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By Mary

Will this be in an elementary school? I student taught fifth, and there was also a 5/6 split in the same wing. The other class in the wing was a sixth grade. Those three teachers got together at the beginning of the year
and assessed all the kids in literacy and math, and then just plugged them into the proper group for their proficency level (one of three) and each taught one of those math classes and one of the language arts classes. The kids were in the classes they needed for those subjects, not automatically with one grade or the other. For science and social studies, I almost think you have to

switch kids around. I would think that your sixth graders would go to the sixth grade, and your fifth graders to the fifth grade, and you'd get one class that was either half the fifth graders in the 5th and 5/6, or half the sixth graders in the 6th and 5/6. That schedule automatically differentiates for the kids in language arts and math, and all the switching is excellent practice for middle school. So anyway, that way you're teaching, for example, fifth grade reading, sixth grade math, sixth grade science, fifth grade social studies.

If for some reason you have teammates who don't want to do this, then your job is harder. Not impossible, but harder, because then you'd have 8 preps, not 4.