because I got to know my students personally and that rapport is so important to them. I have no idea why AUSL does not want its teachers to bond with the students.