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[quote=Anonymous]My child had a second year teacher.  It was a so-so experience and I think the OP is right to be concerned.  My feedback on our experience:

Teacher's primary concern was making sure test scores were very good so she would get good evaluations.  She taught the material to a slighty below average point. It was so simplistic that any child doing average work could pass tests without much thinking.  For the same reason, she focused on helping the lowest performing students almost excusively.  Students who did average or above averags she spent almost no time on.  I believe that a more veteran teacher would better balance this situaitons.

She had not mastered behavior management techniques yet and defaulted to ones that just didn't work and of course lots of yelling.  She didn't have enough experience to really know what works for her and what doesn't and so there was also a lot of trial and a lot of error in this area.

She didn't know enough to know when she was in trouble and needed to reach out for help to veteran teachers and administrators. This by far was the biggest problem. Also, her teaching team also included 2 other new teachers and only one teacher with more than 3 years experience.  These were the teachers she primarly reached out to for help but they were also not experineced enough.

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