Online learning comes in two broad categories: purely online courses, in which a student is never in the same room as an instructor, and «blended courses,» in which students spend
time in a physical classroom with an instructor, and, also, time online with instructional videos and digital content.
Not exact matches
Physical activity will be important since children who are 6 years old spend so much of their
time in classrooms.
I believe teachers can use technology to differentiate instruction, connect students outside of the
physical classroom, and create more
time inside of the
classroom to engage students
in student - centered activities.»
Teaching online is often just as challenging and
time - consuming (if not more) than teaching
in a
physical classroom.
Studies have shown that schools offering intense
physical activity programs have seen positive effects on academic performance such as improvements
in math, reading, and
classroom behavior — even when the added
time takes away from academic instruction
time.
In mobile
classrooms, communication and collaboration are no longer limited by
physical proximity or
time.
JE: Another thing that educators spend quite a bit of
time thinking about during the holidays and
in the lead - up to the new school year is the
physical classroom layout.
Some elementary schools schedule music, art, and
physical education classes
in a block to minimize transition
time in the
classroom.
In some cases, art, music and
physical education teachers with free
time go into
classrooms to work with small groups of children.
Since students spend more
time in the
classroom than anywhere else, the
classroom is the perfect place to provide increased
physical activity and nutrition education.
A study of Arizona's career ladder program, which requires the use of various methods of student assessment to complement evaluations of teachers» practice, found that, over
time, participating teachers demonstrated an increased ability to create locally - developed assessment tools to assess student learning gains
in their
classrooms; to develop and evaluate pre - and post-tests; to define measurable outcomes
in hard - to - quantify areas like art, music, and
physical education; and to monitor student learning growth.
The brief concludes that students who are more physically active tend to perform better academically, and that sacrificing
physical education to increase
classroom time is not effective
in improving academic performance.
Other schools combine online
classroom time with
classroom time in a
physical school building.
Get the same knowledge as you would
in a
physical classroom, only online and on your
time.
Essentially, the only difference between the two options is that an online class allows you take the course on the Internet at
times convenient to you, whereas when you take the course
in a
classroom, you are required to travel to the class and receive instruction at a set
time and at a set
physical location.
Get the same knowledge you would
in a
physical classroom, only online and when you have the
time.