What’s the limit of different grades I should teach my first year? Applied for a couple jobs and one is hiring for teaching 6 different grades.

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That sounds like hell. Six preps? For ELA? No.

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No more than TWO. Beyond that is madness.

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Well, in a small school, I taught three preps my first year and survived. (That said, one was in science, one was in math/reading remediation, and one was in life skills for parenting teens. None was in ELA.) Twelve years in, I now teach four preps, three ELA and one math.

I agree that for a first year, it would be better to have only two ELA preps.

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Where is this? Is it in some tiny school?

I know I interviewed in a school district in Michigan that was so small that one class would be like 4 grades combined in a single class.

Yeah, very small town— and wow, that’s a lot.

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