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Why not have more teachers?

Going off on the nature of the student-teacher relationship, the most experienced is generally also the most desired teacher for a class, but that level of expertise is not achieved from the bottom down; every tenured teacher starts off as a beginner, meaning at least one class during the year is subject to being the teacher’s guinea pig. Although giving these students the best educational experience is top priority, the greater probability a recently certified teacher has in being ineffectiveness in the classroom is difficult to have to deal with.
Supplementing the new teacher with a more experienced one in the classroom is a good attempt at reducing the amount of mistakes the amateur can make and provides support that is greatly appreciated when, more often than not, the class size is particularly large. But this simultaneously limits the possibility of generating ideas that may be completely new and beneficial to incorporate into the methodologies currently used in education because of the untrained, less conventional approach the new teacher may be more inclined to make.

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