Crowded Conditions: Interesting

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I found this article extremely interesting. I personally have a real problem with teachers being subjected to situations like this. Teaching is not an easy job and doubling up the students in half the space doesn't help.

I recently visited my daughter's classroom at her new school. I found the classroom to be much smaller than at our old school with just as many students. I also found that in this classroom there is less "team" oriented work going on which is making for a much more competitive and serious environment.

At her old school the teacher divided the class into groups. Throughout the year those groups would work together on lots of different assignments as well as the children helping each other with individual assignments. The students seemed to bond with each other and respect for each other became paramount.

I really wonder if these overcrowded small and cramped situations make that kind of interworking environment impossible? I think it's really sad that as a teacher you're being asked to teach so many and yet have no help. That's why I wonder if the team scenario might be a workable approach.

-- posted by Willow4