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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]22:38:  The teacher who is not teaching a lesson will be working with the other students in small group learning and/or  helping kids who are working on their own. This time is not admin time or "break" for the 2nd teacher. It is team teaching in a new way and from what I understand, working out very well. [/quote]

Not true.  I'm a NP parent in the class.  As explained at BTSN, if there is one teacher lecturing at front, the second teacher will be in the back monitoring the kids and managing disruptions.  So instead of the lecturer stopping mid-sentence to say "Johnny, please move up here away from Billy" the second teacher will quietly ask Johnny to move without the lecturer having to disturb the kids who are listening.   They specifically said they felt this approach was better because a) it's quieter if only one teacher is lecturing at a time (since there weren't f-t-c walls between their classes) and b) because if a student is suppose to be listening in class it doesn't matter how many kids are in the room, and the lecturer doesn't have to stop for the kids who are actually paying attention.  So, imho, it benefits children who are capable of following along, but it also helps the distracted kids because there is an eagle eye on them at all time.  If they are working on break out groups, say in language arts or math, the class has the same ratio as the other classes 1:25.  Ms. Jensen is teaching math, science, and social studies in the morning, and Ms. Yedwab is teaching language arts in the afternoon.  [/quote]

That's not about pedagogy; that's about crowd control (which is, unsurprisingly, more of an issue in an overcrowded 50-kid classroom than in a 25 kid classroom).  And it certainly doesn't take a second credentialed teacher to perform the crowd control function.[/quote]

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