Class Management In The Context Of Small-Class Oriented Education

Small-Class Oriented Education (SMOE) has developed rapidly as an advanced education form and education idea in the world since 1960. With the implementation of China's family planning policy, population growth of urban and economically developed areas has been better controlled. From the beginning of 1990, SMOE has appeared and developed progressively in some developed cities of China. As the narrowing of the class amount, education subject, education background and interaction between teachers and students have changed. Knowing the changes, especially the change of teachers' management, will enhance to improve the education ideas and make the teacher's education action more adaptive, targeted, and will promote the advantages of SMOE and student's personality development. SMOE will be an inevitable trend of education in the future; the researching of it will be more practical.The researching of Small-Size-Class overseas focused on the relation of narrowing the class size and students achievement but the researching in China focused on primary school education, theoretical analysis and a summary of teaching experiments and experience, lack of the studies on Small-Size-Class management. Currently, researching on junior school SMOE and management is still a new issue; it has an important practical guiding significance. So, I focused on SMOE in Shanghai Fudan Vanke Experimental Private school, analyzed the causes and found solutions, its purpose is to improve the class management strategy system, enhance the effectiveness of education and better management of small sized classes.There are four chapters.Chapter I is introduction. The background of this study, significance, concepts and the overall design of research are described.Chapter II is overview of Small-Size-Class management. The domestic and foreign-related theory, research and practice are compared.Chapter III is analysis of the Small-Size-Class management of the case school. Through questionnaires and interviews the positive results are summarized and the main shortcomings are revealed, such as: teachers' ability to adapt the education idea needs to be improved; lack of understanding of the core concept etc. These thoughts and interpretation have important guiding significance in changing the class management.Chapter IV is advices on Small-Size-Class management. The writer abstract class management recommendations from Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and "Individualized Education" including: Systematization of class goals, humanization of class rules, diversification of class evaluations, diversification of class activities, green class environment and improvement of parents and teachers interaction.