On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:12:11 +0000, Cynic
wrote:
>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.
a good teacher can easily take on 100 pupils with a couple of
adequate assistants.....
though if taking on incipient convicts a civilised school organisation
would not be so available....
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