Open-plan teaching
Sir, — As parents who have taken an active interest in education, we feel that we must give support to open-plan teaching, as it is being successfully practised at St Albans School. In group teaching, staff plan together and by so doing can use each other’s strengths to the children’s advantage. Children learn to work in a community atmosphere and there are opportunities for parents to share in their education. There are some children whom this type of teaching does not suit, but there are children who cannot learn in some single-teacher situations. We are most fortunate at St Albans in having a staff who are almost 100 per cent happy with open-plan teaching and are making it work. We who have had older children taught under the single teacher method can confirm that the younger children’s progress in open-plan compares favourably. — Yours, etc.
R. M. JAMES, CHAIRMAN, St Albans School Committee August 8, 1977.
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