Class Size Does Matters When Students Are Being Suspended Due to It!
Do you think class size matters? Do you think the
GCPS school board representatives effectively address class size issues and
concerns?
Parents and stakeholders are asking question and they
should. Parents are our students and teachers biggest advocate. We need parents
to help ensure that school board and school leaders are creating school cultures
that empower the learning of all students.
Residents have expressed their concerns on many occasions
to our county commissioners and school board member(s) on an individual basis
or through community organizations like Keep Grayson Great. Concerns include
how our ever - growing population will affect our schools and our children’s
quality of learning.
Large class sizes and retaining highly qualified teachers
have been quite the discussion among community members. Our school board
members cannot continue to ignore this if we as a community want our children
to have access to high-quality education.
“Researchers have come to a general consensus
that smaller class sizes produce positive social, emotional, and academic
results.”
However, we also must understand that we need to provide
more training and professional development for our teachers. To reap the
full benefits of smaller class sizes, teachers must be appropriately trained,
or class sizes will not render its potential effectiveness.
“Class size matters because it allows the teacher greater
proximity to the students, and thus more opportunities for one-to-one and
small-group instruction. The one constant in any room with smaller numbers of
students is simply the proximity of the teacher to all of her students?”
This coupled with developing and retaining highly qualified
teachers will help us towards attaining a high-quality education for our
children.
See more here: https://www.hmhco.com/blog/class-size-matters
The original post
was inspired by the voice of a parent. Taxpayers (parents, guardians, teachers,
etc.) have voiced on many occasions their concerns about how fast our Gwinnett
County population is growing due to the building of single - family homes, town
homes and apartments.
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