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classroom Definition

class·room (-ro̵̅o̅m′)

noun

a room in a school or college in which classes are taught

classroom Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • well-equip: The Education Service is based at Dell Key, where there is a well-equipped classroom, a meeting room and an office.
  • base: In addition to the classroom based work, the Peer Mentors have introduced Peer In.
  • refurbish: The education system needs rehabilitating - classrooms refurbished, children registered, teachers retrained.
  • enter: Entering a second grade classroom, it is easy to determine what the children are learning.

Adjective modifier

  • virtual: Students have a Grammar Reference in the virtual classroom, which can help them to carry out these tasks.
  • inclusive: Classroom teachers are not prepared for the inclusive classroom.
  • outdoor: It provides shelter from the sun, as well as being an outdoor classroom and a source of fun.
  • mainstream: The majority of children who have disability attend mainstream classrooms in government schools.
  • floating: A floating classroom to offer nature study to schoolchildren.
  • primary: It had been partitioned to make four primary classrooms.

Modifies a noun

  • assistant: The more we can provide classroom assistants in schools the better.
  • observation: Their findings reflect those of the general education classroom observation research.
  • teacher: The resource takes into account the needs of the classroom teacher.
  • teaching: I have a year's experience of blended pedagogy using a VLE to support classroom teaching.
  • discourse: The nature of classroom discourse used during the Literacy Hour is being examined by John Lee and Dr. Richard Eke.
  • instruction: Computer based instruction has already proved to be an effective supplement to classroom instruction.

Noun used with modifier

  • mathematics: Much use is made of ICT in our teaching and each mathematics classroom is equipped with a PC and an interactive whiteboard.
  • language: This is already having a dramatic change in the proportions of time assigned to oral skills in the foreign language classroom.
  • mainstream: In 2001 children who have disability in mainstream classrooms represented 2.37 per cent of the total student population of just over four million.
  • science: I think Trisha's hanging around a science classroom at breaktime can be explained.
classroom Quotes

A Socrates in every classroom.

—Griswold, Alfred Whitney