"abelard" wrote in message
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> On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:12:11 +0000, Cynic
> wrote:
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>>On 20 Mar 2008 18:30:48 GMT, Ar wrote:
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>>>> 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.....
Have you spoken to a teacher about that?
They'd like all class sizes down to public school levels of about 15 kids in
a class.
The quality of an education is directly proportional to class size.
--
William Black
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.
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