sah0618's blog

Being my first blog, please forgive if it seems amateur!  I am an afterschool teacher currently studying to be an elementary school teacher.  It seems to me that if a school is overcrowded, like the one I am at, that there is less play and less interactive study than at a school with fewer students.  This may be an obvious observation but none the less it needs attention.  Students suffer in more ways than one when it comes to having larger class sizes.  I feel like teachers don't think they can have "controlled" chaos in their classrooms if there are too many students.  They feel the need to assign book work, where the children stay in their desks all day and rarely do interactive work, whether on the computer or in centers, or another form of "play" learning