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Re: 小 班 教 學 不 便 等 於 優 質 教 育
Kinda join it late on this heated but interesting topic.
A lot of valuable and different opinions shared in this thread like those from ykwong and alexhui. I would try to pour in some of my views by not repeating what's been said priviously.
In a nutshell, I think the question needs to be rephrased as "What is the optimal size of a class to achieve best results in HK". Is it 40, 30 or 20? In HK, I think 30 is more realistic for teacher to remember all the names of the student and hopefully, the characters and abilities of every students. The essence is that even in a class, optimal class size can be more specifically address individual students ability and hence design special learning process for the individual kids. For example, in my son's class, reading is largely encouraged but the school does not force kids to be able to read books of certain level of difficulty by the end of term. What they do is they will let each children borrow books to read starting from the lowest level and monitor the individual's progress, and the teacher will raise the level of one kid only if he is ready. Some may start to pick up later but may be able to catch up a long way by the end of term, some may advance to a much higher level. At the end of the term, most of the class can read relatively difficult picture books. My son is now starting to try to read chapter books.
Bad teacher, small class - NOT WORKING at all! The whole process of reform is politically driven and is ugly as hell. My conspiracy theory is that - Why don't British don't use ESF system for HK residents and instead, they use the current approach? Answer is local education system in general tends to raise kids with good discipline but at the same time lack of creativity and therefore easier to ride and manipulate by the British!
Back to the main issue, ideally, in order to implement optimal class size, teacher reform is inevitable. The root of the problem is the quality of teachers, not class size, which can be dealt with later! In HK, majority of students with no choice to enter Univeristies will opt for studying in education institution end up being a teacher. In Taiwan, those with good academic results will choose education as a profession as in USA and Canada which Degree in Education is offered at most Universities and is respected by every one like any other discipline.
If teacher's qualtiy can be improved, In HK, I think optimal size class is beneficial. At the time being, the quality of teacher is the big obstacle to overcome.
Compare to N America, we have an advantage since parents in HK are more concerned and actively involved with child's education than those American parents. Can't you see Chinese in N. America usually perform well compare with Caucasians? Of course, parents must have an open mind in education and ready to throw away the old bag containing the traditional local education system approach.
A lot of parents seems to ignore a very important issue which I think is not unusual since HK education system is exam result oriented and we are brought up that way too. Other than academic results, what abour other values? There are other important qualities of a child's education e.g. creativity, self-esteem, confidence, problem solving , independence, self starting etc etc which have not been touched on and these are way more important than merely eying on academic achievements! I look back in my past and see how I was brought up and I think I could have done better. Well now we can only hope that our children can receive a better education. ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMNT IS ONLY A SMALL PART OF THE WHOLE PACKAGE!!!
My son is now studying in IS and I can definitely see the benefits of it. Truly it is $$$$ and the quality of the teachers is very high indeed ($$$ also!). My son was not a very independent child but has improved significantly and could have been worse if he took on the local education approach. Next year I will send him to DBSPD and I'm still worrying about the impact although I have heard a lot of good things about it. Class size seems ideal to me being not too big. Cross my fingers..
Conclusion is, to implement optimal class, there are things to resolve (this is no easy task and may not work out in the end):-
improve teacher's quality;
cut the political crap;
better use of resources (not necessary mean more $$);
parents willing to accept the fact that his/her child may drop in academic results but as a result enjoying a gain in self-esteem, be more self-starting and more creative etc.
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