1An approach to elementary education that emphasizes spacious classrooms where learning is informally structured, flexible, and individualized.
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By the early 1970s, the phrase open classrooms dominated educators' vocabularies.
This fashion for corporate renewal might have the same short life that open classrooms had in the 1970s.
The Moral Majority attacked not only multiculturalism and new math but unstructured academic approaches such as the open classroom and creative writing.
The existing school had been designed to facilitate the outmoded 1970s concept of the open classroom.
1.1A spacious instructional area shared by several groups of elementary students that facilitates the movement of students from one activity to another.
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Pfiffner and Barkley suggest that physically enclosed classrooms (classrooms with four walls) are more appropriate than open classrooms for children with ADHD.
In schools teachers threw out timetables and introduced open classrooms in which, it was suggested, children might learn in their own time.
I owe that favor to the brightly colored SRA workbooks in Mr. Johnson's open classroom.
To qualify for extra innovation points, the 500-bed complex, complete with open classrooms, technology lab, and faculty apartments, was designed to outlast its upcoming incarnation.
Definition of open classroom in US English:
open classroom
noun
1An approach to elementary education that emphasizes spacious classrooms where learning is informally structured, flexible, and individualized.
Example sentencesExamples
By the early 1970s, the phrase open classrooms dominated educators' vocabularies.
The existing school had been designed to facilitate the outmoded 1970s concept of the open classroom.
The Moral Majority attacked not only multiculturalism and new math but unstructured academic approaches such as the open classroom and creative writing.
This fashion for corporate renewal might have the same short life that open classrooms had in the 1970s.
1.1A spacious instructional area shared by several groups of elementary students that facilitates the movement of students from one activity to another.
Example sentencesExamples
To qualify for extra innovation points, the 500-bed complex, complete with open classrooms, technology lab, and faculty apartments, was designed to outlast its upcoming incarnation.
I owe that favor to the brightly colored SRA workbooks in Mr. Johnson's open classroom.
In schools teachers threw out timetables and introduced open classrooms in which, it was suggested, children might learn in their own time.
Pfiffner and Barkley suggest that physically enclosed classrooms (classrooms with four walls) are more appropriate than open classrooms for children with ADHD.