<p>Like if the teacher was your fresh/soph/junior/ or senior teacher?</p>
<p>Because I plan on not asking any junior year teachers, even though I can. The reason is because I plan to ask my math teacher for senior year whom I have never had as a teacher up to that point, but will have as a math team coach for several years now. Secondly, I plan on asking a history teacher who I had my entire sophomore year and potentially senior year.</p>
<p>Well letters of recommendation are either forms or not - if they’re forms they usually are asked to list how long they’ve known the applicant and what courses/grades. If not and they just write the letter to whatever form they like, then usually the teacher will at least mention what courses they taught. If the latter is the case, you could ask the teacher to omit the year and just name the course - forcing whoever reads your letter to put two and two together. I wouldn’t suggest asking the teacher to omit what courses they taught you (Yeah, I’m ____'s teacher…) Could be Kindergarten for all the College knows…</p>
<p>Okay, so that’s not probable, but I’d just talk to the person who’s writing you a letter about it if I were you…</p>
<p>They won’t care. What they’re looking for is insight from a teacher who knows you well in an academic capacity. An elementary school teacher would obviously be a bad choice, but a teacher from sophomore year is fine unless your target college specifies otherwise.</p>