Alternate Teachers Alternate Days Year 1

[MGS1968]

Private Catholic
Teacher A Mon Tues every 2nd Wed
Teacher B Thur Fri every 2nd Wed

Year 1 6yr old girl

What are the thoughts/experiences of such an arrangement? Thanks.

Mark

What’s your issue specifically? There’s no reason 2 teachers splitting the week wouldn’t work, children are used to several teachers with them in a nursery setting.

Sounds brilliant. Your child has two consistent teachers who will hopefully not be super tired and crawling to the end of Friday. I can't see any problems at all with that set up.

It doesn't sound too unusual. It can be a good arrangement as the 2 teachers may well have different strengths and the children get both.

A teacher share worked well for my DD... they had different strengths so they got the best of both.

Happens just like that in lots of schools and works perfectly well.

No thoughts, sounds fine.

It usually works well, good idea.

Fairly common to have a job share but often they split the Wednesday.

Both my DDs had job share teachers in year 1. I went in with a really positive feeling, fresh teachers, different strengths etc.

DD1 started the year with 2 teachers, ended the year with 2 completely different teachers. The first two clearly didn't get on and I suspect that one going off sick was related to that. One of the supply teachers they ended the year with hadn't taught primary before. Finding a teacher to replace a job share teacher can be really hard, who wants to work alternating Wednesdays?

DD2, the teachers didn't seem to build a decent rapport with her, I think neither saw her enough to really know and understand her. They genuinely didn't seem to like her much. They didn't work out that she's really good at maths, just saw she did the minimum and left it at that. We didn't have any of those issues in other years, when she had one consistent teacher.

So I'd say it didn't work out for us, either time we tried. But I'm sure it can work.

Very common and works brilliantly. Different teachers bring different personalities and different specialist subjects. So you get the best of them. My kids have often had a similar arrangement throughout primary and prefer it to the same teacher for 5 days a week!

Your title is wrong - that is not alternate days.

This is a perfectly normal arrangement. As previous posters have said, your DC will benefit from a fresh teacher full of energy rather than one on their knees by the end of the week. Job shares also allow for specialism - my job share was a great art teacher whereas I can’t colour between lines!