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Re: ARTICLE: America's biggest teacher and principal cheating scandal unfolds in Atlanta |
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Posted by Scorpio7 on Sun Jul 10 11:46:37 2011, in response to Re: ARTICLE: America's biggest teacher and principal cheating scandal unfolds in Atlanta, posted by JayMan on Sun Jul 10 11:00:33 2011. "But when you change the class size in the same district but don't change the students, as has been done in minority districts in an attempt to boost their performance, you don't see much effect."Not if you don't change the way teachers teach, or teachers don't take advantage of the opportunities smaller groups present (often because they don't know them). And that's exactly what appears to have happened here. Reducing the size of classes (and I don't mean going from 25 to 23 students, I mean going from 25 to 15) isn't the magical solution in itself, it's just an 'enabler'. It opens up a whole lot of opportunities for new, much more intensive teaching methods. If you simply reduce class size, most teachers will simply do the same thing, teach in the same way, to a smaller group. Of course there's not going to be much result! If teachers don't know these more intensive methods (because they're simply not trained for them) they're not going to use them, and thus it'd be money thrown away. |
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