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Date Posted: 21:35:46 04/18/07 Wed
Author: Ethel McKinney (happy)
Subject: Re: Classroom Size
In reply to: Erie Martha Roberts 's message, "Classroom Size" on 08:24:40 04/15/07 Sun

>I agree with you 100%. I also teach in MCS but in my regular classes,I don't have the luxury of small classes. My honors classes are small and students are ideal. I teach math by the way, and a classroom of 22 slow learners, 2 non-english speakers and 4 advanced, has exhausted me. Everyday is a struggle to help all my students find success during the day. An ideal situation would be that I had an aid for every 25 students. I am spread so thin trying to coerce my advanced students to help the slower ones and maintain control of the classroom when all the students want to do is talk and pace the room.I wish our superintendent of schools and our illustrious Governor Bredesen could read the articles and research we see in class. Maybe they would mandate a White Ribbon Plan for students who want to give up because they are lost in an overcrowded classroom.

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[> Re: Classroom Size -- Nick Pellegrin, 13:41:46 04/19/07 Thu

I completely agree with you Erie. I have much more success with my smaller classes than I do with my larger classes. Larger classes require the teacher to have to focus a lot of time on discipline and management before he/she actually gets to the lesson. This time is not required for smaller classes which tend to develop a classroom climate of achievement much easier.

I also found it to be very interesting how the book discusses Baumrind's parenting styles as the same as teaching. I sure hope my kids would classify me as authoritative.

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