children 'correcting' class work

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Sorry for the length of the post but I need opinions on this please.
My DD's Year 5 teacher has gone on maternity leave commencing Monday this week. The replacement teacher, who is new to the school, will teach my daughter for the remainder of the term.

During the week, dd has commented upon the fact that on two occasions, the teacher has 'rewarded' a few children, by getting them to help with his work.
The first instance was following their times table test when he asked the brightest child at maths, to call out the answers to the class but without providing her with an answer sheet(it is a timed test of 100 multiplication and division facts. The children told him that this wasn't the method adopted by their former teacher and that as a pupil, this child shouldn't be calling out the answers as she had sat the test!
The second instance occurred today. The class were provided with a long list of words of which they had to incorperate as many as possible into a piece of written work. DD stated that whilst the teacher was doing his teaching work, two children sat and went through each childs copy book, counting how many of the words each child had included in their text.

To me this all seems totally inappropriate but I don't know whether it's worth bringing to the attention to the head teacher as there are only three more weeks left of term.

Any ideas please would be most appreciated. I just need another perspective on this and as dd only told me on the way home for school, I haven't managed to discuss it with any other parents.
Thanks

does sound a bit inappropriate, but I wouldn't go to the head at this stage, it's a supply teacher and the term is winding down

I don't see much wrong with this as long as it wasn't done in the wrong way - as in allowing 'cleverer' children to show off or put down others. It's quite common in our school for a child to call out the answers to a test - I can't see why the fact that they'd done the test themselves should be a problem. Also, your DD's class will have to get used to different teachers & different methods - there's no reason why a supply teacher should follow a previous teacher's methods exactly.

why would you find it inappropriate? it just sounds a different way of doing things tbh

Absolutely nothing wrong with a child calling out the answers. Why does it seem inappropriate?

i think it's inappropriate for 2 children to be looking thorugh a fellowclassmates book and basically correcting it. no problem if no names on work, but it's not right - there could be teasing ' haha, you only used 3 words, but so and so had 10' sort of thing. could be damaging. and some studnets thinking ' well why wasn't I chosen to look thorugh the books' just doehs't sit right with me

the calling out answers is ok

They call this assessment for learning and it is the thing in secondary schools. It actually works really well I find, but depends on how it is initiated. Could come across as unneccessary but if monitored properly by the teacher should be helpful in personalising learning and improving understanding. HTH

I often do class marking in maths as it shows chn how they have done and can help to clear up any misunderstandings. Getting the work back marked the next day has less meaning. It also saves time! Marking a year 5 classes work is literally hours EVERY night after school.

Thanks for the replies.

I suppose I felt that having two children correct the other children's work was inappropriate as a) it's the teachers job to mark each child's textbook and not their classmate b)the children in question missed their science lesson as a result c)as the teacher wasn't marking the English work, he couldn't ascertain whether or not the words being used were done so in the right context - it's pointless for a child to use the given 30 or so words if there meaning was not fully understood by the writer. I can half accept it if it is something that has a right or wrong answer but in this case, I don't think so.

As has been suggested , I'm leaving it be but will re-tink the situation if anything else comes to light.
Thanks!