Student Teacher Ratio

Somehow most people believe that they have outsourced their kids education to the school and the teacher. This is a wrong attitude. Teachers by the very economics of teaching cannot give 1 to 1 support to kids. A parent generally has only a few kids. A teacher can have kids ranging from 20 to 60 in a class. Some classes even have up to 80–100 students in certain parts of the world.

CREDIT : http://www.americasquarterly.org/charticles/charticle_making-the-grade_fall2010.html

Thus it is logistically difficult for a teacher to provide a lot of individual attention to the kid. Only kids who are able to impress the teacher are able to get individualised attention. The teacher is also held accountable for the coverage of the curriculum. Thus there is this emphasis on completing the curriculum as soon as possible. This degrades the quality of education.

Efforts have been made to get a good teacher to student ratio. A good teacher to student ratio is 20–25 students to 1 teacher. Unfortunately it makes teaching expensive. Thus the status quo cannot solve the teaching problem in schools.

We need some other way of solving this problem. I will be discussing them in next few posts.

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