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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And the AAP hate brigade comes out in full force on January 1.  OP, a single year is not an adequate sample.  Give it one more. We have had brilliant and indifferent teachers. It would be the same in GenEd. Some brilliant and some indifferent teachers.  The AAP program is differentiated; it may not always translate into differentiated classroom experience.[/quote]

OP, please listen to this post! Your child is halfway through the first year of AAP--and that's all. As others noted, too, you will see more of a difference especially in fifth and sixth grades. And there may be more difference in third than you realize; I thought things were pretty similar with what my child's friends at the base school were doing in third grade -- until I had a long talk with one of those kids and her mom (close friends) and realized that certainly in math, the AAP third graders were doing stuff far ahead of the base third graders that year, and that some of the English projects were more creative as well. So there may be differences you're not seeing. And we had both experienced and very new teachers in four years of elementary AAP at a center, and had overall good experiences; some of the less great experiences (meaning--duller classes) actually were with teachers who had been around longer but were more "done" and looking at retirement just ahead.

And OP, as always on DCUM, the AAP-haters have hijacked your question to whine on about AAP overall. I hope you can ignore them and focus on your own kid's particular experiences, and can give it time. And remember, not every AAP teacher in every year is going to be perfection or have ideal experience, just as every general ed teacher is not going to be like that either. Plus, your child probably has one main teacher in third, right? By fourth in our center, my kid had one main teacher but went to other teachers for all math and science, and by sixth he had four different teachers (homeroom/math/literature, science, writing, social studies). So your child soon may have more than one teacher and will end up having a variety of experiences.[/quote]

All kids (GenEd and AAP) have one homeroom teacher and several other teachers for different subjects, starting in 3rd grade.  This is certainly not AAP-specific.[/quote]

I posted that. I didn't claim it was AAP-specific. I just noted that the OP's child is going to have more teachers each year and is going to have different experiences with different teachers -- so if OP is basing his or her negative take on AAP on third grade alone (in our third grade the kids had only two teachers), things are going to change a bit more each year. For us, with four teachers in sixth grade for the core subjects, that meant some young and inexperienced teachers, some very experienced ones, some who clicked with our kid better than others, some whose teaching was good but their style was not what our kid enjoyed -- but all got the job done and our child learned a lot and was very ready for middle school. OP just needs to know that basing an opinion on the whole program on half a year of third grade and one or two teachers doesn't give enough information to make any judgment calls.[/quote]

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