I had never realized that by being the first class a teacher teaches in a particular subject on a particular day is a handicap. It certainly is for students I teach. First period are my guinea pigs. By my third run through a class I and the lesson are practiced and better. How can this handicap be mitigated? I had an idea for a solution which seemed fair. What if you staggered your classes and at some point in October had your first class engage in some reasonable activity, different from the other two, that put them a day behind the pacing of the lessons? This shouldn’t create more work: it is still three classes just out of order. Now the first class of the day, third to receive the lesson, gets the benefits of all your mistakes you learned from in your other classes. If you regularly inserted a single day’s activity that changed the order in which the classes received a given lesson all your classes would evenly experience the same handicap but would also benefit equally.
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But the "mistakes" that first class got may have actually benefited them more than doing it "right" with the 3rd class. I always find that the class I do it "right" in has the lowest average because they don't get to learn from the mistakes the way everyone else did.
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