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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC (also in 1st grade) teacher will tell them she's busy and not help them. It's really awful, because it has made DC not ask her anything when help is needed because of being turned away so many times. I supplement a lot at home now, and got DC a tutor, but DC still has a crappy 1st grade teacher, unfortunately. [/quote]

It’s not the teacher. It’s the class sizes and differentiation for wildly different levels of students we have to do at all times in the classroom. We are not superheroes, we can only do so much. Talk to your school board and vote for more funding so we can have smaller class sizes! [/quote]

PP here. Just one class of mine has 8 ELL students in it, of varying lengths of time in this country, so they have anywhere from half a year to 3 years of English experience. I have to differentiate and accommodate for each of them *in different ways* because their speaking fluency may be lower than reading but higher than writing or listening. I also have 4 students with IEPs in that class who need prompts to stay on task, copies of notes, assurance with assignments, small group testing, etc. it is sometimes all I can do to circulate all these kids and make sure they’re on task, so I CANNOT repeat the instructions every time Jimmy who didn’t listen asks me or answer a question a peer could easily answer for me. It’s not a matter of being a “bad” teacher - we see simply stretched too thin. [/quote]

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