C4T Post

I had the pleasure of reading Larry Ferlazzo blog over the last two weeks. On August 29th, Mr. Ferlazzo made post about an organization planting trees at the World Trade Center site in memory of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The post was titled “Life Returns to Ground Zero 9/11” He added the article about this memorial to his list of “Best Sites to Teach About 9/11”. In short, I responded to his post by commenting that the entire concept of planting trees to represent those who died on 9/11 was a great symbolic idea. Most importantly, students learning about this project will discover the true meaning of a memorial and the impact the tragedy had on this country.

In the next post on September 12th, Mr. Ferlazzo made a post about class size. His comments were that a he has a large class in an IB class but if he had the same amount of students in his 9th grade English class, we would go nuts. My response was class size does matter, especially in secondary schools. Students would benefit from the smaller class size by getting more one on one time with the teacher. Furthermore, teachers could benefit because a smaller class would be easier to manage than a large class. Most importantly, college students are adults and are expected to be responsible, with that in mind I think the college student would be able to handle a large classroom.