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1943 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

In February 1943, the United States Department of War announced the Department would take over both classroom space and athletic facilities at 271 colleges and universities to be utilized in the training of United States Army soldiers.

Association of MBAs

a full-time MBA curriculum should contain no less than 500 contact (scheduled classroom) hours and a distance-learning MBA program should have no less than 120 synchronous contact hours;

Avon-Maitland Distance Education Centre

In the FirstClass classroom desktop, a teacher posts notes to all the students in the class and maintains the class calendar.

By any means necessary

In the final scene of the 1992 movie Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela—recently released after 27 years of political imprisonment—appears as a schoolteacher in a Soweto classroom.

Chugworth Academy

Manuel Bistro, Red Commando - Manuel is a Communist revolutionary who led a team of other revolutionaries and took over Sally's classroom briefly in an attempt to overthrow...well, something.

Coaley

Coaley has many amenities, including a 300 year old pub, the Fox and Hounds, the Coaley C of E Primary School, a church, a village hall, and a community shop, set up in recent years using the former reception classroom of the school.

Coastal Christian School, ME

Coastal Christian employes a traditional classroom style of teaching and uses textbooks published primarily by Bob Jones University Press, A Beka, Saxon, and Holt.

Crazy Horse Memorial

The memorial is to be the centerpiece of an educational/cultural center, to include a satellite campus of the University of South Dakota, with a classroom building and residence hall, made possible by a US$2.5 million donation in 2007 from T. Denny Sanford, a Sioux Falls, South Dakota philanthropist.

Critical psychology

The conceptions of learning he found most useful in his own detailed analysis of "classroom learning" came from cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave (situated learning) and Edwin Hutchins (distributed cognition).

D-Yikes!

When the episode begins, Mrs. Garrison storms into her classroom enraged over a failed date, and takes her rage out on her male students with an essay assignment over the weekend, making them read The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway in its entirety.

Ebony College Luwero

In January, 2002, construction kicked off and by December 2002, eight structures (blocks) were up, six classrooms, an administration block and a staff room.

Encyclo-Media

Encyclo-Media seeks to provide high quality professional development by encouraging Oklahoma educators to share their best classroom practices to peers, and by inviting nationally known speakers such as Jim Trelease, Richard Peck, Alan November, Patricia Polacco, Doug Johnson, Stephen Krashen, Sharon Draper, Linda Sue Park, and more.

Ernesto De Pascale

Ernesto de Pascale attended the famous Liceo Classico Dante in Florence (whose students include actors Davide Riondino and Paolo Hendel, Italian rock icon Piero Pelù, politicians and writers Giorgio Van Straten and Giovanni Gozzini, politician Matteo Renzi) from 1971 on, until he was thrown out for having destroyed his classroom by fire and physical violence.

Flip teaching

Its most important popularizers are not government officials or academic experts, but Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergmann, a pair of high school chemistry teachers in Woodland Park, Colo., who wrote a book called “Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day,” drawing almost completely on their own experience.

Forced

Beta Dwarf was formed by a small group of students, who moved into an unused classroom in Aalborg University – Copenhagen, in Denmark.

Harvard Science Center

The Harvard University Science Center is Harvard's main classroom and laboratory building for undergraduate science and mathematics, in addition to housing numerous other facilities and services.

Indian Railway Accounts Service

The two year training program includes classroom training at National Academy of Direct Taxes at Nagpur, Railway Staff College Vadodara and specialised training institutes, as well as field training on zonal railways, divisions, construction organisations and manufacturing units of the Indian Railways.

Information Sciences and Technology Building

The Information Sciences and Technology Building (commonly known as the IST Building) is a classroom building at Pennsylvania State University.

IProf India

iProf's current CEO, Sanjay Purohit, an Indian Institute of Technology Bombay post graduate and gold medalist from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, left his position as the managing director of a New York based business transformation firm and moved back to India to create the opportunity for students to get an adequate education despite the lack of good instructors and limited classroom programs in tier two and tier three cities in the country.

John Amos Comenius

In 1892 Comenius Hall, the principal classroom and faculty office building on Moravian College's campus in Pennsylvania, was built.

John L. Kelley

In 1960, he took a leave of absence to serve as the National Teacher on NBC's Continental Classroom television program.

Kennesaw State University Social Sciences Building

The auditorium and a digital cinema classroom use high definition projectors and digital media players.

Kia Corthron

The plot dealt with a returning Vietnam veteran and his sister, but the success of the short piece was not the plot, it was the impact the play had on the classroom audience.

Learning Through Art

Along with classroom discussion of texts and visual documents, for the purposes of this study students were asked to discuss the painting The Artist and His Mother by Arshile Gorky (1926), and an excerpt from Cynthia Kabohata's 2004 book Kira-Kira.

Leiden Glossary

The glossary contains 48 chapters or glossae collectae, which explain terms from texts used in the classroom by Theodore of Tarsus and Adrian of Canterbury, who both taught at St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury, and thus "contain the record of their classroom teaching".

Martin Honert

A Model Scenario of the Flying Classroom (Catalogue Raisonné no. 30) made for the German Pavilion at the 1995 Venice Biennale borrows its subject and title from a children’s book by Erich Kästner entitled The Flying Classroom.

Max Rafferty

Rafferty's first job, during World War II, was as a classroom teacher in the Trona Unified School District in the Mojave Desert portion of San Bernardino County, California.

Mel King

In 1953, King left the classroom to work with at risk youth, becoming Director of Boy's Work at Lincoln House, a settlement house in Boston's South End community.

Mohawk Valley Astronomical Society

On May 31, 1989, seven amateur astronomers held an organizational meeting in the Solar Classroom at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York to plan the formation of an astronomy club.

Nacho Cerdà

Created in 1990, it tells of a boy for whom time stops upon falling asleep in a classroom, only later realising that he had actually died and was experiencing an out-of-body phenomena.

New Opera Singapore

In 2012, New Opera Singapore began a series of productions that included the second Opera Comique production, ‘In the Classroom’; Gaetano Donizetti’s bel canto opera L'elisir d'amore, and Franz Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin.

Pattern language

Since the original publications, thinking in terms of patterns and pattern languages has been applied to other fields, including software design, user interface design, classroom curriculum, and social change.

Playware Studios

Playware Studios collaborated with the team at Canberra Primary School to create 3DHive, an integrated, holistic, pervasive games for learning platform built from the ground up for use in the classroom.

Potato Museum

It started as a classroom project by the students of teacher Tom Hughes at The International School of Brussels, Belgium in 1975.

Principles of learning

Classroom instruction can benefit from a wide variety of instructional aids, to improve realism, motivate learning, and challenge students.

Rebels and Traitors

Davis has said that her interest in this period goes back to when a print of the Laughing Cavalier by Frans Hals hung in her primary school classroom, and was further developed when she read Rosemary Sutcliff's novels Simon and The Rider of the White Horse.

Role-playing

Modern improvisational theatre began in the classroom with the "theatre games" of Viola Spolin and Keith Johnstone in the 1950s.

Scarborough Junction

It opened in 1955 named after Maria Goretti and boasts a double gymnasium with a stage, closed circuit television in every classroom, an elevator and an assembly area named the "Ark'" which can be used for gatherings of up to 300 people.

Stephen T. McClard

Stephen T. McClard (born September 18, 1967 in Farmington, Missouri) Band Director, Furniture Designer, Professional Musician, 3rd Generation Piano Technician, Luthier and Author of the book, The Superior Educator: A Calm and Assertive Approach to Classroom Management and Large Group Motivation.

Teaching for Change

The Zinn Education Project provides teachers with free resources to help teach a people's history including over 100 free downloadable lesson plans as a companion to Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States and other classroom resources for educators around the country.

The Firehouse Gallery

The lower level houses the Community Darkroom and a multi-use classroom (life-drawing sometimes held in this classroom).

The Truth About De-Evolution

A series of rapid-fire cuts of the letters in "DEVO" appears (with the music of "Mechanical Man" found on Hardcore Devo: Volume One), and then we cut to Mark Mothersbaugh in a Kent State classroom (actually the Governance Chambers), delivering a lecture.

The Weather Classroom

It is part of the Cable in the Classroom initiative, and airs at a time when the show can be recorded for later showings in the classroom.

Vancouver Technical Secondary School

Vancouver Technical Secondary was also used for the backdrop in the first Scary Movie, in the beauty contest scene, and as the school location for the movie Air Bud, in which all the classroom and indoor scenes are filmed.

Vasu Pisharody

After an initial brief stint at Kerala Kalamandalam, Vasu Pisharody worked at a kalari (Kathakali classroom) run by the Guruvayur Kathakali Club.

Viatron

The System 21 was aimed, among others, at applications such as mathematical and statistical analysis, business data processing, data entry and media conversion, and educational/classroom use.

Vietnam Children's Fund

VCF hopes to build one elementary school in each of Vietnam’s provinces and to create enough classroom space to teach 58,000 children—the number of names on the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, DC.


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