New students and teachers face significant challenges at the beginning of the school year. Students may feel uncomfortable and even resistant to the new teacher, while the new teacher may have difficulty communicating and engaging with his or her students. Whether these feelings are justified or not, they are a burden on the student and his parents, as well as the teacher. What solutions might make the adjustment process smoother, especially with the repetition of the experience at the beginning of each new school year, when class schedules change and the old leave and the new come?
Despite being a teacher at a school in Quseir city in the Red Sea Governorate in Egypt, Shaimaa Khamis has never forgotten that she was once a student, specifically that experience she went through in elementary school, when the English teacher was suddenly changed. 'I was very good at English because my teacher was good at dealing with us and was able to convey information,' Shaimaa told Al Jazeera Net. 'But suddenly, due to an emergency situation he had, he was replaced and a colleague came.'
The researcher suggests a set of measures that the teacher can take to reduce children’s suffering, and explains them in a set of steps, which are: To understand that it is normal for a student to be attached to his old teacher. If he feels that more than one child is having difficulty adjusting, he can ask the old teacher to share a class with him that we can consider a 'transitional' one, and he can introduce the students to him.
