I am starting student teaching in two weeks and will be at an elementary school. After that, I will be certified to teach in an elementary school. Before this, I have worked in an elementary school part-time for a year and a half. I am extremely nervous about getting sick or others getting sick around me. I am so terrified that it will happen to me or that a child will be sick. I don't know what to do or how to handle it. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to prevent getting the stomach bug as a teacher or how to deal with sick children? I love teaching so much but I am afraid that I can't do this and I have no idea how to cope with this. I am in counseling and we talk about this quite a bit but my counselor doesn't seem to have a lot of suggestions. I really need to figure out how to prevent myself from being sick and how to handle kids being sick in the classroom. Any advice would be very helpful, especially from fellow teachers who are emetephobics as well.
Thanks!
Ashley