While math and science teachers are in short supply, said Ernest J. Piermarini, an assistant superintendent for the Lakeland Central School District, "We even have a hard time getting classroom monitors, teacher aide applicants, even basic clerical workers".
If a student's eyes start to wander, the proctor gives a warning via videoconferencing software, just as a classroom monitor might tell students to keep their eyes on their own papers.
"It is about making them feel safe and comfortable in the classroom and monitoring what is happening to them".
In addition to tracking academic performance in the classroom, close monitoring of research progress occurs, as trainees are expected to submit written summaries upon completion of each research rotation prior to selecting a permanent lab for thesis work.
The Norwalk committee reduced costs by substituting cheaper plumbing, electrical fixtures, floor finishes and other materials, eliminating equipment such as classroom television monitors and re-designing the school kitchen, she said.
Diverse technologies have been applied in a variety of teaching practices; for instance learning tools which allow you to flip the classroom or monitor other active learning practices.
Participants noticed how instructors circulated the classroom to monitor the logistics of a lesson, including how they determined the timing and responded to student confusions about what they were supposed to be doing.
In one case seized upon by free-speech libertarians, the Brandeis administration placed an assistant provost in a classroom to monitor a professor after students accused him of using the word "wetback" in a Latin American politics class.
The questionnaires were administered in classroom settings, monitored by project staff, and completed during two school hours.
