Benefits of ‘looping’ kids with teachers for multiple years
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Benefits of ‘looping’ kids with teachers for multiple years
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#3This seems like a practice that would work for some students and hurt others. Some students may not do well with a particular teacher. Being stuck for years with that teacher is a disservice to the student.
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#4Montessori (AMI) does this. Like anything there are tradeoffs. It great when it works; it's aweful when there is a problem. Implementation is also dependent on teacher availability.
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#5This is certainly a good idea (but only if the teachers are great).
Nevertheless I recommend everyone to read "I would never send my kids to school" by Piotr Wozniak: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/I_would_never_send_my_kids_to_sc...
Something is fundamentally wrong with the educational system and it's holding humanity(/your children) back big time.
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#6I think it more important to have a structure that supports students in building and advisor relationship with a senior faculty that last year over year.
Re: Benefits of ‘looping’ kids with teachers for multiple years
#7This seems like a practice that would work for some students and hurt others. Some students may not do well with a particular teacher. Being stuck for years with that teacher is a disservice to the student.
This was my experience in schooling two decades ago. I had the same teacher for Grades 1, 4 and 7. This teacher and I did not work well together and I noticeably got worse grades in grades 4 and 7 than I had in the surrounding years.
I am sure the teacher was sick of me by the third year as well.
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#8This seems like a practice that would work for some students and hurt others. Some students may not do well with a particular teacher. Being stuck for years with that teacher is a disservice to the student.
That one student should be able to switch to a different group. If all want to switch then there's a problem with the instructor.
Let's look at the opposite end of the spectrum. Student loves an instructor but is needlessly switched to someone new. My point though is that the flexibility to change or stay in the same group should exist.
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#9I don't remember a single post-Soviet school which did not do that.
Sometimes your teacher gets replaced for one reason or another, but unless that happens, the default is that a given subject (such as maths) is taught by the same teacher from beginning (middle tier school) to the end.
Students end up informally calling their teachers by the subject since threre is no ambiguity - "the geographian" or "the english".
Re: Benefits of ‘looping’ kids with teachers for multiple years
#10This seems like a practice that would work for some students and hurt others. Some students may not do well with a particular teacher. Being stuck for years with that teacher is a disservice to the student.
That one student should be able to switch to a different group. If all want to switch then there's a problem with the instructor. Let's look at the opposite end of the spectrum. Student loves an instructor but is needlessly switched to someone new. My point though is that the flexibility to change or stay in the same group should exist.
Tried this. Was not allowed to switch because it would cause an uneven class size. At least, that's what I was told the policy was for.