The others might say cutting things in classroom critique sessions to score easy points, but Jerome does it because he cares about aesthetics.
Initially, the participants shared things like classroom management, student absenteeism, and class and/or group size as factors associated with the decline in cognitive demand.
Hey, like Stephen Colbert, I'm doing this matching grants thing for classrooms in schools that serve military families.
And today's assessments certainly don't measure qualities of great teaching that we know make a difference - things like classroom management, teamwork, collaboration, and individualized instruction.
They had to shut us up and shut us down so that we could not even sit at a table with them and bargain about simple things like classroom size or bulletproof vests for everyone on the police force or letting a pilot just get a few extra hours sleep so he or she can do their job -- their $19,000 a year job.
Among other things, oversubscribed classrooms can force a student like Mr. Macias, who must be enrolled full time to keep financial aid, to take courses that might have little to do with his progress toward graduation.
When it comes to teachers, probably the most disruptive thing in a classroom is the loss of the teacher in midyear.
"If you were going to ask me the most important thing in a classroom," Ms. Elliott said, "other than a good teacher, I'd say carpet".
Although Sandy made sure to include time for students to complete a redesign phase so that they could learn from their initial designs, she struggled with the pressure she felt to move onto the next thing in her classroom.
- Good news: A mother in North Carolina is challenging a Bible giveaway at her son's public school because of the whole "keeping religion out of the classroom" thing.
