When does your school go from two teachers per class to one teacher per class?

[Anonymous]

Just realizing that in looking at schools last year we fixated entirely on the first couple of years!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just realizing that in looking at schools last year we fixated entirely on the first couple of years!

Everyone does that and the schools assume you do. When my children were accepted last year, I asked to see the high school at the ADs were stunned. I'm glad I did because the quality of those classes contributed to my decision. This is an important and expensive decision for any family and you should do your due diligence the way you would with any other issue.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the chiding--I get your point, but it doesn't really answer my question!

[Anonymous]

I asked to see the classes
It seemed that the high teacher/student ratio really meant a lot of noncontact time for some teachers, not actual smaller classes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the chiding--I get your point, but it doesn't really answer my question!

Sorry. I did not intend to chide. My answer would be that it depends on the school. I visited about six schools last year and every one did it differently.

[Anonymous]

At our school, CHDS, they go to 1 teacher in the classroom in 6th grade when they start moving from class to class. But several of the subjects (math, science, language, arts) are in sections so the actual class size is usually 10-12.

[Anonymous]

So you really have two full-time teachers in each class through 5th grade? That sounds pretty impressive.

[Anonymous]

I'd thought from the school visits that one of the adults was a teacher, and the other was an aide....not an equal co-teacher

[Anonymous]

Yes, 2 teachers through 5th grade in a class of 20-25 children. In 1st-5th grades they also split many subjects into two groups so that the number of children in the classroom is small.

[Anonymous]

At Beauvoir there are two teachers all the way through - but beginning in 1st grade one is a head teacher and the other an associate.

[Anonymous]

What is the difference between 2 teachers in a class of 20-25 versus 1 teacher in a class of 14-16? Is one better than the other?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the difference between 2 teachers in a class of 20-25 versus 1 teacher in a class of 14-16? Is one better than the other?

I think it kina eliminates the need for subs, if there are 2 official teachers for the larger class size
If one is out sick etc, there just isn't the usual splitting of classes

[Anonymous]

Actually, if one is sick, a sub or floater is brought in and class continues as normal (at least at my kids school).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the difference between 2 teachers in a class of 20-25 versus 1 teacher in a class of 14-16? Is one better than the other?

I have read repeatedly--here--that research indicates that 1 teacher with a small class is far superior to 2 teachers with a large class but cannot point you to chapter & verse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually, if one is sick, a sub or floater is brought in and class continues as normal (at least at my kids school).

ok
At mine, the kids just deal with one teacher
Subs are for the older grades, where they split into streams