When I had the opportunity to go and student teach I learned Illinois allows fifteen students to be supervised by one teacher. I believe his is insane. When I was teacher there was three teachers if I count myself and only nine students. I do not think I would have been able to teach just the nine by myself let alone 15 like the state allows.
When you have children with special needs in your classroom their needs are not all the same. Also if you are in a classroom with special needs students and students without special needs they are ALL learning at different level.
If you have an activity easy so the lower learning kids are able to follow alone the faster learning kids may be bored and cause problems. Same as if you have an activity to hard for the lower learning kids they may become frustrated and cause problems.
With more then one teacher you can break the students into smaller groups to help the children more efficiently!
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17 years ago
I agree with that law too as long as we have enough teaching resources! Hope China would have such a law:)
ReplyDeleteDoes China not have a limit?
ReplyDelete~*~Sherry~*~
you are so right! i don't agree to that law either....
ReplyDeleteThis seems very strange that this is the law. I don't agree with it at all.
ReplyDeleteYea evelyne kinha and Leigh, when I was student teaching I was told its the law. I was so shocked. That day there was 9 kids 15 would be way to hard. I wounder how they thought of the number 15 thats big.
ReplyDelete~*~Sherry~*~
No, although each school will have its own rules to set the limits. But with the large population in China, we usually have much larger classes.
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