Re:Why Education Startups Do Not Succeed (2011)
by rahimnathwani on Thursday November 16, 2017 @05:53AM
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I agree that:
- For language learning, total study time should be a multiple of classroom time. (From personal experience, I've found 10:3 to work pretty well.)
- Teaching can be very effective in groups of 1:10 or 1:20
- Classroom time should not be spent on introducing new material
However:
- For language learning in particular, I don't believe that 'let the students study and then watch them...' approach is best. If you're doing 1:1 or 1:2, you can actively manage the learning process by asking the student questions in the target language, and (for example) making them reply using newly-acquired grammatical structures.
- You've made the point that teacher:student ratio isn't the only important factor (agreed!) but haven't made a strong case that it's insignificant, or addressed my question about whether 1:1 is better (assuming money no object) than all other ratios.
- For language learning, total study time should be a multiple of classroom time. (From personal experience, I've found 10:3 to work pretty well.)
- Teaching can be very effective in groups of 1:10 or 1:20
- Classroom time should not be spent on introducing new material
However:
- For language learning in particular, I don't believe that 'let the students study and then watch them...' approach is best. If you're doing 1:1 or 1:2, you can actively manage the learning process by asking the student questions in the target language, and (for example) making them reply using newly-acquired grammatical structures.
- You've made the point that teacher:student ratio isn't the only important factor (agreed!) but haven't made a strong case that it's insignificant, or addressed my question about whether 1:1 is better (assuming money no object) than all other ratios.