Chapters 4 to 6 from The Flat World and Education caught my eye in many different ways. First, it talked about teacher quality and how it is important to higher students achievement rate. Teacher quality means teachers had great concept knowledge of the subject they are teaching, going through the teacher credential program, and furthering their own education. This surprised me because I feel that I am on the way to having all those boxes checked. I feel confident that I am on the right track to becoming a quality teacher. These chapters also stated that new school models help increase students’ achievement; my school is following those models. Another thing that I connected with was that our school has an AVID program and the staff does collaborations once a week. This is key to making a successful school.
Some other things that stuck out to me were that funding does not directly correlate to students’ achievement. The book said that money needs to be spent in the right way and that some schools were not doing so. This has a negative effect on student achievement and in return puts the school in a hole that is hard to get out of. Speaking of money, I found it really interesting that in some countries they pay for teachers to go school. This aspect makes them better quality teachers which gives the students a better education. The book got me thinking what the prefect class size is for me. I recall the book saying the perfect number of students per class is 18. This is surprising because teaching in California I have never heard of that. When I did my student teaching at Long Beach Poly High School, I had almost 50 students in some of my classes. I feel that my perfect number would be 20 students per class for physical education. I have observed this class size when I watched physical education classes being taught in Switzerland. What would be your preferred number of students per class?
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