Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seen anything like it in their own institutions. Nothing so delighted the venturesome St. Charles school board, which wrested $140,000 out of the voters and another $30,000 from the town's late, crusty philanthropist, Colonel E. J. Baker (TIME, Nov. 10), for two of the dandiest classroom labs ever conceived by a pair of daydreaming science instructors...
...operation a language laboratory is held in a partitioned classroom; Magneticons (magnetic disk machines) are installed in the laboratory at the back. During any hour period half the class meets with the teacher in the front of the room, while the other half works in the laboratory under the supervision of the native speaker. Halfway through the hour the two halves of the class switch around...
This project is expected to increase the individual opportunity which the average student fails to receive in a class of thirty, to cut down on repetition in the classroom, and to impart greater conversational skills than can now be done in a classroom four hours a week...
...second principal objective of SUPRAD, that of promoting greater efficiency in the use of time and space in the schools, is the goal of the "Newton Plan." It is thought that the whole classroom set-up of a school may be made much more flexible, thus permitting both lectures to large groups of students and small-group seminars...
...problem of how closely to integrate lectures with classroom work was dealt with by giving each classroom teacher autonomy in his own teaching, but advising him of the lectures well in advance and encouraging him to use them as fully as possible...