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A good teacher in a school will also break up phonics instruction and weave it in throughout the day. The challenge of giving individual instruction to 20-35 st
by cardamomo 6y ago
A good teacher in a school will also break up phonics instruction and weave it in throughout the day. The challenge of giving individual instruction to 20-35 students is monumental, though. Source: I'm a kindergarten and first grade teacher.
- opwieurposiu 6y agoYou teach 30+ first graders solo? Each kid would get 2 minutes an hour. A close to impossible teaching task. Is that a normal teacher student ratio in your district? Is that normal for public school?
- tasogare 6y agoThis is the norm almost everywhere worldwide.
- pfranz 6y agoLooking around in the US[1], it looks like legally the cap can be from 1:15 - 1:25 (K-3). It looks like 1/3 of states don't have any legal cap. Funny enough, this chart[2] correlating reading performance and class size stops at 1:21 for 4th and 8th grade. [1] http://ecs.force.com/mbdata/MBQuest2RTanw?rep=KK3Q1807 http://ecs.force.com/mbdata/MBQuest2RTanw?rep=KK3Q1807 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%E2%80%93teacher_ratio#/media/File:US_correlation_between_class_size_and_reading_performance.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%E2%80%93teacher_ratio#...
- analog31 6y agoIndeed, my kindergarten class was 36 kids.