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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the PP suggested that Beauvoir has a great deal of teacher turnerover each year; please comment on the reasons this happens and when you state turnover do you mean one or two teachers or over 5 teachers. Why are some teachers more effective than others (do they plan together as a team to ensure students are receiving the same instruction) and what does administration do to solve this? What role does the Associate Teacher play in the Beauvoir classroom?[/quote]

Regarding teacher turnover, I don't have statistics.  I can only say during my DD's time there, there were three different years between K and 3 where the grade (composed of 4 teachers) lost 1-2 teachers (I think 1 teacher 2 of the years, and 2 teachers 1 of the years).  That creates somewhat of a panic if your child is entering a year where the teacher is new (I don't think anyone wants new teachers).  And to as to why that is, I don't know.

I know the associate teachers are wonderful stabilizers in the class.  No matter what, you have this other teacher who remains the same (though generally the real teaching and authority comes from only the primary teacher...the associate seems to be an organizer, a reader to the children during breaks, etc.  Not an instructor).

I know the curriculum is posted somewhere and the studies that the children have are generally consistent (they will all be able to refer to common educational elements, such as common projects and field trips, complete consistency in all resource classes, and common core elements of the curriculum).  But there will be differences in terms of homework (huge differences), and in terms of how much reading is done in the classroom (and how it is done...some will use reading groups, others will not).  There is some grouping of children across classes by math level, so some children will go into another class to learn math with kids at the same level (which I think is helpful).  [/quote]

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