Most Brisbane classrooms aren’t ‘overcrowded’ because they don’t break targets, but what is the perfect class size?
It’s not always true that smaller is better when it comes to how many kids are in a school classroom, but an expert says Queensland’s current targets are too relaxed.
How many students should be in each classroom? Classroom targets are 25 and 28 in Queensland, for different year groups.That is actually the minority, and no high schools made the fail list, but University of Queensland education expert Professor Robyn Gillies argues the targets are too high to begin with.
Hattie said teachers rarely changed how they taught when they moved from larger to smaller classes, but if they changed how they taught to make the most of having fewer students, the effects would be larger.
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