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Home : 2002 : February : 6
With older students, they know you are a first year teacher and that sometimes brings out the worst in them. I've seen good and bad classes in many grades in the schools I've taught. Some were with first year teachers, some were with experienced teachers. Now there are exceptions and sometimes we don't even know all of them. I'm sure that if a teacher has had to be on medical leave for the past year and has just returned, she or he might be given a less active class for a year. Or yes there are those teachers (hopefully fewer and fewer) who do not have good management skills so again the more difficult students may be put into other classes. But I don't think many Principals think "great I have a new teacher, let's put all the difficult kids in his/her room". And with larger schools sometimes it just happens more by accident than anything. I know in the one large school I taught in the classes (4 of them) were basically divided up by names. They started with the last names and just went one by one into the different rooms. They had a modified class so the lower students who were struggling went into this class so they didn't worry too much about strengths/weaknesses dominating a class. Thankfully the classes worked out fairly well, but one class was a bit more of a handful than all the others. That class went to a third year teacher. My class as a first year teacher was great.
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