Something that has been always a concern for me about my classes is the fact that I constantly plan them in teacher centered model. In the class we had today with Professor Gavin I started a reflection about my own work as a teacher and my planning, in my state there in Brazil, we teachers are way too much overloaded, I have close to 720 students, It creates a huge amount of work to be done daily, and it always made me choose I teacher-centered way to teach, I imagined that this way would be easier to deal and control the classes, but today I got a different point o view, Gavin made see a different perspective. A student centered class would save me much more energy and would gave me a much better result. I will start planing my classes that way ASAP.
It is a little to do with large classes but it can be done with some imagination. Try to think of ways to use the activities we are all giving you with larger groups. Just about anything can be modified to fit different groups of students
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