The Importance Of Classroom Size For Learning
Overcrowded classes cause teachers to waste time imposing order, harm the most disadvantaged students and make it difficult to individualize teaching. Many public schools slightly exceed the charter school average with 22 students per class in Primary and 25 in Secondary. The situation has worsened in recent years in conventional public schools due to the lack of teachers. It is hardly talked about, but it is what affects the day to day in class the most. How many students are in a classroom or how many people does a teacher have to deal with every hour? Although it is the most visible part of this quantitative variable, it is not the only one. There are others, less obvious, but also important: how many exams the teacher has to correct or how many families he/she has to interact with within each classroom? The ratios determine how far the attention to the students can be individualized. Classroom size matters, and not only in the performance of the students, but also in the course of ...