Photo Essays: Specialized Classrooms: Form Levels
Figure 1.--These boys are changeing classes and comparing notes before the science teacher arrives to open up the lab room.
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Most prep schools deal with children from about 8-13 years of age. Many have younger children in the pre-prep. The younger children spend most of their day in their form rooms. Lessons for most subjects are given by their form teacher. Thus for the most part all the children have the same curriculum, although there may be some variation for special needs children. Prep schools tend to have a traditional curriculum, heavy on basic reading and writing and numeracy skills. This is something the form teachers are prepared to handle with considerable skill. The older children who begin to get into more advanced subject matter. Here it is better to have teachers with specialized training. Thus the older children tend to spend more time in the specialized rooms. They thus have to change classes during the day and not all the children in the form take the same classes. Such variations, however, are limited because of te size of the chools. One of the major differences is foreign language work.
