February 5, 2009

Editorial on student-teacher ratio













I wanted to share with you a recent editorial by Dr. William Bosher on NBC12 regarding student-teacher ratio. Please view the video on the NBC12 site.
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Unknown said...

I'm afraid that I must disagree with the editorial to a certain extent. When dealing with older and more mature students, I believe the increase in size would not affect the learning of the students. However, at the lower levels, where maturity is still growing, it can have a negative effect. When a teacher has a larger class size, it is more difficult to detect problems that may be affecting the student’s ability to learn. Problems in the home or general issues may need to be addressed. At a young age, the students are not equipped to deal with these issues and require assistance in dealing with them appropriately. Increasing the class size takes the teacher/mentor and transforms them to a professor. At a young age, mentoring is important. Whether a teacher wants to be a mentor or doesn't "get paid" to be a mentor, they are still mentors. Increasing the class by 1 student may not make the difference, but next we may need to increase by 1, and then next year by 1. 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1= 16. The standard class size was 23 at one time. Now where is it?

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