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Large class sizes make it harder for teachers to be heard
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS - Bigger class sizes in the Minneapolis Schools are prompting some teachers to use microphones to be heard.
Susan Saly has 38 students in her fourth grade class. She wears a headset-style microphone so her students can hear without Saly having to strain her voice.
Saly is one of at least five teachers at Jefferson School who uses voice amplification. She says she's also put tennis ball on the legs of chairs and desks in her classroom to minimize noise.
Other teachers say the voice amplification helps students who are learning English. It can also put students at ease, because teachers no longer need to raise their voices to be heard.
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This is so true, from a teacher's point of view and a student's.
While I was studying in Sudan, we had a huge classroom of about 180 girls. The poor teachers did not have mics at the time so they had to yell in order for the girls at the back to hear. The really sad thing was that they weren't even listening, busy talking about the latest gossips, which made it hard for those who wanted to learn. It was a constant battle for the teachers and students. Half the class time was spent telling the girls to shut up.
As a teacher, when the classes are large you really do have to project your voice, especially with kids because you can lose their attention quite easily when there is a classroom of 30+ (or even 25). It becomes a strain on the voice. My sister has a permanent problem now with her voice. The doctor told her from now she has to use a mic when teaching or she will lose her voice. Not to mention having a large class cuts on the quality of education and teacher student relationship.
Peace
MINNEAPOLIS - Bigger class sizes in the Minneapolis Schools are prompting some teachers to use microphones to be heard.
Susan Saly has 38 students in her fourth grade class. She wears a headset-style microphone so her students can hear without Saly having to strain her voice.
Saly is one of at least five teachers at Jefferson School who uses voice amplification. She says she's also put tennis ball on the legs of chairs and desks in her classroom to minimize noise.
Other teachers say the voice amplification helps students who are learning English. It can also put students at ease, because teachers no longer need to raise their voices to be heard.
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This is so true, from a teacher's point of view and a student's.
While I was studying in Sudan, we had a huge classroom of about 180 girls. The poor teachers did not have mics at the time so they had to yell in order for the girls at the back to hear. The really sad thing was that they weren't even listening, busy talking about the latest gossips, which made it hard for those who wanted to learn. It was a constant battle for the teachers and students. Half the class time was spent telling the girls to shut up.
As a teacher, when the classes are large you really do have to project your voice, especially with kids because you can lose their attention quite easily when there is a classroom of 30+ (or even 25). It becomes a strain on the voice. My sister has a permanent problem now with her voice. The doctor told her from now she has to use a mic when teaching or she will lose her voice. Not to mention having a large class cuts on the quality of education and teacher student relationship.
Peace
Comments on this journal
Alot of it has to do with discipline and how interesting the teacher makes each lesson too. Teaching is definitely an aquired skill and it involves alot of adaptation and I think performance too. You gotta be very interesting and make learning fun too. If you know how to keep your students attention and keep them thinking and challenged that's a large part of it.
I definitely coulda used a mic or megaphone on some of my tougher days. But the thing is the louder you talk the louder the students can get too.