Figure 1.--One of the great advantages of private schools like prep schools is the small class sizes which afford individual attention.
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Figure 1.--One of the great advantages of private schools like prep schools is the small class sizes which afford individual attention. |
One of the great advantages of private schools are small class sizes affording the teachers the ability to provide individual attention to their students. This varied from school to school, but all the schools had relatively small class sizes. We did not see anu classes with more than 25 children and classes were often smaller, commonly from 15-20 children. Scholarship classes were much smaller. These are class sizes that few teachers in the state system have the opportunity to experience. These small class sizes are especially critical for the younger children lear to read. Children experiencing problems are thus easilly identified and appropriate actions taken. Of course the class size also affected the activities that could be persued. Small classes provide teachers the flexibility to experiment with varied learning activities.
