On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:53:42 -0000, "William Black"
wrote:
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>"abelard" wrote in message
>news:5oe5u315ra52kao5t3efv7vtb5vivj1n0n@4ax.com...
>> 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.....
>
>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.
every union shirker wants less hours and less work
>The quality of an education is directly proportional to class size.
it isn't...not even close....
the quality of education is primarily a function of teacher competence
...teacher competence assumes precluding proto-convicts
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