Isn’t it better for students to have a different teacher each year?
The benefits of continuing with the same teacher a second or third year outweigh the advantages of changing teachers each year. The better a teacher knows a student, the easier it is for the teacher to provide appropriate instruction. Students can continue a second year using the same routines and expectations established with their same teacher. It is less stressful for the teacher, student and parent to work together when they have had the opportunity to get to know each other for longer than one year. The following verse by Sig Boloz conveys the same perspective: STARTING OVER All educators have had at least one experience of starting a career in a new school. We have had the experience of not knowing exactly what to expect, of not understanding the rules– written or unwritten— and of not recognizing whom to trust and whom to avoid. There is little strength in starting over when it is not your choice. There is little effectiveness in bridging from the obscure to the unknown. Few pr
