Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Political field work is the latest extension of the Divinity School's program, to integrate classroom studies with community problems. Before 1961, when the program began, Hommes explained, student involvement with the outside community consisted of "spending three or four hours preaching in the suburbs on Sunday morning for some extra money...
...school I see pictures on the wall. I see pictures of Spain and a pictures of Portofino and a pictures of Chicago. I see arithmetic paper a spellings paper. I see a star chart. I see the flag of our America. The classroom is dirty... The auditorium is dirty the seats are dusty. The light the auditorium is brok. The curtains in the auditorium are ragged they took the curtains down because they was so ragged. The bathroom is dirty ... The cellar is dirty the hold school is dirty sometime ... The flowers are dry every thing in my school...
...some schools rushed to put entire courses into a can. Most have since found that students and faculty alike grow bored with so much impersonality. The common practice now is to use tape as a teaching aid-perhaps a 25-minute lecture on the central ideas presented in a classroom period or a graphic demonstration of key points, freeing the rest of the time for discussion. In an experiment at San Jose State College, half of the 1,200 students enrolled in a U.S. history course no longer meet in a vast auditorium; instead, they can sit in their dorms...
...power. Those now in charge of the schools, particularly in the big cities, have failed miserably-and teachers cannot be blamed for overcrowded classes, inept texts, pre-Sputnik curriculums. Even the injection of billions of dollars in federal funds, designed specifically to spur innovation, has largely bypassed the classroom teacher. Of some 700 federal grants awarded last year in Michigan, teachers were not consulted in 80% of the cases...
...with many union groups is that they are dominated not by the best teachers but by mediocre timeservers primarily worried about job security and self-benefits. And as many supervisors point out, teachers do not fully exercise the discretionary powers they now have to try new approaches in the classroom. Although there are signs that more bright, open-minded students are taking up teaching as a career, the majority of new teachers are still potential pedants who have been trained in old-fashioned "methods" courses at second-rate schools...