In this article, we focus particularly on the instructional contexts of classrooms. We discuss five interrelated questions: (a) How has classroom context been defined? (b) Why is classroom context important to study? (c) How have classroom and instructional contexts been studied? (d) What are the essential components for studying the instructional contexts of classrooms? (e) What are the future...

In “flipped classes” students use technology at home to watch online video lectures, demonstrations, and explanations of assignments. Class time is spent doing what is traditionally called “homework." The teacher in a flipped classroom is a learning facilitator, able to work one-to-one with students, clarify assignments, and offer help as needed. Classmates can work together on in-class assignm...

This paper presents the resirlts of the “Virtual Classroom ’’ project sponsored bJ1 the University of Westminster, Educational Initiative Centre (EIC) for delivering lectures on-line. The ultimate aim was to provide a portable hardware arid easy to use software toolset as well as easy to follow guidelines oti how to propel the lectures from the conventional dull chalk rind talk environment to t...

In “flipped classes” students use technology at home to watch online video lectures, demonstrations, and explanations of assignments. Class time is spent doing what is traditionally called “homework." The teacher in a flipped classroom is a learning facilitator, able to work one-to-one with students, clarify assignments, and offer help as needed. Classmates can work together on in-class assignm...

As the use of project-based learning becomes more frequent in the K-12 science classroom, and in chemistry classrooms in particular, teachers have begun to identify practical questions about implementation that should be addressed empirically. One such question concerns whether there is an ideal group size that fosters individual student achievement. The current project was designed to assess h...

How do we create better learning environments in the classroom? Some researchers advocate restructuring the classroom through student design-based inquiry. This paper reports a year-long classroom study that used student design-based inquiry to reform the classroom toward more constructivist teaching and learning practices. Two teachers in a rural school and their 125 seventh graders attempted ...

One of the changes that the “Information Age” has brought to classrooms is that a Web-Based Classroom Management Support System (WBC) is now required for more efficient classroom management in elementary schools. This research aims at finding desirable Internet uses for more efficient classroom management through designing and implementing a web-based classroom support system. It has been possi...

With the development of the course reform of elementary education, the requirements that the classroom teaching should fully embody the new concept of education and inspire students to actively participate in classroom teaching are higher and higher, so high school teachers should have stronger teaching design ability. To make normal college students to be competent for the mathematics teachers...

Classroom environmental conditions establish the social climate or atmosphere of a setting. Stern in 1970 stated that student's perceptions of classroom climate or learning environment are useful in predicting achievement. The purpose of this study was to determine if there was an effect between teaching style and student learning style on classroom environment. The population of this study con...