You as the teacher can look forward to any number of advantages with smaller classes, but the best are the one-on-one student-teacher contacts for immediate feedback, the peer instruction that small groups can more easily enjoy and the numerous classroom strategies that reduction makes possible. In addition, you find a greater sense of connectedness in a small class; everybody knows everybody, everybody knows if someone is absent or off-track, and the smaller support groups help the low-performing students achieve and keep high-performing students challenged.