On 20 Mar 2008 18:30:48 GMT, Ar wrote:
>> A schools minister was yesterday heckled by teachers after he backed
>> larger class sizes and suggested that it could be "perfectly acceptable"
>> to teach maths to pupils in classes of up to 70.
>
>At university you have sizes of 160 students.
Apples and oranges. Students get lectured to rather than taught, with
an extremely small amount of interaction, except when practical skills
are involved (where classes are much smaller). Teaching is very much
an interactive process, ideally between the teacher and every single
pupil in the class. A lecture is pretty much fixed, whilst a lesson
is adapted as it progresses depending on pupil feedback.
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Cynic
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