Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eble also laments the low salaries and low prestige of teachers, which means that "if imagination is a conspicuous quality in an elementary teacher, surely its first use will be to consider employment elsewhere." When Eble visits the classroom of a good teacher, he finds that"one begins to feel a visceral response that leads to lumps in the throat and tears in the eyes...
...wants to get his studying over with as quickly as possible; the reading-period crowds which fill the present libraries at the end of the term want to cram the most possible studying into their waning days. For these, the wonks of the Loeb, of Carpenter Center, or the classroom, pleasant surroundings are not attractive but distracting...
Simultaneously and without sentimentality, Herbert, who narrates as well as produces Experiment, reveals the whole man - musician, engaging classroom instructor, collector of old Chaplin films, and gifted home moviemaker...
...middle and elementary schools through rapid transit and highways and through telephone, radio, television, and a computer communication system. For example, two-way television will be needed to facilitate such linkage and to multiply the experiences and the range of competence that can be brought into classrooms. Here, too community resources, such as WQED -- the educational television station -- should be utilized. In addition, the possibility of including Instructional Television Fixed Service on frequency bands especially reserved by the Federal Communications Commission should be explored. In order to provide two-way television, classrooms should be equipped for transmission as well...
...interest and pertinence may rather be emphasized with the thinking made clear, but with enough of the unsettled issues and unresolved problems introduced to stimulate the students to read, discuss, seek answers, design and perform experiments--in other words, to promote those highly individualistic exercises--usually away from the classroom--which for each student constitute the real educational experience. The core curriculum would also stimulate students to seek elective courses which would complement in depth the topics emphasized in the core curriculum...