On Sat, 1 Feb 2014 22:04:32 Daniel Jitnah wrote:

> What it meant was that 1 teacher could focus on delivering the

> curriculum material to the class as a whole, while the other would focus

> on the classroom management stuff and also could provide 1-1 interaction

> to some extent.  It meant that the curriculum delivery was less

> interrupted by other classroom activities,  And the teachers would swap

> over the roles.  I think you could probably increase the student-teacher

> ratio at the same time. 2 teachers in the same room with twice the

> number of students are more effective that 2 teachers in 2 separate

> classrooms with 1/2 the number of students each!

One option that is being tried by some universities is to use video lectures to cover the material and then have the staff just do the 1:1 stuff.

There's no point in trying to get every teacher to give a great lecture on the topic while being interrupted when you can just get one of the best teachers the country to give a lecture in studio conditions and have the kids watch it on a tablet with headphones. Then the kids can pause and rewind as necessary and ask questions of the teacher in the room. Also if most of the class are watching the video then when one student asks questions it doesn't take time away from others' learning, this saves time and also encourages students who are less confident about asking questions.

The first thing that we should do is reject all the ideas that are based on 1900's technology and look for ways of doing things better with modern technology.

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