Perhaps the most significant difference between primary school and secondary school teaching is the relationship between teachers and children. In primary schools each class has a teacher who stays with them for most of the week and will teach them the whole curriculum. In secondary schools they will be taught by different subject specialists each session during the week and may have ten or more different teachers. The relationship between children and their teachers tends to be closer in the primary school where they act as form tutor, specialist teacher and surrogate parent during the course of the day.
What's the biggest difference in the teaching relationship for primary and secondary school? What does a teacher teach in primary school? Who teaches in secondary schools? Which type of school has a closer teacher-child relationship? What type of parenting role does a teacher take on?