Please rate the idea from zero to ten!

Overall, I think it’s a great idea for 100 students to find more study partners and friends among themselves.

    • snooggums@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Yeah, that’s why universities have lectures for people who already know how to do most of their learning on their own while children’s class sizes favor more reasonable teacher to student ratios of like 20 and learning suffers when there are more.

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    So the teacher has to prepare 6-8 different lesson plans every day and be knowledgeable enough and comfortable enough to teach every subject themselves?

    All while trying to keep 100 kids focused and on task?

    0 out of 10.

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    0 More friend possibilities, but also much more bullying, because no teacher would be able to work reasonably with such a large collective. The teacher would be totally overpowered by the students, so the quality of the education would be minimal.

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    1 month ago

    If discussing 1:100 there is no individual attention, so why not 1:1,000 or 1:100,000 or just YouTube videos one can watch at their own pace.

    In my college lectures of 1:200, there were still separate sessions of 20 students or fewer, led by grad students working for the professor, to offer more individualized help. If that doesn’t happen and it’s just a lecturer talking to a crowd, the ratio is irrelevant.

    0/10

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    In college, I had classes with a bigger ratio. 1:300, 1:400. It can be done, but they had grad students help with grading.

    5/10. Not good, not bad, it’s just a fact of life.

    For younger kids? 0-2 out of 10. They need the structure.

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    1 month ago

    the teacher will be fine, if the goal is just lecturing. students, on the other hand, will need more that sheer willpower if they want to absorb anything lectured.

    i think the sweet spot should be lesser than 40 as I had my struggles learning in a class of 40ish.

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    1 month ago

    Do you know anything about what makes an effective school? Smaller class sizes is good schools 101.

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    1 month ago

    ideally it would be tailored to the student. money being no object, those lacking self regulation or other issues requiring greater guidance should be able to receive those services while those more suited to self-teaching could be given those opportunities.

    but we dont value education