This approach inverts
the traditional classroom structure where the teacher's primary role is to provide direct instruction in class and practice is done by students independently at home.
With so many creative educators in our schools, alternatives to
the traditional classroom structure are bound to happen.
Not exact matches
The aim wasn't to deliver full courses online, rather to complement the
traditional school
structure and
classroom teaching built on face - to - face relationships.
It's not that these types of
classrooms don't exist; it's that they are still all too commonly an anomaly sitting in a School 1.0
structure and mindset where the physical (think
traditional), may have changed, but a complimentary radical approach to pedagogy is still to emerge.
With its focus on the teacher, Edmodo to some extent reinforces the
traditional one - teacher - to - many - students
classroom structure.
Traditional classroom settings &
structure can feel more like incarceration than education.
Classroom structures may need to be adjusted to accommodate individualized learning — in other words, instead of the
traditional rows of desks facing the blackboard,
classroom seating arrangements may need to be more flexible, so that the teacher can work with individuals or small groups while the majority of students work independently with a personalized learning software program.
It is also high time to ditch
traditional teacher compensation and seniority - based privileges that keep laggard instructors in
classrooms; utilizing student test score growth data in evaluations as well as in
structuring teaching staffs must also be done.
This entrenched culture and
structure has promoted declining
classroom teaching loads and a high level of focus on
traditional legal scholarship.
The
traditional classroom affords a measure of
structure to the lessons, while the online option can be exercised wherever you can locate an available Internet connection.