Summary Of Great Onyx By Shirley Dorm

Have you ever felt stressed about homework? Or have you ever wanted to just come home and relax? This is why the Burris Laboratory School should provide an in-school study hall during school. having study halls during the school day would help improve grades and understanding of subjects. By providing a study hall, there shouldn’t be any excuses for students to not doing their assignments. Not only will having a study hall increase grades, but will allow the students to fill their nights with some event or activity that the student likes doing.

One thing students lose when they decide to dorm is privacy. They have to share a bedroom, bathroom, and living space with other students. Some students have no experience sharing a room with another human being, and the transition can be frustrating at times. Studying is difficult

My eighth grade classroom is set in a Jr-Sr. High school and is located in the Jr. High hallway, in the rear of the high school. I have thirty-two student desks situated in rows and two small tables at the front of my room used for paper pick up. My desk and computer are in the back corner of the room. The students all have their own Chromebooks and I have a desktop computer as well as a Samsung Tablet. Google Classroom is used daily as well as many other applications suited for 1:1 schools. I also have a projector hanging from the ceiling and two large white boards located on the front and side walls of my classroom. The class that I will be focusing on in this paper is made up of 26 students, 15 boys and 11 girls. One student with learning disabilities, another is an ELL student. This class meets for 55 minutes.

Discomfort can come in many different forms, pain from plastic chairs as well as uncomfortable silence. From the moment students walk into McCormick 220 all they hear is silence. The occasional creaking of the the wooden floor beneath the thin carpet as someone walks to their desk and drops their backpack to the floor. The quiet buzz of someone’s phone going off in their backpack. The silence is unwelcoming. Students feel obligated to sit quietly which kills conversations and hinders the sharing of ideas causing the dull room to be even more

The desks are in centers, that the teacher has carefully crafted to promote the most qualitative experience for her students. Mrs. Paul says that she must study and understand her students' behaviors so that she knows where to sit each student. Having the room sectioned up in centers gives the teacher the opportunity to see how all of her students work. Mrs. Paul walked around the classroom and organized her monitoring by center, which allowed her to get to every student. In my future classroom I would like to keep the desks in centers not only to facilitate my assessment and communication with students, but because by being close to each other the students could rely on each other and form trusting

The classroom has a maximum capacity of 10 students. However, currently there are only five students in the classroom at a time. The classroom contains a large horseshoe shaped table, which allows the teacher to work individually with each student at their desk. There is a reading area in the corner of the classroom for the students to use when they need to relax. The walls in the classroom are not decorated nor are there any unnecessary posters the minimal amount of decorations is required by the district. The empty walls help to eliminate student

At least one person from each table was wearing a shirt or sweatshirt with different Greek letters on it. As the time went on I figured out that it was spring recruitment so all Greek life obtained new members. This floor is a common place for Greek life to go to get their work done. While I was observing I noticed quite a lot of norms. The first one I noticed was headphones. Headphones are helpful in this kind of library because they block out external sound and students are able to focus on their work more. I picked up on that when somebody would have headphones in they would be more determined in their work rather than the students who did not have headphones on. A lot of people tend to leave and bring back food from the Student Union. As expected, many people are drinking a coffee from either Starbucks or Tim Hortons. Students rely on coffee to keep them awake while studying or doing homework. Also, more than half of the students brought their

This dormitory has 22 floors, with a fitness center, laundry rooms, a food store on the 11th floor, a health and counseling room, and many practice rooms. “Juilliard has developed an extensive network of services to ensure the health and well being of its students and to nurture their artistic intellectual, and personal growth.”[3] There is a lot of academic support for all students health counseling services that are easily accessible. A healthy student community means a positive environment, which I believe is highly important to look for in a

A dormitory may consists of two to three other individuals in a room whereas if a person works, attends college lectures, or even a college football games they would have communicated with more than three people apart from their roommates in daily life. For example, students might need to talk to each of their professor (who are all different ) regarding class work or course materials, converse with other students while preparing a group presentation, or debate with students during a class discussion who all have opposing viewpoints on certain subject.

First by investigating the problem (what will new furnishing provide?); our group will employ multiple methods such as raising awareness by surveying, observing, and researching. We must raise awareness to show not only the student body that we are trying to improve their learning environment, but also to gain the attention of anyone who would be willing to help us reach our goal. “What we are trying to

     The same what Study Hall keeps students in their desks from 8:00pm to 10:00 pm, it’s a great method of improving a student’s responsibility. When someone is into a routine of doing something every day at the same time, he gets use to it and sometimes keeps that routine forever. One of the reasons study hall is done in Cushing is to provide discipline and responsibility to a student in order to study by your own in College in a near future. It will also make a student keep at least two hours a day to review and study for college. Keeping time for your studies is a great sign of responsibility. In many aspects, Study Hall contributes to a great future by providing responsibility and discipline in a student’s studies.

. My students’ desks were usually found to be in groups of four and five, but the kids could be found on the floor all around the room any time they had an opportunity. I was looking at some pictures I took in class one day and began to think about other alternatives. Of course, Pinterest is the first place I looked. I discovered that it is very easy to find example of creative elementary classrooms, but it proved to be very difficult to find examples of interesting secondary classrooms. But I DID find one room. Here is the link to the article from “The Cult of Pedagogy”, complete with pictures. One look at this, and my new creation quickly formed in my mind.

The classrooms are separated by shelves and a small plastic door. Each small room is divided into different activity sections. The room I observed was the smallest of the four. It was divided into two sections. In the first section was composed of a table surrounded by eight chairs. Around the table there were shelves with toys and learning materials. Some of the learning material that could be found on the shelves were construction blocks, simple puzzles, and writing materials. The second section is covered by a carpet. Two of the walls are made of shelves and a third wall is covered by a board. In the shelves you can find books, music instruments and toys. The board is covered by the letters of the alphabet and corresponding

First, the environment in which learning takes place should be appealing. Regardless of the size of the room--whether small or overcrowded--there are a number of ways to create an

As I walked into Kennedy 234 I couldn’t help but notice the layout. I had just walked past the larger classroom, Kennedy 236, and was expecting something a little different. Kennedy 234 sits off into a corner of the building with windows placed on the far back walls that brought in very little light. There are four round tables with grey cubby-like stations on them which held Dell laptops inside them. There are larger projector screen as well as monitors on posts that display the same images projected onto the projector screens.