Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dawn fire charred part of the Marine Classroom on the first floor of Shannon Hall--the ROTC building--yesterday morning. Officials suspect arson...
...damage is confined to one-forth of the classroom and consists primarily of charred furniture and papers, and soot on the ceiling. Water from the sprinklers soaked a rug next door...
Throughout Challenge's winter term, teachers shared many similar frustrations. The ideal and abstract conceptions put forth during Orientation did not seem to apply to te concrete situation of the classroom. Teachers found discipline hard to dispense having seldom before been in positions of authority...
...teacher who desired respects a person, not as an authority figure. Often, one's class did not operate as a group but rather as eight, somewhat boistrous, separate individuals who seemed more interested in throwing paper air-planes out the window than in accomplishing something in the classroom. Gaining control over the class occupied time and energy that otherwise might have been used to motivate creative class...
WITH THE spring term many positive changes have come to Challenge. for one, most teachers now "team teach." This allows for more individual attention to be given each child, as well as for a more relaxed atmosphere in the classroom. The staff has suggested curriculum ideas which, when implemented in the class, require planning by the child but which offer him a concrete feeling of success. Long-range projects such as Model Cities or Musical Instruments provide a structure large enough for everyone to work in while being individually creative...