Anyone had 2 teachers jobsharing

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Hi, just looking for anyone's experiences of this. DS will start P1 (Scotland) after the summer and today we got class info and he will have 2 teachers.

I have been both the teacher and the parent, and have had positive experiences.

My jobshare colleague and I worked really hard at communicating and providing consistency, we made sure that we used the same rules ans systems etc.

DD1 is in Y1 and the jobshare has come about accidentally rather than being planned (original teacher had to have a lot of time off on compassionate grounds, new teacher took over and when teacher 1 returned, they jobshared). Not sure if it's been mentioned yet,but jobshare actually provides a lot more consistency when one teacher is ill or off for any reason. There's still someone around who knows the class, can take charge of planning etc.

I'm sure it can work fabulously if the teachers get it right. My experience - slighly different to jobshare as another teacher covering for another for maternity leave. Ds was in despair - all things put in place by one teacher totally changed by other, I was particularly pissed off as his homework hadn't been marked for the last month before mat leave left then the message that came back from ds when I asked for it to be marked was she'd see but it wasn't her work as she hadn't set it

Total lack of continuity. Things finally got sorted. I kind of like the mat cover as ds had got on well with her so I'm rather inclined to overlook the fact she doesn't always mark the homework even set by her grrrrrrrrrr. Was rather sad when her cover came to an end - we even sent her a card.

Now original is back ...

We've had good and dire.

It's all down to good communication.

Sorry, but it was shit.

DS had this for yr2 (one teacher 3 days, the other for 2 days).

Luckily one of the teachers left (although she was the fab one out of the job share) which meant for the last 2 terms he had a f/t teacher but not the remaining pants one, another new to the school teacher.

Job share teachers seemed to disagree of everything ie DS was getting bullied one teacher said he needed to toughen up, the other was a lot more proactive, one teacher assessed DS at reading stage 6 (in yr2) and the other free reading (guess which teacher DS was frightened of!)

I was glad when it came to an end tbh.

It not bad per say it really depends on 3factors

personality of the child
school
the teachers themselves.

dd1 had job share teachers for reception as was 1st year 1st child dident realy overanalyse if this was good or bad thing.

one did 3days and was teaching longer bit shouty and strict but dd1 liked her better than newly qualified softer younger one who did 2days.

She had an ok reception year except the older one who was suppost to work 3days was frequently sick so lots of supply which not great I think with reception they could really d with 1 experinced teacher but woder as efys maybe its least worst place they can dump a rubbish teacher do least harm.

There was one mum at school who also taught at the school, peronally want to teach at same school as my chiild.

she covered a few of dd1 lessons.

But heared all sorts things that for her it was just a job that fitted in around her life she never put in the extra mile was a job of convieniance.
That she relucatantly took on 1 extra day when asked.

but dd1 then had 1 teacher in year 1 and had crap year 1 even though she adored the teacher she made little progress.

I think job shares are mre commn at some schools that others.

we moved schools after 1 term, then the new teacher at the new school ave notice so had 3teachers for year 2 in total.

4-5 if yu cunt diffrent one for pe, personal planning time and higher level ta teaching re.

she somehow had fab year and progressed.

Only 1 class in new school had job share year 4/5 but the strict one who did 3days has moved areas so left and left the younger nice newly qualified doing 5days and now parents are moaning that they liked the job share that childs not being pushed enough I will have reserve judgement dd1 in that class next year and 2years in that class but will have trust head will act accordingly and this year was bit of hiccup and make do year.

But freinds at old school had job share for their year 3 and its been disaster mainly because one one who did the mst days has been long term sick again shes been there 10years we were there 2years 1 term and never met the woman so they had loads of supply teachers.

when dd1 was at old school 1 class had teacher who was deputy head then head went sick and that year that class got messed abut as she was busy with headship duties and class had n continuity.

They need to have a plan, communicate and mesh well and think maybe reception, year 6 possibly year 2 benefit from just 1teacher.

Agree with FleurdeHeadLys:

Absolutely depends on communication/ division of labour between two teachers.

If they are organised, work well together and divide up tasks happily between themselves your child will thrive.

DD1 & DD2 both have had 2 years of job shares each - and in fact this year DD1's Y6 form was split in two with the main teacher focusing on those pupils struggling to achieve NC L4 on SATs.

They haven't been our best years in the school, but equally they haven't been our worst.

I think the reality is that it's pot luck. Just like having an individual teacher - it totally depends on how dedicated, professional and inspiring they are as individuals (job share or not).

HTH

DS had job-share teachers in yr1 and yr4. In both cases there was clearly a better teacher and a less able one but we didn't have any communication issues. I tend to agree half an excellent teacher is better than a whole hopeless one.

Ds had 2 teachers job sharing in P1. It worked very well - they were both experienced teachers with their own skills and strengths which the kids responded well to. One was especially good on literacy and one on numeracy.

One was the touchy feely one and the other one was stricter - yet interestingly, ds' favourite teacher (marginally) was the strict one.

The only down side is that you need to get two gifts at the end of the year (not compulsory of course! ).

Both teachers also shared a promoted post: as principle teachers, they were also part of the Senior Management Team. They "overlapped" on a Wednesday and were always very strong on communication.

DD2 had a job share in Yr5, it was fabulous. One teacher was great on the arts and language stuff, the other was the science/maths wizard. Communication was not a problem, they really worked as a team.

DD (yr 4) has two teachers on an am/pm basis. I think it's great. She is also in a mixed class of year 4/5 so it's all over the shop.

But the teachers are fabulous. The am teacher is more about maths, literacy, science etc. they say it's quite full on before lunch time. And then in the afternoon it's much more relaxed with things like art, topic, p.e