Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take a one-year internship, while Mexican schools require a year of social service, usually in rural areas. Furthermore, American schools increasingly emphasize clinical experience and put students into contact with patients early in their training; European schools -which have limited teaching-hospital facilities-rely heavily on lectures and classroom work...
...interest in the open classroom, the flexible way of teaching that is sweeping the public schools. Usually, fixed rows of desks and fixed weekly lessons are abandoned. Children roam from one study project to another, theoretically following their native curiosity and learning at their own uneven rates. The new principles are reminiscent of John Dewey's progressive philosophy of 40 years ago. Open education, however, emphasizes new discoveries about how children learn, uses more teaching materials and gives the teacher a more difficult task-to know just when the child is ready for his next stage of development...
...dividing schooling into two separate programs, Sizer has cleared away much of the confusion that bedeviled educators interested in reform. They had difficulty resolving the conflict of how children could acquire fundamental skills and develop personally in the same institutions. Advocates of the open classroom gave priority to development of maturity and felt, or at least hoped that academic abilities would naturally follow. Teachers in standard public schools emphasize acquisition of skills at the expense of everything else. Sizer's division allows work to progress on both fronts without conflict, and probably with mutual reinforcement...
During four days of high winds, snow flurries and sub-freezing weather, Union members picketed major classroom buildings this week all over campus, urging undergraduates and graduate students to boycott classes in support of Union demands. Class attendance dipped about 30 per cent Monday, but began an upswing Tuesday and returned its normal level on Thursday, the strike's last...
...Pilot School promotes what they call "cross-cultural education." Students learn not only in the traditional classroom environment but also in the "outside world" under the auspices of various exchange and wilderness programs...