Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fifth-grade reading level, receive a course description and sign a contract stipulating that they understand what is expected of them. Most have a study plan designed just for them, which means teacher Goldhaber instructs five students in as many subjects at once. While the method appears old-fashioned, classroom dialogue seems drawn from experimental theater. At his right hand, Goldhaber pores over pictures with one student, saying, "Yes, this is an ion, but is it just an ion or a hydroxide ion? Think about it." He asks the student on his left, "Do you really believe 20 times...
...woman nods, getting the point, laughing. Her classmates laugh, and Braden joins in. Laughter, in fact, is an essential part of the curriculum at the tennis college, where every year several thousand adults take three-to- five-day courses that cost $100 daily. It erupts regularly from the classroom during Braden's unique lectures, which combine show biz, science, humor and psychology. It rings out on the 17 courts and the 18 teaching lanes equipped with ball machines -- and in the four video rooms, where students guffaw as they view tapes of their own just completed drills. Even...
These problems were limiting the appeal of skiing, he told the Aspen Skiing executives, but could be dealt with in a school "where people can come in to an unintimidating atmosphere, sit in a classroom and talk, work things through, and find out how people learn, just as we do at the tennis college." The company agreed and in 1987 signed him to a five-year contract. Ski magazine also likes his method, naming his Aspen school the best in the country this year...
...recently as 1983, only eight states allowed full-time staff teachers to be hired without an undergraduate degree in education or classroom experience. Now 23 states have eased training and certification requirements, considered by many to be the most formidable and unnecessary barrier to attracting teaching talent. The result has been an influx of military retirees and career switchers from other professions -- some 2,500 in all during the 1987-88 school year. These recruits have helped reduce teacher shortages and have reinvigorated the classroom. Last spring Bush proposed $25 million in grants to encourage other states to follow suit...
Some state teachers' unions have opposed legislation aimed at luring job switchers, arguing that it allows unqualified people into the classroom. However, many mid-careerists charge that the traditional system is too rigid, forcing even seasoned professionals to take two years of what New Jersey Education Commissioner Saul Cooperman calls "Mickey Mouse" education courses. Both camps agree on one point. Says Katherine Foster, 34, who gave up dentistry for the classroom to become a ninth- and tenth-grade teacher in San Benito County, Calif.: "Teaching is more rewarding than anything I ever imagined...