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[quote=Anonymous]   We've had a good experience with a new teacher, but as a seasoned teacher pointed out there can be bumps. The biggest one for us was classroom management. It sounded chaotic. Also the teacher was busy putting out fires-telling kids to stop this or that, writing frowns on the home-school page, etc. There's an easy solution. You tell the teacher what works for your child. Even though it's a well researched fact that you need to give more praise than corrective feedback, I find it is more successful to say this works for my kid, rather than try to tell the teacher how to run her/his class.

Also, sometimes this teacher lost the forest from the trees and would waste time on minutia-with horrid worksheets.

On the other hand she has genuine enthusiasm and she was an incredibly hard worker. She checked over all work and was truly commited to meeting each child's needs. She was open to feedback, because when you start, no "god complex" has set in.

There are many good seasoned teachers, but keep in mind there are plenty of burnt out teachers and those who think they know everything. We have had more issues with veteran teachers who somehow keep their job despite complaints year after year. They know everything and sometimes you have to go up the ladder because the person is so set in her or his ways.[/quote]

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