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By T.

Hi there!

I did my student teaching in 3rd grade, and worked my first year as a Title I teacher for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Now I'm teaching a 5th grade classroom. I've liked each of these grades, and also NOT liked them,
depending on the type of day I've had! :-)
The amount of grading/marking papers for the upper grades can be time consuming--I'm in a departmentalized 5th grade, and I grade language arts stuff for 26 kids, and social studies stuff for 78 kids! I am constantly behind with it, and although I agree that you can usually "steal" a couple of minutes during the day more than you can with

a younger class, you still can't really sit down and do anything too substantial. If you have a self-contained classroom, that might be different--I'm constantly getting the kids ready to switch, switching, getting the other classes settled, getting ready to switch again.....

If you go into 4th/5th grade, definitely find out about whether you're departmentalized! It makes a big difference with grading issues!

--T.