than the rest of the class continually, over the years. She came to sit next to me on the other side of me from Amelia back in Grade 7, in primary school, having been placed into third place by the teacher. She was quite clever, and was a year younger than everyone else. Fun and love exuded from her, and her constant enjoyment of so much. I didn’t pressure her. I attended to my by now boring serious business of attending to endless stuff we do in classroom subjects. Endless stuff. I think we just endured whatever we had to do or put up with, for many years, and even that year, not knowing there was anything better, or easier, or more fun, or more inspiring, back then. Maybe there was no survey of the children’s real feelings and responses….there was none. I imagine there needs to be surveys of children’s real responses to their studied subjects, how to deal with the experience of the classroom and so on. Its not a matter of popularity votes as far as teachers go, or as far as the individual school goes. It is something to do with teachers right dealing with subjects, students and teaching so that it can be a positive experience for all the children. Maybe its something to do with curricula models. ‘All of the children’ being the approach which is needed here…..particularly the young and older children right up to the more maturing and more responsible early teen ages. Children know when they are having an interesting time, or when they are happy, or when they are sleepy, or when they cannot relate to a teacher or understand what they are being asked to do. Survey everything, and arrive at good models of doing things, even in shorter time spans if needed….or covering many weeks over one theme or topic for an hour or less per day.
Still, I think you’ll find over the many millennia to come that 5 students per teacher instead of the former 40 students per teacher or classroom, and nowadays the 20 or so students per classroom and teacher will the model that will be popular with every child and plenty of teachers or assisting parents. It will also bring good psychological results, as well as educational results….. something which is really good for the children and teachers to go through.
Anita Punyanitya 2016
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Dedication:
I met some interesting girls during two particular important grades in Primary School in Perth city centre. There were lots of girls to contemplate and meet. It was a Catholic convent girls' school. It was in the 1960s right up to 1972. Then I left and went to my older brother's local State Senior High School for the final two years.....also meeting intersting people there.
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