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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Beauvoir is 20-21 per class.  There are two teachers in every classroom, every grade.  Specials are taught to children in small groups (half the class or less)...these include science, spanish, art, music/drama etc. When that group is with the "specials" teacher the classroom teachers work with the remaining smaller group. The ratio is about 7:1.[/quote]
For its two teachers, does Beauvoir still use the model where one is an experienced teacher and the other is a new trainee teacher?  I recall them talking about that a few years ago when we applied.

I personally think it's a fine model for reducing the ratio, and each year's trainee should bring in new ideas and energy.  But I recall thinking the admissions person describing the program came across a little defensive, as if she herself felt she had to justify it.  But then again, she was an admissions person, not a teacher herself, so she probably had to put up with a lot of skepticism from parents.

So anyway, do they still use that model?[/quote]

In Pre-K, not K, at Beauvoir, but both our classroom teachers have roughly equal experience (and are both excellent). [/quote]

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