I had read in Running Times magazine of a junior
high homeroom teacher who did something similar in 1995.
Not exact matches
Ellery Schempp, at 16 years of age in 1956, stayed in his seat while the rest of his
high school class stood to recite the Lord's prayer; he flipped through the Koran while his
homeroom teacher recited ten verses from the Bible.
Several other large
high schools in the area, including Maine South in Park Ridge and Barrington, use a
homeroom program to help students develop an affinity for the school and classmates.
On trial: A 21 - year - old Wisconsin woman testified last week that when she was in
high school, her
homeroom teacher hugged and kissed her on the mouth, wrote her letters and «made me feel special.»
To increase attendance, some schools have
homeroom and class competitions for prizes for the most parent sign ins (we used pizza party with the
homeroom with the
highest percentage of parents attending.
At least four or five
high school students are assigned to all the sixth - grade
homerooms.
For example,
high schools used to have a
homeroom at the start and end of the school day.
Twice a month in
homeroom, students journal, watch videos and discuss powerpoint presentations designed to support and socially transition students from elementary school to
high school.
Middle schools will now begin
homeroom at 8:20 a.m. or 8:25 a.m. and
high schools will begin morning classes at 8:30 a.m.. All elementary and intermediate schools will begin at 7:45 a.m., an advance of approximately 45 minutes and apparently including Central School (K - 8) and New Hope Elementary (Pre-K — 8th grade).
Reading achievement data for those
homerooms that year were
high, and the teachers gave much of the credit to the program.
In fact,
high school is often a time when students experience greater separation — from their family as they take more cues from their peers, from their school community as they go from teacher to teacher without a consistent «
homeroom» during the day, and as they further define their sense of identity, how they are like others and also, how they are different.