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classroom
/ -ˌrʊm; ˈklɑːsˌruːm /
noun
- a room in which classes are conducted, esp in a school or college
Word History and Origins
Origin of classroom1
Example Sentences
A student allegedly discharged “a possible firearm” inside a classroom Wednesday morning at Westside Global Awareness Magnet in Marina del Rey, school district officials confirmed.
When I was one of the few Black students at Annapolis in the late 1970s, I and a group of classmates often discussed books we were reading outside of the classroom.
Eye-witness accounts in local media described students running through the site, with some confined to classrooms after an alarm was sounded.
When she was 13 years old, Ms Thomas said she remembered "keeling over in agony" at the back of the classroom.
Taylor, which has become known as the "don't say gay" case, because it's over conservative objections to children's books, taught in Maryland classrooms, that position queerness as a normal fact of life.
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doesclassroom mean?
A classroom is traditionally a room in a school where a class is taught.
The word classroom is commonly used to refer to such a room at every level of education, including elementary school, high school, and college.
It can also be used in a more general way to refer to any space where students are being taught by a teacher. Some classrooms might not even be in a room—some schools have outdoor classrooms where students are taught outside, for example.
The word is sometimes used in a figurative way to refer to the primary place where someone learns and gains experience outside of a formal educational setting, as in My grandfather didn’t have much formal schooling—the farm was his classroom.
Example: I try to set up my classroom to be a space that allows each student to learn in their own way.
Where doesclassroom come from?
The first records of the word classroom come from the late 1700s. The word class can refer to the group of students assembled in the classroom or to what’s being taught in it.
Classrooms can take many forms. The traditional image of a classroom is a room in a school with rows of students (often 10 to 30 or so) at their desks facing the teacher at the front. At many large universities, some students attend classes in big classrooms called lecture halls—a type of auditorium with raised seating that allows many students (perhaps more than 100) to attend the same class. The classroom can even be used to refer to a virtual space where students are gathered for online learning.
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How isclassroom used in real life?
The word classroom is commonly used at all levels of education.
First, we have to acknowledge that students come from different experiences and might have a STRONG growth mindset in ways not connected to a traditional classroom. Let's honor that and not be narrowly focused on what happens inside the classroom walls.
— Jim Bentley (@Curiosity_Films)
I genuinely LOVE learning…just not in a classroom.
— queen quen (@quenblackwell)
Dear Educators! Your virtual classrooms will be great! This is new for everyone! Mistakes will happen. Brick and mortar classrooms have been in place for 200 or more years and we have yet to get some aspects of that right. Take a deep breath!
— Kim Lane Clark, Ed.S (@askatechnogirl)
Try usingclassroom!
Which of the following spaces could be considered a classroom?
A. a room in a school
B. an outdoor space where students learn
C. a virtual learning environment
D. all of the above
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