Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g0VFEmn16734; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:14:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:14:48 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <14f.822c099.298ab8dd@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AndresMuro@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:7099] Re: Class Size, Cost of ESL Per Student X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10021 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_14f.822c099.298ab8dd_boundary" Status: O Content-Length: 4177 Lines: 89 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Regarding class size, I think that it varies with what teachers may do. I encourage our teachers to do a lot of group work with groups of 4 to 5 people. With this approach, classes with 20 to 25 students work well. The purposes of group work are: 1. Students do the work and not you 2. Students interact with each other 3. The responsibility of coming up with solutions fall on the students and not the teacher. 4. You can work with students of different levels. 5. Teaches can walk by each group an pay individualized attention to specific student concerns rather than speaking to the entire class. 6. etc One of the criticisms I hear about group work is that the students that understand something do all the work and the students that don't, don't. To solve this you identify a student in each group that may have to explain to you how to do something or master some problem. If you know that someone is having a hard time grasping a concept, you tell the group that after some time this student will have to explain the concept to you. The group will work very hard to help the the student master the concept. Andres In a message dated 1/31/2002 7:14:59 AM Mountain Standard Time, banerjee@emmanuel.edu writes: > Sometime back I had sent a message asking if anyone has some information > on what the most effective class sizes are at different levels of ESL and > different class compositions in terms of ethnicity. I also am curious > about how much it costs to deliver ESL per student at the different > levels. Any literature, references and personal experiences will be most > useful. Thanks in advance. Ms. Gouri Banerjee > >
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