What teachers do alter for individual students is instruction. As one teacher said, If a child is having problems, you can see it right away. You can take care of it then. You don't have to wait until they turn in their papers. . . It works a lot better for the children.
Teachers continue to structure, manage, and pace all activities.
The teacher gives information, asks questions, praises correct responses, and controls interactions with students in other ways. The students are largely passive in that their role is to listen and to follow the teacher's directions. It usually is not to engage in problem solving, creating, and decision making. In summary, small-size classes are Teachers individualize as soon as the school year begins. The individualization that occurs, however, involves methods that the teachers have always used.