yet another maths teacher !

[mollykins]

i've lost count of how many maths teachers i've had, i'm starting to think i'm not going to get an 'a'.


has anyone else been in the situation where no teacher has lasted more than 10 weeks, and did they pass or fail the test?

[craft1948]

You really must stop frightening them off Molly...........

[cazzz1975]

my daughter spent an entire year with supply teachers (as did about 4 other classesin primary school) not only did her grades suffer as a result, that year the school went into special measures.

most of the problem was teachers going off for maternity leave

[mollykins]

cazz, its really annoying, but at least your daughter isn't in that situation during something like her gcse's or a-levels. The teacher i should have had got injured and only cam back for two weeks (probably to get sick pay) then left for another school, so we had a diferent teacher, who also left for another school, after 10 weeks or so, and since then its just been substitutes (lasting up to 10 weeks each) and supplies.

[cazzz1975]

the situation has not really improved, she is now in year 8 and for some of her lessons since starting secondary she has had the same treadmill of newly qualified teachers arriving, getting pregnant and leaving.

I would advise you to try your best to keep on top of your work so that you stand a chance when you have your exams

[wiggal]

Yes I had exactly the same in my GCSEs with Spanish teachers. We had one after the other and they were all useless, most of them just couldnt hack teaching the bottom set!
I got a D, which was actually pretty Ok considering I did no revision either!

[mollykins]

we're being given ahrdly any work to do. We have disruptive people, so noone gets anything done, or learns anything.

The rest of us, who actually want to pass the test, went into school for a whole day, in the holidays, and the head of maths just went over everything that'll be in the test (half of the course) and has left the new teacher to teach us vectors, coordinates and harder shape stuff.

[factor-fiction]

"We have disruptive people, so noone gets anything done, or learns anything. "

Sadly this is commonplace, even in higher ability sets. If the pupils are disruptive then it may not matter whether you have one permanent teacher or several supply teachers, although I accept that if you get a permanent teacher with good behaviour management skills and the school policies on behaviour support the teacher then there is a better chance of higher quality teaching and learning.

[mollykins]

This new guy is a bit mad and a sci-fi addict, but we actually had the first quiet lesson in weeks, probably months, our last teacher was useless at control two particular students.

Yep, and we're the top set, as you said factor, they probably muck around because they think they know everything and think they're garanteed a good grade. To be honest, i think set two's and three's (for maths, english and science) are the best behaved as many of them are on the c/d borderline and need to work hard and concentrate, to get the good grades.