The purpose of this study was to explore teaching performance of 11 elementary intern teachers. Hermeneutic phenomenological analysis and in-depth interviews were the methods employed to discover the nature of participants’ experiences and their associated hidden meanings. The researcher observed each participant’s teaching performance and conducted a follow-up interview afterwards with each teacher. Thematic analysis was used to identify the themes within participants’ teaching experiences. The primary themes and meanings which emerged from this study include: (1) constant reflection and revision of participants’ script construction, (2) struggling with the uncertainties and pressures before teaching performance, (3) co-playing the perfect performance by intern teachers and students, and (4) learning by testing pressure to improve their teaching abilities before becoming qualified teachers. The meanings of the intern teachers’ interpretive experience implied that: (1) challenges encourage the cultivation of self-development, (2) pressure was the motive for growth, (3) participants struggled with a false allusion in the perfect performance, (4)the critique of their teaching weakness was regarded as a superior reward. The implications from this research study for school administrators are many including the reinforcement for teacher mentoring and by, providing an increase of pressure to challenge teacher trainers development, establish correct educational values and criteria of supervision, and implement a developmental teaching assistance program to improve overall teaching.