Yes it will: More personalized teacher-student relationships would allow the teacher to isolate and identify a student's weaknesses and create personalized lesson plans to remove their deficiencies. It would also allow the teacher to create more advanced lesson plans for the bright students who are bored out of their fucking minds. The bright move ahead, and the average and below-average work on weak spots, but everyone is challenged and pushed to achieve their maximum intellectual capacity. That should be the purpose of education, not a grade or admission to a college or some useless piece of paper called a degree.
I see 3 flaws in this statement of yours.
1. Teachers will go after favorites and work with the people who already got most of the subjects down and the ones with weakness will usually get ignored regardless of how much they get paid. All the teachers will think is they learned the material and thats good enough. Like Foh has said its pretty rare to see teachers who actually cares for the student.
2. You do realize even with how your idea will work out about smarter students moving ahead and getting challenge and stuff that over 50-80% of students would rather take easier work. They just wanna know they are at grade level work thats it. A lot of students dumb their selves down to make sure they don't get more difficult work. Almost all of my high school that I went to was exactly like that.
3. Most students don't wanna challenge and push their limits..... What they want is to get the fuck out of the school already. So placing them into school for a longer period will make sure they hear the information they need to learn and understand they need to be there.
Yes its about education and not about anything else like a paper that says you graduated, but with all honesty how much of this is logical and would actually happen when you think about people's actual attitude towards things and what they wanna do.
Also working in groups or good size class allows students to understand and learn from other students and see methods and ideas for them to understand the work.
It's hard to compare America to Japan, we're two totally different cultures.
We can't just expect to copy another country and get similar results. My solutions were based on American culture, the way we think, and our attitudes about things. What Japan does is irrelevant. Your point is disqualified.
Besides, if you would have read the fucking article, you would know American students spend more hours a year in a classroom than their Asian counterparts.
We might be 2 different cultures, but still humans. We still have similar thoughts and attitudes towards things. A lot of the learning methods are very much alike and the information is a lot alike. Looking at how other people run and teach is how we learn also and make our own methods of teaching and look at what is more effective. So what relic did say is quite relevant and is a great way to look at this.
Also you do realize articles doesn't give enough information and only gives enough to prove their views only? Instead of focusing on an article why not educate yourself with actual facts and information from other sources also to make a better picture in your head for yourself.
Quality over quantity. You make Y amount of butter churning it the old fashioned way. Sure, increasing time T will increase the amount of butter you can churn; ie f(T)=KT; but no matter how much you increase T you will never match the capabilities of a modern manufacturing plant.
So with your statement of quality over quantity. You're saying a student who gets better information and how they are taught would be better, but what good is information if you don't get time to understand it fully, what good is it if the teacher doesn't get more time with the students to understand the students more, and see the students mistakes and show them where they messed up. Also students are already being taught well with great amount of information and teachers working with their students a lot.
Me as a student who hasn't been gone from school not that long ago. I know I learned more from my classmates than the teacher because of 1 factor group work and sharing how we got to the answer. With more classmates the chance of this is greater and will allow the other students see where they could improve. After that the students can ask the teacher where they messed up at and ask for the teach to explain what happened. This brings it back to the whole thing about smaller classes.
We are in school to learn not just from the teacher, but also from one another. Quality is good and well, but if there is no time with it all. Its no better than not even learning the work. A lot of students needs more time with the work from what I have seen. A lot of students don't study outside of school and having more time in school will make sure they are learning.
You're right, it will give them more opportunities. You underestimate the power of a good teacher.
You're overestimating your ideas. What good is power of a good teacher without time to understand the students more. Some students need more time with the teachers than others, but don't always get that time. Regardless of how good the teacher is if there isn't enough time what good can a good teacher do. Yes if a good teacher in a smaller class can focus on each student more, but you're forgetting each student learns and takes in information differently which causes less time for others.
This world is imperfect and no matter how good a teacher is or how small a class can get. There will always something that goes against it.
Smaller class, huge amount of students=lack of "good" teachers
Good teacher, a lot of students who need a big amount of attention=not enough time
Also something I forgot to say. A good middle size class with a decent teacher allows other students to help students who don't fully understand the material and allows the teacher to work with other students also. So a smaller class won't do much, but slow down the class a bit more and burn more time so less time with students would be placed into effect.
With more time not only does the teacher get more time with the students, but other students can help each other more AND get help from the teacher after that. It brings in more time for studying, understanding, gaining help, and even socializing which is a big thing we need in the future.
So with what I said I think having more time in school is a smart way to have more effective learning.
Also sorry if my grammar sucks and stuff I have never been too bright in that area =X.
How about increasing teacher pay to attract well-qualified people that would otherwise work in the private sector
I'm sorry, but this statement is so false it ain't even funny. Increasing pay won't do nothing, but attract more greedy teachers who are there for the money not helping the students..... Another thing the teachers who actually stay are the ones who actually care for the students and actually wants to be there to TEACH not for the money. Unless those teachers are having hard time making money and thats the only way they can.
Well-qualified people? I think you are really not looking at the big picture of the school system. If they aren't well qualified as you say they wouldn't of gotten the job in the first place. The school system just doesn't take whoever into the system. They actually want their students to achieve and gain something out of all this. Its not the teachers fault they lack TIME with their students to help them become smarter.....
Increasing someone's pay or offering someone a bigger pay won't do anything for the students only the teachers. The teachers will look at the money and teach just enough like they always do. While there are teachers who were already there even with their pay cut and stuff that does the same or more since they are actually there to TEACH something more.
With the system as is, maybe, but you have to be analytical and creative to solve this sort of a problem. Like most Americans, you just don't seem that interested in perusing those thought processes to come up with solutions. Here's one: Using one teacher for two classrooms. Each class is four hours a day, for a total of eight working hours for the teacher. That was off the top of my head.
I do agree they do need to think of more ideas, but its not the teachers its the students thats the problem.... If students get more time to understand and actually study they wouldn't have problems. So the idea of adding more time to school was thought of.
Having 1 teacher teach 2classes? Do you know how much work that is? And how much time you remove from other subjects? That wouldn't work out as well as you thought. 8hrs of the day when you can have more teachers teach more subjects in the same amount of time. In the end with this idea of yours would you be forced to have more than 24hrs of school just for one class.
Offer up a source proving the article wrong. Otherwise you're just talking out your ass.
Prove your article is fully true with actual content/facts? Relic has already said "The article provides no context/source to their claim of their facts."
We can go on with this all day if you are going to be asking this.
You do realize that right now a majority of teachers in America come from the bottom of the barrel because anyone worth their salt is going directly to the private sector after graduation, right? Step one is paying teachers more so the job attracts genuine talent. If you don't so that, then you're right: Smaller classes do no good.
Paying more will mean you have to reduce the amount of teachers also. Most teachers who are in America who still have their job right now are teachers who CARE and actually are there to teach..... Like I said pay don't do nothing, but bring in greedy teachers who want the money not to be there to actually teach. They aren't from the bottom of the barrel just because you say they are or other people say they are. If they were they would lose their jobs especially with how strict education is. Also with our economy where is this money we are going to be paying the teachers with? All that would do is raise taxes more and you would still have the same problems as you started since most of the teachers will be the ones who are greedy for the big pay not really educating the students.
Like I said it ain't the teachers its the students. A lot of students lack time to understand and study and get to know their work. A lot of students don't use their time outside of school for education. A lot of students are lazy to do their work. If you added more time into school it makes sure they are using time to study and learn. Also gives time for them to understand it. Most students just needs more help thats it. Has nothing to do with the way teachers teach or else you would of seen a lot of students failing and flunking more than they should be.
