That classroom of amazing, brilliant, imaginative, loving, self-sufficient (well, sort of), hilarious, unpredictable, completely capable little people?
You laugh, but when I sat in that classroom of substitute teacher wannabes, I asked a school district's substitute teacher coordinator for the ultimate tip.
Focusing on an educational paradigm rooted in critical pedagogy, the socratic method, futures studies, and peace education, this essay takes the position that classrooms of the future should be transformed into safe harbors where students are afforded the opportunity to explore, deconstruct and share knowledge of themselves, their experiences, and the world in which they live.
She took her concerns to her principal, Mr. McNally, telling him -- diplomatically, he recalls -- that classroom discussions of AIDS were good, but more had to be done.
More recently, a meeting hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science targeted a goal that classroom teaching of biology should reflect the way modern biological research operates (Mervis, 2009; Summers, 2009; Woodin et al., 2009; Brewer and Smith, 2011).
Class size ("Does Class Size Count?," by Sara Mosle, Sunday Review, May 5) remains a top issue for parents and teachers alike, because they know that a classroom of students is not a room full of widgets.
(A consequence of this is that a classroom of thirty students will have thirty individually-constructed, and possibly different, bodies of "knowledge", in addition to that of the teacher).
"Students and teachers must feel that classrooms are havens of learning and not a potential firing range," Mr. Garn said in a letter published today by The Salt Lake Tribune.
One important hallmark of Montessori education is that classrooms can include children of varying ages.
When Mr. Riner's wife, Claudia, was a state representative, she sponsored a bill in 1978 requiring that classrooms display a copy of the Ten Commandments.
At this year's CES, EXO U is showing off the user interface that will power that "Jetson -y classroom of computer-desks.
