Tag Archives: Classrooms

What does a complex classroom look like? Here’s a description submitted to CBC News from an Alberta teacher. It was two years ago. She recalls sitting on the floor of her Grade 1 classroom outside Edmonton, restraining a child in her arms because he was banging his head on the …

In her Grade 8 to Grade 12 classrooms, Annie Ohana says ideas with toxic undertones are often not far away. Like earlier this school year, when she was handing out cups for an activity, and a boy asked if any part of it would “lower [his] testosterone.” The student conceded …

As police officers return to Greater Victoria School District 61 this fall, high school principal Heather Brown is among those welcoming them back.  When her school board ended its School Police Liaison Officer (SPLO) program two years ago, the administrator in Saanich, B.C., could still access police in emergencies, but felt she’d lost a …

“Shut up and make me a sandwich.” “I don’t have to listen to you, go get the man in charge.” Those are some of the comments one Halifax teacher says she has heard from some of her male students in recent years. Christine Emberley said the comments range from sarcastic sniping about …

Classrooms and hallways in Nova Scotia public schools may look a little bit different when students head back next week. The province’s new rules on cellphones will take effect, and that has most educators, students and parents feeling optimistic. “You can use it while you do projects and stuff, which …

In Beatrice Schneider’s seventh grade classroom in Toronto, there are two fans in opposite corners of the room. One of them is broken. When temperatures soar – as they have this week while much of Ontario experiences a heat wave – the class gets stuffy, the students get sweaty and learning can …

The Ontario government says a provincewide approach to banning cellphones in classrooms will bring uniformity to the rules on devices and improve student concentration as it leans on parents to make the new policy possible. On Sunday, Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced new rules for vaping and cellphones that will …

Smartphones are a piece of technology many people have on their person at nearly all times, but in a classroom setting, they’re becoming more and more of a nuisance. The Ontario government announced over the weekend its plan to introduce limits on cellphones in school, as a way to reduce …

From predictive text to editing software to image generators, artificial intelligence is becoming a part of everyday life. This fall, its capabilities won’t be able to be ignored in the classroom. “We’ve always had tools in education that have been deemed dangerous or risky, but we’ve always had teachers there …