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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Due to retirements and relocations, our children's elementary school hired several new teachers this year. A couple of them are experienced, but others are recent graduates. We won't find out teacher assignments until later this week, but I am of course borrowing trouble and worrying that one or both of our kids will get a brand new teacher. Does anyone have a good experience having a complete newbie as a teacher? Teachers, were you completely clueless your first year?[/quote]

Both of our children (two grades apart) had brand new teachers for kindergarten; the older of the two also had a brand new teacher for 5th grade.  The newbies were enthusiastic, joyful, and seemed to love their jobs -- and, in turn, our kids loved their newbies and being a part of their "first" class.  As a parent, I've found that newbies tend to be more accessible/open than has been the case with some (but nowhere close to half) of the experienced/veteran teachers I've encountered (i.e., they're more likely to have a BTDT-attitude when it comes to a particular student/concern).  Also, at our elementary, it seems that newbies are spared from having to deal with/manage the more disruptive/challenging students who are instead assigned to experienced teachers.  For our family, "having a complete newbie as a teacher" has been "a good experience" 100% of the time versus about 75% of the time with non-newbie.  So for us, whether the experience has been "good" or "bad" didn't have anything to do with how many years, if any, the person had been teaching but what that person brought to the classroom each day.  In fact, the only difference I have ever noticed between a newbie and a vet/experienced teacher is that the newbies tend to have less "stuff" up on their classroom walls and tend to have less cluttered desks (I guess because they haven't yet accumulated the coffee mugs, apple motif ornaments/paperweights, and other stuff/junk parents -- including me -- bestow on teachers as holiday/teacher appreciation/end-of-year gifts).[/quote]

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