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Elementary school hires additional 4th grade teacher

Posted 9/22/21

Daly Elementary School in Fayette will add a third teacher and classroom to meet the needs of a large fourth-grade class. During its regular meeting on Wednesday, September 15, the Board of Education …

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Elementary school hires additional 4th grade teacher

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Daly Elementary School in Fayette will add a third teacher and classroom to meet the needs of a large fourth-grade class. During its regular meeting on Wednesday, September 15, the Board of Education approved the expansion and voted to hire Abbie Innes as the new fourth-grade teacher.

Innes is currently an instructional paraprofessional in the fourth-grade classroom. She will join Michelle Stout and Lisa Wiswall on the fourth-grade faculty.

The need for more help in fourth grade did not come as a surprise to board members. In August the board voted to add an additional paraprofessional for fourth grade. Now with 58 students, the fourth grade will be divided into three classes rather than two. Kindergarten through third grades already have three classes. Up to now, grades four and five have been divided into two classes.

Under Missouri’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s (DESE) Missouri School Improvement Program 6 (MSIP6), it is recommended class sizes not exceed 20 students per one teacher.

Daly Elementary principal Cheri Huster said she expects the classes to split on Tuesday, October 5. “I would like to email out all fourth-grade families first to let them know this has happened. We have a tentative class list of how they would change.”

The additional fourth-grade classroom will open in the room where technology teacher Tiffany Zimmel currently has her computer lab. Her classes would then be moved to the Clark Middle School computer lab.

“This transition will mean that all students will continue to have Ms. Wiswall for reading each day, Ms. Stout for math each day, and Ms. Innes for writing each day regardless of which homeroom they are in,” Huster said.

Huster said she anticipates keeping the third teaching position with the large class as it moves to fifth grade next year. Once middle school students reach sixth grade, they switch between classrooms for each subject.

Huster added that it would be nice to hire another teacher next year so that fourth grade will continue to be separated into three classes.

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