Girls next year have 2 different teachers for the one class

RachelS

My friend's child was in this situation for this school year (suppose she still is for a couple of weeks). My friend is really happy with how it's turned out, she says the two teachers complement each other really well and it seems to stop her daughter getting bored. I think it will depend how well they work together.

mishkanorman

We've had 2 teachers doing job share this year, no problems to report at all, when they mixed the year groups up THAT was a total disaster !!

looby75

this year ds has had 3 teachers and he really seems to enjoy it, he's in year 5 and the reason they have 3 teacher is because each teacher has a specialist area so they get a bit more of a high school kind of teaching.

It's the first year they've tried this and the results seem to be good. He has had 2 teachers in the past with no problems too.

shy-but-need-help

Our 2nd littlest is about to start reception in a class with two teachers, fortunately we know them both and he's quite happy with it. Like Curlywurli mentions, I think it generally works fine for the children (very few will be in a classroom where they are taught constantly by just one teacher with PPA time now) it's more of a headache for the teachers themselves if they get the downfall of being paired with someone who isn't as efficient/skilled teacher as they themselves are.

msb5262

Hello OP,
I've been a job sharing teacher in the past and in my opinion/experience, it really benefits the children; they get a fresh, rested teacher twice a week instead of only once!
Also as others have said upthread, teachers can play to their own strengths and special talents when sharing out subject areas, which is obviously beneficial to the children.
I feel that schools who pay one teacher for 2 days and one for 3 days actually get much more than 5 days of work done, because most teachers use a lot of their own time for planning, organising resources etc so it's to the school's advantage as well. The school gets amazing value for 1 teacher's salary.
I always worked very hard when job sharing to communicate effectively with my colleagues and if anything, I felt a bit that I was doing a lot of work for not much pay...so perhaps not much to recommend it from the teacher's point of view apart from those wanting part-time for family reasons.
The only potential difficulty arises if you have a teacher who isn't very good - in which case, you can be grateful that this isn't the only teacher in your child's class! Equally if your child has a personality clash with one teacher, they are only together for half the week so it's not so serious.
Believe me, sharing a class between two teachers is almost always very successful...and if it weren't, schools would have found a way to stop it happening.
Hope that helps.
MsB

elisebutt65

Don't forget, when they move on up to 2dry school they will have a different teacher+ a tutor for each subject! Better they get broken in gently to the idea of more than 1 teacher now, rather than hit with it in year 7.

We used to team teach at my college; up to 3 of us per subject, but it got too confusing for us & the students, so now we each teach our own units, but there are still 3 of us per team.

looby75

elisebutt65 wrote: »

Don't forget, when they move on up to 2dry school they will have a different teacher+ a tutor for each subject! Better they get broken in gently to the idea of more than 1 teacher now, rather than hit with it in year 7.

I think thats one of the reasons ds's school introduced the 3 teacher thing for years 5 and 6, as a way of easing them into the high school way of teaching.

It was just a trial for 6 months but they have decided to carry it on next year too.

too_much_debt

This year one of the Year 2 classes has two teachers, I'm not sure how they have found it as their class has been in a different building to the other Year 2 classes (my daughter is also in Year 2).

I found out today that my other daughter will have the same teacher next year which I am glad about as she is the perfect teacher for my daughter and really lovely, they have also mixed up the classes for the current Year 1, Year 3 and Year 5 which I'm not sure why but this means my daughter will also have some children from the other two Year 1 classes next year.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

DD had it in primary school - one worked 3 days, the other worked two.

No problems whatsoever. No stressed teacher wishing she could be with her baby and packing in her job after a term, no teacher undergoing lengthy medical treatment exhausted by working a full week, so going on permanent sick, no constant stream of supplies/overworked TAs.

It'll be fine.


And this year coming in secondary school, one of the classes will have two members of teaching staff in the class at any one time - the teacher and her Assistance Dog.

There are worse things to happen at school than keeping two motivated teachers on when they could have left the profession altogether.

suekjw

We had this with both my son and daughter. I found it quite a positive thing as both teachers were keen and didn't suffer from any midweek (or midterm) fatigue.