I. Successful experiences of Europe, America, Japan and South Korea1. European and American casesJapan and South Korea also have experience in class size control. Japanese school education emphasizes refined training, and the class size is generally small. In a class of 15 students, teachers can pay close attention to students' psychological state and learning progress. Japanese educational circles believe that a small class size helps to create a good teacher-student relationship, which has a positive impact on students' physical and mental health and learning motivation. According to the survey, in small class teaching in Japan, students' participation in class has increased by nearly 30% compared with that in large class.
It is also more beneficial to the cultivation of students' artistic and sports specialties. Teachers can discover the potential of each student in painting, music and sports, and provide them with more opportunities for guidance and participation in related activities. For example, in music class, teachers can give each student more time to practice solo and improve their singing skills.When the class size is controlled at 15 students, teachers can know more about each student's learning situation. Teachers can provide targeted counseling for each student's weak points of knowledge. For example, in mathematics teaching, teachers may only explain the knowledge points in a large class, but in a class of 15 students, teachers can find each student's problems in algebra, geometry and other different sectors, so as to explain the problem-solving ideas in a personalized way.This class size is also convenient to carry out inquiry learning. Every student has more opportunities to participate in discussions and experiments, and it is no longer a few students who dominate classroom interaction. In science class, 15 students can be divided into several groups to carry out experimental exploration, and each student can operate the instrument, observe the experimental phenomena and put forward his own opinions. This is helpful to improve students' scientific inquiry ability and innovative thinking ability.
In terms of educational concept, teachers also need to adapt to this change from large class teaching to small class teaching. Teacher training is particularly important. Schools can organize teachers to participate in training courses in small class teaching and learn the methods and skills of small class teaching, such as how to carry out personalized teaching and how to organize efficient group activities, so as to improve teachers' teaching ability to adapt to the new teaching mode.One of the biggest challenges to control the class size to 15 students is the allocation of educational resources. We need more hardware resources such as classrooms and teaching equipment, and we also need to increase the number of teachers. In this regard, the government can increase investment in education. For example, some governments in Europe and America support school infrastructure construction and teacher recruitment through special education funds. For example, some state governments in the United States will provide funds for building new classrooms or transforming existing classrooms to meet the needs of small class teaching according to the school's small class plan.Drawing lessons from Europe, America, Japan and South Korea: Controlling the class size of primary and secondary schools and universities to 15 students to improve the quality of teaching and training.
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Strategy guide 12-13
Strategy guide
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