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Are teaching and learning styles very different between secondary and primary?

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sunsout · 13/06/2014 13:30

just that Grin

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TeenAndTween · 13/06/2014 13:35

Not that I noticed with my DD1.

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ephpa95 · 13/06/2014 14:13

More homework and longer deadlines, so your child will have to learn to work with that. But the schools very gradually ease them in to it all. No worries.

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tiggytape · 15/06/2014 08:16

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BackforGood · 16/06/2014 00:48

Depends a lot of the individual teachers - in secondary they can have a dozen or more teachers over a year - each of them will have their own styles and preferences.
IME secondaries know it's going to be very different experience from Primary school and support the Yr7s very well initially.
Obviously some of the teachers (say music) will only see the dc once a week (or even fortnight) and will teach probably half the school, so they can't have the same close relationship / knowledge of the individual child as their Primary teacher.

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