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hi, for each of my AS subjects, i have two teachers, each teaching a completely different thing to another. i feel like this is a bad thing, especially in economics as i know im goin to find it hard to link everytyhing ive learnt together in the exam, because it just feels like two completely dfferent subjects!! are most colleges set out like this?
also is it normal to be studying unit 3 in a subject before we have even done unit 1??

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Reply 1

Laura2712

My college is like that too. For every subject we have 2 teachers, I think they do it so that if you have a bad teacher hopefully you have a good one as well? We are currently doing mod 3 and 1 chemistry and yes, I am finding it a bit unlinked, it is the same with geography, we are doing the human and physical modules at the same time. It is a bit complicated but I suppose in the end we are going to need to know everything at the same time so it's good practice?!?!?! If you're that unhappy about it you could always move college.

Reply 2

Lidka

Think about it from a teacher's point of view - would you want to have responsibility for everything a class was learning? Of course not. This way your teachers have half the amount of lesson planning and marking to do, making their job easier, and you benefit by covering two topics at the same time, and two different teaching styles. For my A-levels I had between 2 and 5 teachers per subject, and I think it was much better that way.

Reply 3

alex_hk90

I have had 2 teachers for most of my subjects at A level as well.
I think it's better as it gives you some variety.
I haven't found any problems with it; I do Economics at it all worked out OK.

Reply 4

Glutamic Acid

I have 2 teachers for Physics. It's slight confusing, since they each have quite different teaching styles, but not a major problem.

Reply 5

dumbdunc

My schools like that too. Its cos we wouldn't get through it all in the time if we did one unit at a time. This way we get a whole half term to revise apparently. :smile:

Reply 6

TSR Community Staff

It's totally normal to have 2 or more teachers for a subject.

And certainly just as normal for them to be teaching separate topics to you.

When I did my A Levels I had one teacher for pure maths, another for applied maths and other for pure further maths and a fourth for applied further maths all at the same time over the two years.

I also had 2 teachers for chemistry, but over the 4 lessons each week we did a different thing in each each week - one lesson was in organic chemistry, another was organic chemistry, a third physical chemistry and the fourth a practical lesson.

It was similar in physics, only we had three teachers teaching that at any one time (though I think 4 taught us over the 2 years...they each did different topics and took it in turns to be the one not teaching a topic at a given time.

So basically yeah, it happens all the time. It;s a tried and tested method that really does seem to work (for many of the reasons given here and many more reasons too). You'd probably also get bored having 4+ lessons a week one exactly the same topic with the same teacher...this way you get at least 2 teachers and 2 topics to study at once ...less likely to find yourself bored out of your mind :p:

Reply 7

Rainygal

We had 2 teachers per subject for all subjects except theology and I liked that lesson, not subject, the least. Having 10 lessons per week with the same teacher for a whole year was very dull, even though he was nice!

Reply 8

ChocolateEyes

I have 2 teachers for English, History and Chemistry. Can be a bit annoying at times. Double the homework

Reply 9

prash_s90

i have 2 teachers for maths and english

Reply 10

k-lee C

we had at least two teachers for each subject, with some subjects having three.

can see the theory behind it....but in some subjects, it realllyyyy did not work. all that ended up happening was things were missed out because each teacher thought the other was doing that bit or else things overlapped too much and we were taught stuff twice. :rolleyes:

Reply 11

Excalibur

I think it's normal. This year, for Maths and German I have 3 teachers and for Biology and Chemistry I have 2. It works out well normally - they divide the syllabus up beforehand to avoid overlap.

Reply 12

kjc_us

I have 2 for each subject. It's great. Except for Latin where I have 3. I like it, it gives you more variety.

Reply 13

SJ_1

ive got 2 except for spanish where we only have one, but thats just coz we find it easier, well thts what i think anyways

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ChocolateEyes

I have 2 teachers for English, History and Chemistry. Can be a bit annoying at times. Double the homework

Two teachers doesn't eman double the homework...it just means each only gives you one home work a week instead of two a week. Or they give you a smaller task to do :p:

Reply 15

purple-girl

We have 1 teacher for Economics (as there is only 1 teacher...was a completely new subject last year), and 2 for everything else. What's happening in them all is that they're dividing Module 1 between them, having already decided which parts of it to do beforehand, then 1 does Module 2 and the other Module 3. It's only chem which I dunno which teacher's doing which module, but in the others I know. Well, I know in maths, and for bio we were told, though it wasn't 100% positive. And I like having 2 teachers...means it's more like 2 subjects rather than 1 in a way, and more variety.

Reply 16

Annaconda

i have 2 for bio and chemistry and in bio its gd cos each module is divided up into 2 diff topics in the syllabus so they easch teach one of those. But in chem both teachers are teaching 1 topic, then theyll both move onto the next one which is crap.
I also have 1 techer for maths and 1 for further maths but they are teaching different modules. I hate my C1 teacher but luckily ive done most of that already in add maths, i'll just have to teach myself the other modules he does i guess.
Oops that turned into a bit of a rant!

Reply 17

Something

I had 2 teachers for both History and Computing last year and Computing again this year.

It is alright for Computing as the teachers taught the different modules, one would teach the theory like operating systems etc the other would do programming.

I didn't find it very helpful in History though. One was teaching British History and the other Nazi Germany, it got very confusing later on in the year as each teacher started talking about what the other one was teaching and started bringing in facts about what the other one was teaching.

Reply 18

FCUtdWill

I have 2 teachers per subject apart from General Studies and Applied Science in which I have 3. It isn't a problem for me as they teach me a different unit so I know when I walk into a lesson with a certain teacher I know that I'd be doing a certain unit of work. And, it is something different.

If for example I had 2 teachers teaching the same unit, I would get confused because some teachers might teach you what you did last lesson with your other teacher.