Does Teachers Bother To Look At A Childs Report

[renegadefm]

Just wondering when a child aged 9 returns to school after the summer holidays and enter a new season and teacher, does the new teacher bother to read the childs report from the previous teacher?

 

Our daughter had a glowing report, they couldn't praise her enough, shes helpful, engaging, etc etc. 

 

But since she's started the new term, we noticed she seems upset when coming out of school, and shes not the happy girl we knew before the holidays, in fact yesterday she said mummy I don't like school, I don't want to go. 

But this not like her at all. 

 

She said my new male teacher is quite strict, and not nice. 

 

Wouldn't teachers benefit from reading a child's previous report to see and gauge how to move forward with each child. 

Or do they start with a clean slate? 

[renegadefm]

Sorry I was going to originally say does a teacher, but wrong gammer, it should say do teachers. God embarrassing when my topic was about schooling lol

[newmodarmy]

Don't worry about your 'gammer'...we knew what you meant.

In what ways do you think your teacher would or should change his or her behaviours or style after reading last years report?

Is it a big class of 25+?

 

[newmodarmy]

...year's

 

[newmodarmy]

And I see he/she is a he.

[renegadefm]

newmodarmy, 

Well its a long story, but a pupil was doing a show and tell, but someone dropped a piece of paper, so my daughter done and act of kindness and picked up the paper for the person who dropped it, but the teacher shouted at our daughter and said dont be disrespectful towards the child reading her show and tell, but this incident obviously greatly upset our daughter, because an act of kindness turned against her. She's suddenly being accused of being disrespectful. 

 

Ok perhaps she got her timing wrong, but my God they are still children, and they make mistakes. 

To me this is out of order, especially to shout at a child. 

[bhg481]

Perhaps the teacher is expecting a more mature attitude from his pupils as they get older and your daughter is finding it difficult to get to terms with.

[ToraToraTora]

They would have read the report. All teachers have their own style. Sounds to me like the new guy is trying to stop her resting on her laurels, tryig to get the best out of her. Sounds like a good teacher to me.

[rockyracoon]

Hi might very well have read the report. He obviously has a very different teaching style to the teachers that she has previously had.  As students get older, they need to be able to start coping with this as in a couple of years she'll be in secondary school where she likely have at least 9 subjects teachers and a form tutor, not all will be nice.

Of course, he could also be a pig. See if you can have a chat with him.

[DDIL]

My initial thought based on your other posts, is that you need to stop mollycoddling your child!

She will be starting secondary school soon and needs to learn how to cope without daddy running around after her!

The teacher is correct it was disrespectful to the child speaking. 

[Peter Pedant]

I think she needs encouragement - and also how this is a lesson for life - a small change can give a large result and she shdnt let it phase her too much

I imagine we have all  had this - nice teacher, good subject and results, next year, difft teacher, ugh and results go down

and no they dont - 

and reports have for along time been seen to reflect on a teacher more than the pupil

[Old_Geezer]

Had any teacher yelled at me for doing the right thing I suspect my opinion & respect for them would fall so far I'd not have learnt much that year as I'd be too busy inwardly scowling at them all year to take much in.

 

Show & tell ? Did this occur in the US, or is this yet another foreign tradition the UK has adopted ?

[Peter Pedant]

I changed skool and fun was turned to 'sit there and listen and dont speak' - and  I thought aged 8 - "what a  bummer, is it always gonna be like this ?"  yes it was (sixties) - the raving sixties didnt extend to school teaching

[naomi24]

If the teacher thinks the way to teach good manners is to shout at children, he would benefit from a lesson in good manners himself.  He handled what was actually a minor situation very poorly. An incident like that can put children off school for life - and that's sad.  Totally unnecessary.

[ToraToraTora]

09:11 ...and you turned out great! 🙃

[ToraToraTora]

09:16 was to PP

[Peter Pedant]

They all yelled and I learnt a lot.

We all had to raise our hand - and shout - "suuuuuuuuuuh" as tho we were on the lavatory and await the summons

then when he did a calculation on the board and said 2 times 2 is eight - we were expected to shout out

contradictory rules and we kinda learnt life was gonna be full of them so you just as well start now

( this was a time when the teacher used to regularly hit the kids and stranger would bash any kid he thought was misbehaving in the street)

[That's nothing Fanny Fall used to drag us across the floor by our hair...]

[Peter Pedant]

09:11 ...and you turned out great!  - thx TTT - that has really bucked me up !

"History" was  - - a pupil was apptd to read out of the little History book. So no one learnt ( I kinda thought there might be more to it) anything not in the book.

My deah late papa said " christ we were doing that in South Africa in 1920"

[hellywelly4]

This happened to my daughter about 40 years ago. She went from being a child who loved school to one who hated it. I went into the school and spoke to the headmistress. To cut a long story short the teacher left the following week. He was a bully and very nearly destroyed my daughter. Go into the school and speak to the head - something is very wrong there.

[jourdain2]

I've never, ever been given reports on the children in my new classes at the beginning of the school year.

If there is a child with a non-visible handicap (perhaps deaf in one ear) the Year Head would mention it.

I once took over a class at the beginning of their 2-yr GCSE course and, as usual, I set a simple first homework so that I could mark it quite heavily for punctuation, spellings etc. and draw each child's attention to the areas needing more help/work. 

This had worked well for 20 years plus -  but one year no-one told me that a pupil was severely dyslexic.....    Don't worry, she turned out fine, although she was upset to start with, because I arranged an extra lunchtime session with her every week.

Usually, if you have a problem or worry about a pupil - you go to the Year Head who can give you a history if he/she thinks you need to know.  It gives every child a chance to start with a clean sheet every year.

[bednobs]

i dont understand how reading the previous report would help a teacher deal with what's in front of them anyway ... if a child sets off a firework i class are you gona think "well they had a great report last year so i won't tell them off this time"?