Shoemaker-Richards's use of trigger warnings largely mirrors the way that they have been implemented in classrooms across the country, and, although the term itself sounds forbidding and censorious, in practice these warnings are meant to protect students from public traumatic flashbacks.
The lack of clarity surrounding the unit's overall purpose inhibited the team from visualizing how it could be implemented in classrooms other than their own, which ultimately split the team in two.
These results, if replicated, suggest that full-day kindergarten initiatives targeted toward students from disadvantaged backgrounds may be more successful when implemented in classrooms with relatively small student enrollments.
Working with leading neuroscientists, educators and researchers, The Hawn Foundation has developed the MindUP program, a curriculum that has already been implemented in classrooms by over 1,000 educators throughout the United States, Canada and the U.K. -- and they are receiving requests to bring their program to many other regions around the world such as Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Since inquiry is the preferred instructional method for elementary science classes, primary and pre-school teachers were invited to adapt and implement in classroom, science modules based on inquiry approach which were designed and developed by Romanian science teachers in the frame of the PROFILES FP7 project.
Individualized approaches are difficult to implement in classrooms with 25 students.
In addition, the elements in PORTAAL go beyond simply identifying the amount or type of active learning occurring in the classroom and also guide instructors as to how active learning should be implemented in the classroom (with accountability, logic development, and apprehension reduction) for the greatest impact on student learning.
In Part 2, we demonstrate how we used PORTAAL to explore how active learning is being implemented in the classroom by documenting the teaching practices observed in a range of introductory biology classrooms at one university.
We still did all of the wonderful things that I had already implemented in the classroom, except now the literature, the documents, the videos, the discussions, the images embodied the issues that my children wanted to explore.
