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Do children suffer from two teachers jobsharing their class?

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emkana · 14/07/2006 10:56

Because that's the situation dd1 will be in next year.
I'm a bit about it, does anybody have any experiences?

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firestorm · 14/07/2006 19:50

i agree that as long as communication is good between the two teachers & their teaching style & methods are similar it should work.
unfortunately for my poor dd in reception this wasnt the case their methods were wildly different & they had no communication whatsoever. they each left things for the other to do, so they never got done. the only thing they had in common was the fact that they were both nasty grade A BITCHES hugely unsuited to teaching sensitive reception babies. my dd was a nervous wreck with ocd tendencies by the end of the year.
on the flip side dd2 has had numerous teachers during her reception year. not officially a jobshare, but new regulations thing where teachers spend so much time away from the class. (dds teacher was sometimes hardly ever there) & her reception year has been fantastic (different school to where dd1 was in reception) the difference being that everyone who taught her was nice, caring & took an interest.
i hope your dds experience is the same as dd2s. have you actually met either of the teachers yet, or spoken to other parents about what theyre like? you should have an idea what theyre like very quickly & hopefully put your mind at rest.

popsycal · 14/07/2006 19:50

I will be jobsharing in spetember.....
it depends on the staff..

Littlefish · 28/07/2006 16:21

Definitely depends on the teachers. I have been one of a job-sharing pair and really didn't enjoy it. However, I'm absolutely certain that given a different working partner, it could have been an extrememly positive and effective experience for the children.

katierocket · 28/07/2006 16:32

Depends on the teachers. DS's primary has 2 classes per year. One of the reception years is taught by job share and reception has just received outstanding in Ofsted report so it can work brilliantly.

prettybird · 28/07/2006 16:59

Ds had this for his first year in Primary School (called Primary 1 in Scoltand). It worked really well: the two teachers overlapped on a Wednesday and communicated really well. Parents evenings were done jointly, and if there ever any problems, they worked together to try to resolve them.

One concentrated on numbers and the other on reading - and then half way through the year, they swapped around, so if any kids didn't get on with one of the teachers and better with the other, then they could get maximum benefit.

One of the teachers seemed tougher than the other, and we though ds didn't like her so much - but interestingly, he chose the "better" present to give to her at the end of the year (vases: the only difference was the colour- but ds chose his favourite colour to give to her).

One negative of job shares: two presents to get at the end of the year!

Inerestingly, the two teachers are the only two "senior" teachers in the school and form part of the management team of the school - along with the head teacher and the depute.

mousiemousie · 28/07/2006 17:15

I think jobshare is great - 2 different personalities of teacher in case your child doesn't much like one of them

And more energy from the teachers!

Mercy · 28/07/2006 17:21

dd will be having 2 teachers next year as well, she will be in year1. One of them is the deputy head who has years of experience as does the TA. Have no idea who the other teacher will be but so far I've no concerns.

spidermama · 28/07/2006 17:28

DS2 (6) had this for year one. He didn't like it. I think it's unsettling. So I was pretty pissed off to discover he was going to get two teachers again for year 2.

Both of his year one teachers were perfectly acceptable, but I still think it disruprtive and bad practice.

juuule · 28/07/2006 18:35

Didn't work for my dd in reception. She was very unsettled by it. It wasn't just shared by the same 2 teachers so that might have made a difference. She had one class teacher who seemed to be out of the classroom quite frequently for one thing or another and the class was taken by different supply teachers or HLTA.

Blondilocks · 28/07/2006 18:50

This year my LO had 3 teachers - her head teacher, her normal class teacher and then a third one afternoon a week.

She didn't have any problems with it & liked the different lessons the teachers did with her. They all had different skills so IMO it wasn't a bad thing.

MaloryClassyTowers · 28/07/2006 18:56

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nikkie · 28/07/2006 19:07

As long as they communicate it is fine.Dd1 had tgis in Yr R and the teaching was fine but letters etc always came home after the other classes (at a schookl where you don't get a lot of notice for things anyway) and reading books weren't changed as often etc
DD2 is going into reception in Sept and will have 2 1/2 teachers (combining 40 reception kids and 20am and 20 pm nursery) over the week so not sure how this will pan out!

throckenholt · 28/07/2006 19:17

DS1 had it this year (reception) - he didn't seem to suffer. The teachers did communicate a lot though.

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