Our students have often struggled
with academic classroom settings and been judged as unmotivated, undisciplined, and unintellectual.
This paradigmatic shift involves a movement toward a participatory culture using Web 2.0 technologies — dynamic environments that are not limited to the interactions
of academic classrooms.
The observations made in this case study show that drama can be integrated
into academic classrooms as an effective approach for engaging students in active participation in their learning while helping them make connections between historical and contemporary world issues.
Simulated Workplace is operated under the Division of Career Technical Education, but there is growing interest from school districts to expand the program to
academic classrooms as well.
Save the World on Your Own Time by Stanley Fish Oxford University Press, 208 pages, $ 19.95 Here is Stanley Fish, writing Save the World on Your Own Time: «Not only is the
genuinely academic classroom full of passion and commitment; it is more interesting than the alternative.
Arts - depleted classrooms are also getting help from a three - year, $ 750,000 grant by the LA Fund, which recently announced that the first grant of $ 150,000 to the Music Center will train 20 teachers on how to bring arts into
core academic classrooms at five LA middle schools,
Integrated into the elegantly appointed school along
with academic classrooms, a student lounge and student library / media center is SWINA's Student Day Spa.
Children who attend preschool are better prepared to enter into
the academic classroom because they can follow directions, interact appropriately with other children, and are accustomed to being away from their parents to attend school.
Whether a 5 minute yoga break in
the academic classroom, a yoga unit in gym or a full - on yoga class, its helpful to move, stretch, breathe and balance.
This theme would then be a focus for the day and carry in some way into each of
their academic classrooms.
Whether it is the corporate training facility or
the academic classroom, instructional objectives are more likely to be achieved when instruction is proffered in a systematic, informed, and informative manner.
Art is also prominent in
our academic classrooms for both instruction and assessment.
These varied perspectives on current events, lifestyles, and even pop culture references can enhance
the academic classroom and broaden personal understanding of the world.