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    How a healthy Student to Teacher Ratio can help our children

    While Indian schools have always had large numbers of students, the situation got particularly out of hand in the 1990s where it was not unheard of to have classrooms with close to 60 students. To make matters worse there was only one person playing a mentoring role for 60 students – the class teacher. This created generations of students who suffered from a curtailed amount of personal guidance in their formative years.
    International schools brought smaller classrooms into the environment of Indian schools. It became evident quite quickly that students began to develop better in these smaller classrooms. It is quite obvious that the lower student-to-teacher ratio benefited them and here lies the very crux of this article – how can your child gain a competitive advantage from a healthier ratio. Firstly we must differentiate between what we mean by a healthy ratio and a low ratio.
    Creating a healthy ratio within the concept of a low number of students per teacher is very crucial towards attaining the benefits of both a good amount of personal time with the teacher and the benefits of studying in a classroom of your peers. Most schools today have a ratio of about 10 students per teacher and while this seems to be ideal in theory it leaves little room to create a dynamic schedule where some students may need more personal guidance than others. RIMS International School and Junior College believes that the ideal ratio is 1 teacher per 5 students. Now we can move on to the benefits.

    1. Personalized Learning: While students benefit from a standardized curriculum that is tailor made for the tasks that the world offers them, they also have a variety of skills and ways to achieve their goals. It is important that a teacher can identify these differences so that they ensure that their students derive the most out of their learning experience. This is only possible with a low, healthy ratio so that the teacher can create a balance between the differences and the need to build on uniformity.

    2. Mental Strengthening: Students suffer from many forms of stress because of several different factors. Teachers in a healthy ratio environment are able to spend enough time with each student in order to understand their mental strengths and build on their weaknesses while enhancing their strengths. Such mentoring is very important; both for performance in school as well as in their future careers where stress and pressure builds and only the cool and calm survive and do well.

    3. Identifying Learning Difficulties: Similar to point one, a teacher in a healthy ratio environment is able to identify more accurately the students that may suffer from previously unidentified learning problems. This will allow them to talk to parents of these students and create an environment where the difficulty turns into an advantage.

    4. Competitive Confidence: Every classroom is competitive in some form or another, it's the way that human beings function. While competition is healthy for development, bad performances or unfulfilled personal goals can affect the confidence of students. In a smaller classroom, the teacher is able to speak to each child in order to understand their reaction to their performance and help them understand important character building traits that aid them in recovering from any loss of confidence.

    These are but some of the many ways in which a healthy student-to-teacher ratio is beneficial for your child. Ensuring both academic and mental progress and health creates an individual that is both secure in their mental makeup as well as confident in their competitiveness.

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    Teacher student ratio is an essential factor while choosing the school for taking up admission. The lesser ratio is good as your child will get individual attention and there will be a personalized learning environment which is more effective right from the tender age. It is also more secure, building student's confidence and competitiveness.

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    Really a good thought process Shivangi. I agree that a healthy teacher to student ratio can do wonders for a child, especially for average kid.Now schools are being commercialized and education system has become a money making business. There are more students in a classroom than the teacher can handle and this results in poor scores. Giving a personalized attention to each kid, will take awayu the fear of stideis from their minds and they will be at ease with their studies.

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    yes, this trend of smaller classrooms is catching on the new schools in Bangalore. Orchids for one has 1:20

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    Hi, a healthy student teacher ratio is very beneficial for our students as it might help our students to progress further. You can call a student-teacher ratio as the relationship between the number of students in the school to the number of teachers available and employed by the school. If the student teacher ratio is 10:1 then you can say that there are ten students in the class and one teacher to teach them. In such cases the less number of students the more teacher can individually pay attention to each child and I think this can help our children.

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    Shweta Kale's Avatar Member
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    The benefit of having a lower student-teacher ratio to our students is that they can receives individual attention from the teacher. They will get personal attention when the school has increased number of staff for support and instructions. When the instruction staff is increased the school can also use a wide variety of alternative instructional or configuration strategies. Our students can get personalised advisors and tutors which can help in growth of academic results. I feel this is really helpful for our child and if the child has any doubt it can be cleared out by the teacher by some personal attention and his problems can be easily solved.

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    In small communities students are paired with teachers and counsellors. They teach them specific learning and educate students properly and more effectively. Even if there is an average student-teacher ratio then it does not affect the attention paid to each children. In classes or tuitions also if there is lower student-teacher ratio then the teacher will be able to concentrate on each child properly. If students are less then teacher can also solve each students doubt clearly and easily and the children can also understand the concept easily without any problem. So yes lower teacher-student ratio is beneficial for our children.

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    In the school my child studies has a student-teacher ratio of 30:1 and I think they have lower strength of class as compares to other schools. The teacher in their school is able to pay attention to each child individually and the school has different teachers for different subjects so the strength of the teacher is also quite sufficient and I have never seen my child complaining about not understanding anything in school. Even if the students receive less marks the teachers personally look after the child and push them so that they are motivated to study properly and each concept is taught properly.

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    We have seen schools usually have large classes and a single teacher is not able to pay attention to each child and if compared to the large classes the smaller ratio classes have better academic results as compared to the larger classes. The teacher already has enough workload and increase in the children increases her work load and she is not able to give personal attention to everyone as that is not possible if there are too many children in the class. Schools earlier had a student-teacher ratio of about 60:1 and in this case it was impossible to cope up with everyone. Hence I feel lower ration is helpful for the children.

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    I believe that the fewer students per teacher, the more attention a teacher can give individually to each student, respectively, the more knowledge the student will receive. We had 35 people in the classroom and the attention of one teacher was not enough. it was difficult to understand the subject, therefore, when doing homework, all students used help proofreading service. It was very convenient, but did not add knowledge. I think that the best option is when there are 10-15 people in the group.
    Last edited by Patrik; 09-07-2020 at 08:02 PM.

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