[neact] Re: How do you handle Large class sizes in chemistry?
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Hello
This being the beginning of a new school year, brings up a question that is happening at our school, and I suspect other schools. Due to increasing enrollments and budget constraints, the class sizes are increasing. This year I will have 3 sections of chemistry with 28 students.
Chemistry teachers are aware that 24 students represent the class size that should be set as the maximum that allows teachers to safely supervise the laboratory experience. So does anyone have suggestions on how to handle the larger class size and still include the extremely valuable laboratory experience?
Some questions that I would like to raises are
1) How do you educate administration to the importance of the laboratory experience as well as safety in the laboratory (including the liability to teachers and the school is something goes wrong) They are concerned about class size in general, but do not have any training in the sciences.
2) What do you do, as a teacher, with a large class size. For example, some demo’s and write up lab reports? If so which ones?
3) I know of some teachers who have sent letters to parents stating that larger class sizes make it impossible to perform lab experiments safety, so the class will not include lab experiments. What do you think about the best way to communicate with the parents? I would assume there may be administration fall out from this type of communication. What is the best way to handle this (and still keep your position) Thank you, for taking the time to read this. If you have any past experiences, or suggestions , could you please respond?
Richard Boucher.
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Hello
This being the beginning of a new school year, brings up a question that is happening at our school, and I suspect other schools. Due to increasing enrollments and budget constraints, the class sizes are increasing. This year I will have 3 sections of chemistry with 28 students.
Chemistry teachers are aware that 24 students represent the class size that should be set as the maximum that allows teachers to safely supervise the laboratory experience. So does anyone have suggestions on how to handle the larger class size and still include the extremely valuable laboratory experience?
Some questions that I would like to raises are
1) How do you educate administration to the importance of the laboratory experience as well as safety in the laboratory (including the liability to teachers and the school is something goes wrong) They are concerned about class size in general, but do not have any training in the sciences.
2) What do you do, as a teacher, with a large class size. For example, some demo’s and write up lab reports? If so which ones?
3) I know of some teachers who have sent letters to parents stating that larger class sizes make it impossible to perform lab experiments safety, so the class will not include lab experiments. What do you think about the best way to communicate with the parents? I would assume there may be administration fall out from this type of communication. What is the best way to handle this (and still keep your position) Thank you, for taking the time to read this. If you have any past experiences, or suggestions , could you please respond?
Richard Boucher.