Advantages Of A Large Class

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Large classes can be both challenging and rewarding to teach. The instructor, is often the center of attention and the expert in the room, which can be gratifying. Because it is often a passive experience, learning in a large class can also be difficult for students. They are provided with few opportunities to gauge their understanding during a lecture. Teachers don’t like large classes. You can struggle and complain, or you can make the commitment to make your large class as effective as a “normal” class. When a class is large, you have to overbuild your classroom management structures. You can do almost everything in large classes that you do in smaller ones; you can make them as student centered as smaller classes, but you have to do it …show more content…

For instance, you can give your students in-class and out-of-class assignments that ask them what they have learned and what questions they have about what they have learned. Rather than following your students’ failures, you can also track their successes, which are also your successes in teaching. You will find also that involving your students in their learning and in assessing how well they have done can save you time and reduce your …show more content…

Increase student responsibility. This leads to better learning and more class discipline. Because teachers do not have enough eyes to monitor every group of students, it is important to create routines in which students monitor themselves and students monitor (and support) each other. Assigning regular team leaders who liaise with the teacher, and assigning other team members ongoing roles in carrying out learning activities helps make everyone more accountable.
4. Emphasize positive behaviors to improve classroom management. By making abundantly clear to students what good behaviors are, by praising students who practice good behaviors, and by asking students to describe or model good behaviors when questionable behavior occurs, you create a class focused on good behavior. In large classes, building habits of good behavior creates a culture that tends to reduce behavioral disruptions. Too often, students don’t know what good behavior is, or how important it is. Focusing on good behavior also reduces the resentment that comes when the teacher must address problem behavior.
5. Peer and self-assessment are musts in large classes. Peer and self-assessment do not ask students to grade each other. They provide checklists to reinforce and implement practices that the teacher wants students to adopt. This way, when assignments arrive on the teacher’s desk, they have at least been reviewed twice and may have fewer errors to

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