It takes someone who can be flexible, who is able to listen, and who can help students connect pieces of information. With room for 115 students and the length of stay averaging four months, this is a school where everyone is on the fast track. Discipline is seldom an issue, even among students who arrive with a long track record of behavior problems. Small class sizes enable teach ers to get to know their students as individuals and to adapt lesson plans to match specific needs and interests. No one has a chance to feel anonymous or out of the loop.
Teachers speak to everybody in class, everyday.
Students call teachers by first name and know them as friends, mentors, and role models in addition to instructors. Maybe she wouldn't understand an assignment. So she'd go to her teacher for help. But her teacher would be too busy to help her. So she wouldn't get it done.