What do we call it?

khoshta · Post by **khoshta** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:01 am

Hi,

in my country students in a certain class and teachers attend the class to teach them on the time scheduled for his subiect. what do call these types of classes?

2- If it is the opposite condition. I mean each teacher has his own class and students come when it is time for their lesson. what do call these types of classes?
Hope to hear an answer.

Many thanks.

Senorita Daniels · Post by **Senorita Daniels** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:42 pm

You call the class and the teacher by the name of the subject. When I was in school, I had a 15 minute band lesson with a band teacher once a week. If the teacher teaches an algebra class, he or she is a math teacher. (all branches of math are taught by math teachers) It's really a simple and clear way to describe the teacher.

khoshta · Post by **khoshta** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:26 am

Thank you Senorita Daniels for your reply.I appreciate your help.But
I want to use the terminology defined in pedagogy.
Do we call it subject teacher classroom,
or student classrooms? Of course, these are my expressions . Can you help me find the resources that is about these two kinds of classroom design.
Thanks in advance.

Sally Olsen · Post by **Sally Olsen** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:40 pm

Interesting topic. I looked in Google under classroom configuration, model of teaching, classroom organization, and teacher's role in the classroom. There are a lot of interesting ideas for each but no categorization as you want. It would be hard to call them student centered classrooms because that title has been used as a teaching method and means something else. In Greenland the classroom belongs to the students and they have meetings to determine how to decorate it, what rules they will follow, what activities they will do as a class during the year, etc. The subject teachers come in to the classroom as you described. But as a subject teacher (English) I also had a student centered style of teaching or even a community based style of teaching versus the predominant style of teaching which was instructor based or teacher centered. I think that there are two ideas here and I am sure that they are defined somewhere - in school organization documents perhaps?