Word: classroom
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...there is more to turning a potentially dry subject matter into entertainment than just reeling off a series of classroom antics. So, what makes a professor an object of affection for students...
Vosgerchian makes an effort to get to know all her students personally, even in her large lectures. She says she knew every one of the 185 students in her fall semester 19th century piano music course. But sometimes getting close to students can produce out-of-classroom benefits...
...link what I am talking about with musical themes," says Cox. "Students associate what I am saying with some other dimension of the brain," Cox adds, explaining that students tend to remember facts by association. "I play the theme again, as students come into the classroom, and it gets them remembering...
Gould and other professors, including psychologist Brendan Maher, have also improved their classroom demeanor. Or so Harvard would have us think...
Honor Student Ryan White, 13, began seventh grade last week. But he did not get on a yellow bus to travel the five miles to the Western Middle School near Kokomo, Ind. For Ryan, classroom is his bedroom, where he tries to hear teachers and speak to fellow pupils via a telephone hookup. Ryan is a hemophiliac who contracted acquired immunodeficiency syndrome last winter through a blood transfusion. Although Indiana state health officials say that students with AIDS can attend school as long as their condition does not threaten others, District Superintendent of Schools J.O. Smith decided to bar Ryan...