CLASS-SIZE: Just some thoughts for Department of Education (DepEd) School Think-tanks, leaders, heads etc. who have CONTROL over how school's fund and human capitals or resources are created or managed. Bottom line CLASS-SIZE. Are there specific DepEd policies, memoranda, or orders pertaining to directly or indirectly to CLASS-SIZE - TEACHERS RATIO in schools that are also related to teaching jobs, ancillary functions, school building program, class programming, etc.? What are they? Feel free to comment here if you know some we could relate with. If there are NONE, there should be :)
1) Number of classrooms related with class-size Hypothesis- More classrooms mean lesser students in each classroom Solutions- Build more classrooms (long term, we have been doing this) AND/OR Do morning and afternoon shifting of classes (short term solution but generally works, but great planning and courage needed)
2) Number of teachers (including the yearly hiring) related with class size H1 - More teachers in school mean lesser class size H2 - More teachers not teaching mean more teachers' time do to school support related job, research, etc. Note: School programming can be done with ease, we need NOT to bother who is UNDERLOAD for they can function other ancillary school works like home visitations, school reports support, school community project aid, paper advising, LIS manager, tech support, name them etc. Have we achieved this as we hire more teachers? Other Possible effects - availability of back up teachers if some teachers do work related functions outside school (like attend division meeting, seminars, write-shop, etc.)
3) Teachers' job satisfaction/happiness with class size H – Teachers’ satisfaction/happiness increases as class size decreases - Imagine managing 50 individuals in the classroom compare to 25 to 30.
4) Students' learning/performance with class size H – You can continue the logic here. Say (Learning/performance increases as class size decreases)
Most if not all of the hypotheses here were confirmed/proven in some studies abroad. I believe they are also applicable in the Philippine context with some contextualization and needs assessment. Think about it. I wonder what internal and external stakeholders have to say?
Dear Reynald
His observation is very consistent, specifically the third point: Teachers' happiness increases as the size of the class decreases.
Absolutely agree
The satisfaction of the teacher is a condition to ensure the effectiveness of educational results
"Morbodidactogenic relations"
In spanish: Relaciones morbodicatogénicas.
There is no accurate translation into English, at least I do not know it.
But there is more information in:
Chapter FUNDAMENTALS OF THE PREPARATION FOR THE SELF-CARE OF TEACHERS 'HEALTH
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