This was linked in a somewhat non-obvious place, but there are hiragana and katakana handwriting practice sheets available here for download:
http://tonysensei.com/groups/learning-resources/pages/hiragana-practice-...
http://tonysensei.com/groups/learning-resources/pages/katakana-practice-...
You would do well to try to learn to write like this person does, not your clumsy Japanese teacher!

