Advantage and Disadvantage of looping

People have different views on the method of looping. Some people believe that it helps students to do better academically when they have a teacher for more than one year because the students learn what their teacher expects and the transition time from teacher to teacher each year is eliminated. It is also believed that students develop more personal relationships with their teachers, which help to make the academic process much more enjoyable. Other people believe that students become too comfortable with their teachers and when they are forced to change teachers, the transition can be more difficult.

 Research has proven that looping classrooms have advantages and disadvantages for students academically, socially, and emotionally. Looping classrooms though do not just affect the students. They also have had positive and negative effects on the teachers, administrators, and parents who have their students in a looping program.

Looping gives a teacher more time to work with students and to analyze their learning issues. Also a teacher has time to try different strategies with children who struggle academically. By having a looping classrooms, students who struggle academically have more time with one teacher.  In addition to that looping helps students who are in unstable family situations to have a stable school setting with the same teacher and the same group of students. It also provides a more trusting relationship between the student and the teacher.      

 But it also has given ways that looping is a disadvantage to students. A student could struggle academically if they do not like their teacher, and a teacher could be ineffective for the rest of the class if there is an issue with a particular student. Furthermore the students who come into a looped classroom after the first year can be a disadvantage to the new student and students and teachers sometimes have difficulty leaving each other at the end of a looping cycle.

  Looping classrooms have some issues, as all programs do, and may not be ideal for every child in education, but research has given examples of how children in a looping classroom are more successful in their academic career than students who are in a non-looping classroom.