14- Kennedy H.: Class Sizes Depend on the Teacher and Subject

A giant room of unruly talkative kids can be just as loud as a tight knit small group of students in one classroom. In my own experiences I’ve had many classes be really big and really small. And even as today as I walk from period to period, my classes differ and the vibe of the classroom, as certain teachers manage big and small class sizes to benefit their class and teaching. 

At the beginning of the year we all know our AP Language class was overflowing with students, some not even having desks for a bit, so another period was added and the room downsized a bit. But we still have a decent amount of students who are mostly familiar with each other and can be a bit chatty. But our teacher manages us and our bigger class size benefits our discussions with many perspectives when talking about arguments or theory ideas in Your Own Backyard podcast. 

My Precalculus and Kinesiology classes are very small, less then about 15 each. As a higher math class there is more needing to be focussed on and much less distraction with so much to learn. With a teacher with more expectations a smaller class allows us to joke sometimes but also collaborate in smaller teams on certain assignments and keep a quiet classroom. My Kinesiology class sometimes has many hands on discussions in sports medicine and our very small class size is prime to our teacher to be more interactive with these electives ideas. 

But my Spanish class is very large. Usually a small class size may benefit a language class to allow students to speak to each other more, but a large size is okay in our instance as our teacher is very organized and has expectations we know and work to meet, And our larger class size gave many students the opportunity to transfer in and some students have different backgrounds and places theyve traveled so when talking about culture there is much diversity.