A child used to being taught by a primary class teacher may struggle six weeks later when confronted with 10 or 12 different teachers in a week.
Allie's primary class teacher, Karen Baldi, who has two young children herself, a son and daughter who have not played soccer or other outdoor sports for two weeks, said she had never had to be more creative with her confused charges.
In some primary classes, teachers institute "choice time," a period in the daily or weekly schedule when children explore learning resources on their own.
Table 4 shows the education specialization of pre-primary class teachers namely teachers with general education, teachers specialized in special educational needs, and teachers with early childhood education.
It also shows structural deficit in the special education teachers training as reported by the study informant response below: Table 4 Pre-primary class teachers education specialization.
This fact is justified by the data summarized in Table 3 which indicates that only one of the pre-primary class teachers from the sampled schools had specialization in special educational needs.
This fact is justified by the data summarized in Table 4 which indicates that only one out of the 10 pre-primary class teachers from the sampled schools had specialization in special educational needs.
In the study, twenty-eight (28) participants were involved including ten pre-primary class teachers (from both public and privately owned schools), ten heads of schools (both public and private), one early childhood education officer, one special educational needs officer, 1 head of special school, and five parents as indicated in Table 1.
Teacher data were completed by the main class teacher for each child.
Nina Koskinen, a primary-class teacher at the school, says: "Teachers do like to get feedback on what they do, but it is totally different over here to the UK.
But the popular "led primary" classes – where teachers call out the postures of a dynamic set sequence – can be intimidating.
