Need for Small-Class Teaching for
Primary and Secondary Schools in Hong Kong
The importance of education cannot be denied as it has a great effect on the future of the people and, most particularly, the country. Indeed, education helps with the outcomes of various situations. The manner in which learning is being enforced in particular areas are thus crucial in determining the results of the education. Being one of the fact-moving areas around the world, Hong Kong also has to focus on determining the needs of the students. Many schools within the area continue to produce class sizes that are mostly considered as large, with around 40 students to one class at a time. There are several disadvantages to such method, one of which is the lack of attention that the teachers may have on each of the student and thus lessening the productivity of the students themselves. The problems that the teacher may earn may also be increased especially with the number of the students that they teach, however, a definite advantage to this is that it allows more students to be instructed, even with mere rudiments of teaching.
Indeed, small-class teaching will surely be helpful for any school. It may improve the methods of learning and the methods of teaching, and may also result to more focused and personalized teaching. It is not needed, surely, but it may be a great improvement. What the schools and the Bureau of Education should question should not, however, be on whether it will be advantageous or not, rather the question should be whether the country can afford it. Such move will require several changes within the education board, not to mention the need to ensure that there is thus also the need to determine if there are enough professionally-trained teachers who will be able to manage personalized focus on the students. In determining this, the focus on whether small-class teaching may be needed can already be studied.
Hong Kong has grown over the years, not only with the economy and the business, but also the population. In the idea of continuing the success of the province, there is the need to provide better education in a smaller time, and such will be achieved through identifying the individual ideas and abilities of the children; these may be done through small-class teaching, which allows the children and the teachers to establish a marker of their success and improvement. As was stated, however, the growth of Hong Kong’s population may render the small-class teaching method as null if there are no teachers to provide.
Instead of focusing on the need of Hong Kong to provide for small-class teaching or with continuing with the current strategy, I propose that the Bureau of Education mostly focus first in providing teachers to every province and every schools—and not merely teachers who have knowledge but the skills to teach their students according to the needs of the business and research establishments. In doing so, then we can talk about the small-class teaching needs of the community. There is the need for more skilled teachers to teach small-class teaching methods to produce the real skills of the students. In this, we will be able to establish a developing Hong Kong and also look forward to a more mature development of the Bureau of Education in the future.
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