Salma Ghazi GNT is an opportunity that only a few select students can obtain. Its another thing if you could customize it too make it your own. To start, my ideal GNT classroom would be an all day program. My mother was also in GNT at my age. She was talking about it and her GNT class was a full day. In our school, each GNT class is one block each. This isn’t the only thing, however. Something else that would be in my ideal GNT classroom is to do things that and learn things that we wouldn’t usually learn in 7th grade.I’m not exactly sure what I’ll learn as I’ve never been in GNT or PEG. I'm not sure what to expect, but I hope it's different than all my other classes in 7th grade. I think that this class shouldn’t teach students things that they would learn anyway. What else would I like in an ideal classroom. Technology. I think technology is a big advancement in school. It may act up at sometimes, but I believe it has more overall advantages over disadvantages. While I don't want it to turn into a google classroom, I think it would be fun to use some technology in class. It's still, however, important to communicate and learn without a screen. I also want to involve current events in our classrooms. Especially with the current election, and other things happening, there's a lot of things we can learn. As seventh graders, we’re well past the age that we should be learning about the world around us. It's important that all students know this information, because we are the future and it's important to know these things if we are going to grow up to be a good community and a good citizen. I want GNT to be a fun experience. While I know that it is a class, I want to be able to do a lot of fun activities, unlike math or language arts classes. Which such a small class, there is much potential to do things usually impossible for most teachers. Everyone in GNT is smart and with students like the ones in our GNT class much is achievable that is usually not in normal classes I also want to be challenged. If this class is easy, I’ll probably be a little disappointed.GNT is supposed to be a class for more advanced students, and I want to know my limits, as well as break them. You might think this is the last thing any student would say, but I'm weird. I can’t forget to add that I hope we can explore a large range and variety of topics. There's just so much to explore in our world, but so little time to learn about it all. Most importantly, I would want a fun GNT classroom where we can laugh, learn, and have fun. Hopefully at least some of these things happen this year. I think most of these things are doable and realistic. I’m expecting to learn a lot this year. I can’t wait to see what’s in store for this year in GNT.
My ideal G&T classroom is so unrealistic that your mind will be blown. (You said it was an IDEAL classroom not a REALISTIC classroom.) Do not calculate how much this would cost it would just give you a headache. You have been warned…
In the back of my mind, I’ve always thought about the perfect classroom. Most people will look at this assignment and think about things inside a normal budget. I’m not one of those people. It’s either go big or go home and by big I mean thrice the size of the gym – no – the size of two schools combined. At this point it doesn’t even seem like a classroom. It seems more like a school or a building. Let’s look at the definition of the word “classroom”. According to Google, a classroom is “a room, typically in a school, in which a class of students is taught.” It’s technically a room because it won’t have any doors or walls separating it so there’s no denying that this humungous room is a classroom. Now, I’ll explain the contents of this beautiful classroom. This classroom will have hundreds of books from a book about paint drying to a book about unicorns. This will take up about a quarter of the classroom (which is about the size of 15 regular-sized classrooms combined). G&T students could use this as a library instead of the school library because these books will be in top-condition unlike some library books. Another feature in this classroom will be a music station. In this section people will listen to music and do their work at the same time. There will be 4 speakers spread about 15 feet apart from each other. If you choose not to listen to that music you can use your phone in this area and listen to your own music. This is the perfect place for music lovers. An area in this beautiful G&T classroom will be the electronics area. These days, people are using technology for everything, even for school purposes. For example, what you’re reading right now is on a computer or an electronic device and it is used for school purposes. In this section, you will do anything that involves electronics as long as you it’s educational. You can do anything from coding to doing typing exercises. It doesn’t matter as long as you’re learning something.
Don’t you want to relax once in a while? Students need a break from their busy day. This area of the classroom would be naptime area. This section is exactly how it sounds like – a place to nap. There will be a limit of four people in the naptime area. There are 3 beds and 3 beanbag chairs to relax on. You can also bring the books from the library mentioned earlier in this section. There’s not much learning in this section except for learning about R.E.M. The next section is another relaxing area. It’s the place I like to call “the food court”. In this place there will be a wide selection of food from a cupcake to caviar. To get the food won’t be easy though. If you want food you have to do a worksheet, a riddle, or a super complex problem. For example, if you want a slice of pie, you would have to do a worksheet. If you wanted a fancy food like Crème Brûlée, you’d have to do a worksheet, a long complex problem, and a riddle. The simpler the food is, the less you have to do. The upside is there’s no fee! This puts two of the best things together – learning and eating! The final component in this classroom is the actual room where Ms. Mandell would teach. If Ms. Mandell had a lesson planned out, she would call all of us to this area. Instead of normal chairs and desks, it would have soft beanbag chairs and a small desk to go with it. This would make learning lessons more fun. The projector’s projection will be three times larger than what it is right now. There will also be an 80 inch flat screen TV in this awesome area. Students would be excited to learn in this environment. Isn’t this quite a classroom? Many teachers would say “Of course not! If you have some of these sections, people will hang out in that section all the time!” That’s why I limited the amount of time at each station equally. People will be at each station for about 13 minutes. For the last 6 minutes of class, students can go to any station they want. I like this idea and it would be amazing if this would happen (even though it’s probably not going to happen but let a girl dream). This is my dream classroom and I really wish we had the budget to create this classroom. We can probably have a scaled-down, version though! Even though all this sounds great, there is one thing that I don’t like about this G&T classroom – it’s not the G&T classroom that we have right now!
Gifted and talented, also known as GNT, is a class where students get the opportunity to learn a variety of different topics, which we wouldn’t normally learn in our other classes. It allows students to do learn and have fun over a wide range of topics. While we learn, we enjoy being there and have lots of fun. However, as a student, I do have a few ideas to what my ideal GNT classroom would be. I don’t mean that we should change GNT class completely. I am expressing my ideas to what my thought of an ideal GNT class would be. To start off, in my GNT classroom, we’d meet 3 days per week. In my opinion, I love GNT. I know this would mean we’d get more work, but just think about all the possibilities of things we could get done and also learn if we met 3 times a week! We could do on day on science and history, another day on math and language arts, and and the third day, we would just combine everything and learn! That way we could learn more about different topics and also have more time. I am expecting myself to do better and to do better, I have to push myself. Furthermore, I believe that by extending GNT classes per week, I would be able to push myself. Not only that, I believe that we should do more fun projects which go along with what we have to learn. For example, if we are learning about simple machines, we can fit in a fun project where everyone works together to make a machine using pulleys, inclined planes, or more. I’m not exactly that sure if we do these sort of projects in GNT because no one has ever told me and I haven’t been in GNT for very long. If we don’t do these sort of projects and experiments, then I think that we totally should. Why? Well, based off of many students’ views, many like to learn when they have fun learning and also when they do it as a group. Although GNT class is fun already, his would make things even better. Finally, an addition I would like to add would be something where we can express our thoughts. We can do something like a book club or keep a journal to write down our thoughts and share them to the class. This has 3 benefits: it improves writing skills, improves your public-speaking skills, and it lets you express your thoughts. Not only would this be educational, it would be fun, too. That is another good side to this. For the book club, students can take turn choosing books and Mrs. Mandell can choose, too. She can even read and discuss the book as well. In conclusion, these are 3 ideas I would add to our GNT class to make it ideal in my perspective. Doing projects on history or writing essays on the chromebooks is fine, but why not add a little pizzazz to writing essays and turning it into “fun-says”, a combination of fun and essays. GNT classes would be three times a week and it would have work that is advanced of what the students would normally teach to push students to work harder. These would some fun creative ideas I would have in an ideal GNT classroom. They would be fun, yet educational for the students. The classroom would also have book clubs or writing journals so students can express their thoughts. Wait! I saved the best detail for last. My ideal GNT classroom would have an awesome GNT teacher like Mrs. Mandell.
G&T is a great class! Gifted and Talented classes allow a select few students to learn and discuss about things happening in the outside world in a fun way, giving students a vacation away from the boring everyday math, language arts, science, and social studies. My ideal G&T classroom would be full of entertainment; more fun, less learning! I’m just kidding, of course. The learning and fun would be equally balanced so that G&T class is enjoyable all the time. First off, let’s start with a brief explanation of the class schedules. G&T would be open all days that Mrs. Mandell is in school, and the students can go whenever they want if their teacher allows them to go. The student will miss whatever is going on in their class, but who wouldn’t want to go to a more amusing class instead of a normal and tedious class? This would, however, cause problems; thus, students have a maximum of three days every two weeks. The minimum amount of days a student must go to G&T each week is one day, much like the current G&T schedule. Every new day in G&T, something new would be taught. This way, students will be able to learn things currently occurring in the outside world, and at a fast pace too. Soon, the students would know almost as much as adults do about the news. Also, it would help students who had not been there the class before. I know we’ve all had that moment when you were absent previously, and once class started, you had no idea what everyone was talking about. On the other hand, you won’t even have to think about what happened during the last G&T class when you were absent or just chose not to go. However, it is needless to say that this rule wouldn’t apply to days where students no doubt need more time to work on an assignment. In order to make class less stressing (if it ever does, although I doubt that’ll ever happen), there will be a small station somewhere in the classroom where students can postpone their work, sit or lay down, and just relax while doing anything that they like, such as reading a book, listening to music from the chrome books or watching a bit of TV. I think that this will help students to feel much more at ease and will do better on their work not only in G&T, but in the classes ahead during that day, since humans naturally can do things more easily if they are content and relaxed. There would also occasionally be some educational games so that learning can be fun – literally! As a final addition, students would be able to surf the internet when they have nothing to do/finished all their work. Obviously, the things they’re looking at have to be school-appropriate, but who doesn’t love surfing the web when they’re bored? Sadly, this class would most likely never exist because most of my ideal class probably goes against school rules.
There are many ways to make a customized and personal GnT classroom. For me the ideal GnT classroom is one where the students get free time to themselves. In this free time students can either read a book or browse on the computer. I believe that it is the little things in life that make a person happy. So having 15 minutes each day at any point during class to either read a book, browse on the chromebooks, and write about their feelings. This eases the workload on students and gives them a little time after their work to relax and take a break. Having this freedom is a great idea to implement in any Google classroom and can make anyone's day better, including the teacher's. Next, I feel as if in some GnT classes the teachers teach the students what comes straight out of the book. Teachers should provide a day where the students do activities about the topic they are researching. For example, in 5th grade we did an assignment in which we were learning about architecture and building. The teacher at that time gave us a few interesting activities in which we built stuff. One table which was my favorite included the students using marshmallows and spaghetti to create a building and the tallest one would win. Fun things like that to spice up the classroom make a student and even me more interested in learning the topic. To add on, a GnT classroom should be a comfortable environment. It should have bean bag chairs and pillows that we could use while reading that make it more comfortable. This doesn't bore the students as they are in a comfy chair rather than straight up in a desk. This provides an aspect of relaxation and can also make some students enjoy their time spent reading. Also, I feel as if a GnT classroom should have some nice rewards. Maybe a piece of candy for doing something extra or some time of treasure if you earn it. However, doing something like this does not come easily. The student should show a good manner during class and seem to engage themselves in the topic at hand. Another reward can also be something of value like a ticket that can be used for a reward if earned. Doing some program like this will be very exciting and the students will be able to improve themselves in order to earn the candy or whatever the prize may be. Finally, I think the GnT classroom should have a little pet. Something not that hard to take care of and doesn't need to be extremely expensive to have. Maybe like a fish, that we have now, or a guinea pig. This is a lovely treat for the students who come to class everyday. I remember in 4th grade my class had a guinea pig. Each student had a week to take care of it and go there in back of the class in the morning to feed it and take care of it. After I left 4th grade the teacher took out the guinea pig and replaced it with a tank of fish and frogs as well as a little basket of turtles. All in all, I believe that a GnT classroom from my perspective should have comfortable seats, a reward system, pets, and free time for the students to do what they want. Maybe you will take some of these ideas even though they may seem crazy and dial them down a little bit so that they can be implemented into our classroom. What would your ideal GnT classroom be?
Salma Ghazi
ReplyDeleteGNT is an opportunity that only a few select students can obtain. Its another thing if you could customize it too make it your own. To start, my ideal GNT classroom would be an all day program. My mother was also in GNT at my age. She was talking about it and her GNT class was a full day. In our school, each GNT class is one block each. This isn’t the only thing, however. Something else that would be in my ideal GNT classroom is to do things that and learn things that we wouldn’t usually learn in 7th grade.I’m not exactly sure what I’ll learn as I’ve never been in GNT or PEG. I'm not sure what to expect, but I hope it's different than all my other classes in 7th grade. I think that this class shouldn’t teach students things that they would learn anyway. What else would I like in an ideal classroom. Technology. I think technology is a big advancement in school. It may act up at sometimes, but I believe it has more overall advantages over disadvantages. While I don't want it to turn into a google classroom, I think it would be fun to use some technology in class. It's still, however, important to communicate and learn without a screen. I also want to involve current events in our classrooms. Especially with the current election, and other things happening, there's a lot of things we can learn. As seventh graders, we’re well past the age that we should be learning about the world around us. It's important that all students know this information, because we are the future and it's important to know these things if we are going to grow up to be a good community and a good citizen. I want GNT to be a fun experience. While I know that it is a class, I want to be able to do a lot of fun activities, unlike math or language arts classes. Which such a small class, there is much potential to do things usually impossible for most teachers. Everyone in GNT is smart and with students like the ones in our GNT class much is achievable that is usually not in normal classes
I also want to be challenged. If this class is easy, I’ll probably be a little disappointed.GNT is supposed to be a class for more advanced students, and I want to know my limits, as well as break them. You might think this is the last thing any student would say, but I'm weird. I can’t forget to add that I hope we can explore a large range and variety of topics. There's just so much to explore in our world, but so little time to learn about it all. Most importantly, I would want a fun GNT classroom where we can laugh, learn, and have fun. Hopefully at least some of these things happen this year. I think most of these things are doable and realistic. I’m expecting to learn a lot this year. I can’t wait to see what’s in store for this year in GNT.
My ideal G&T classroom is so unrealistic that your mind will be blown. (You said it was an IDEAL classroom not a REALISTIC classroom.) Do not calculate how much this would cost it would just give you a headache. You have been warned…
ReplyDeleteIn the back of my mind, I’ve always thought about the perfect classroom. Most people will look at this assignment and think about things inside a normal budget. I’m not one of those people. It’s either go big or go home and by big I mean thrice the size of the gym – no – the size of two schools combined. At this point it doesn’t even seem like a classroom. It seems more like a school or a building. Let’s look at the definition of the word “classroom”. According to Google, a classroom is “a room, typically in a school, in which a class of students is taught.” It’s technically a room because it won’t have any doors or walls separating it so there’s no denying that this humungous room is a classroom.
Now, I’ll explain the contents of this beautiful classroom. This classroom will have hundreds of books from a book about paint drying to a book about unicorns. This will take up about a quarter of the classroom (which is about the size of 15 regular-sized classrooms combined). G&T students could use this as a library instead of the school library because these books will be in top-condition unlike some library books.
Another feature in this classroom will be a music station. In this section people will listen to music and do their work at the same time. There will be 4 speakers spread about 15 feet apart from each other. If you choose not to listen to that music you can use your phone in this area and listen to your own music. This is the perfect place for music lovers.
An area in this beautiful G&T classroom will be the electronics area. These days, people are using technology for everything, even for school purposes. For example, what you’re reading right now is on a computer or an electronic device and it is used for school purposes. In this section, you will do anything that involves electronics as long as you it’s educational. You can do anything from coding to doing typing exercises. It doesn’t matter as long as you’re learning something.
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DeleteDon’t you want to relax once in a while? Students need a break from their busy day. This area of the classroom would be naptime area. This section is exactly how it sounds like – a place to nap. There will be a limit of four people in the naptime area. There are 3 beds and 3 beanbag chairs to relax on. You can also bring the books from the library mentioned earlier in this section. There’s not much learning in this section except for learning about R.E.M.
ReplyDeleteThe next section is another relaxing area. It’s the place I like to call “the food court”. In this place there will be a wide selection of food from a cupcake to caviar. To get the food won’t be easy though. If you want food you have to do a worksheet, a riddle, or a super complex problem. For example, if you want a slice of pie, you would have to do a worksheet. If you wanted a fancy food like Crème Brûlée, you’d have to do a worksheet, a long complex problem, and a riddle. The simpler the food is, the less you have to do. The upside is there’s no fee! This puts two of the best things together – learning and eating!
The final component in this classroom is the actual room where Ms. Mandell would teach. If Ms. Mandell had a lesson planned out, she would call all of us to this area. Instead of normal chairs and desks, it would have soft beanbag chairs and a small desk to go with it. This would make learning lessons more fun. The projector’s projection will be three times larger than what it is right now. There will also be an 80 inch flat screen TV in this awesome area. Students would be excited to learn in this environment.
Isn’t this quite a classroom? Many teachers would say “Of course not! If you have some of these sections, people will hang out in that section all the time!” That’s why I limited the amount of time at each station equally. People will be at each station for about 13 minutes. For the last 6 minutes of class, students can go to any station they want. I like this idea and it would be amazing if this would happen (even though it’s probably not going to happen but let a girl dream). This is my dream classroom and I really wish we had the budget to create this classroom. We can probably have a scaled-down, version though! Even though all this sounds great, there is one thing that I don’t like about this G&T classroom – it’s not the G&T classroom that we have right now!
Gifted and talented, also known as GNT, is a class where students get the opportunity to learn a variety of different topics, which we wouldn’t normally learn in our other classes. It allows students to do learn and have fun over a wide range of topics. While we learn, we enjoy being there and have lots of fun. However, as a student, I do have a few ideas to what my ideal GNT classroom would be. I don’t mean that we should change GNT class completely. I am expressing my ideas to what my thought of an ideal GNT class would be.
ReplyDeleteTo start off, in my GNT classroom, we’d meet 3 days per week. In my opinion, I love GNT. I know this would mean we’d get more work, but just think about all the possibilities of things we could get done and also learn if we met 3 times a week! We could do on day on science and history, another day on math and language arts, and and the third day, we would just combine everything and learn! That way we could learn more about different topics and also have more time. I am expecting myself to do better and to do better, I have to push myself. Furthermore, I believe that by extending GNT classes per week, I would be able to push myself.
Not only that, I believe that we should do more fun projects which go along with what we have to learn. For example, if we are learning about simple machines, we can fit in a fun project where everyone works together to make a machine using pulleys, inclined planes, or more. I’m not exactly that sure if we do these sort of projects in GNT because no one has ever told me and I haven’t been in GNT for very long. If we don’t do these sort of projects and experiments, then I think that we totally should. Why? Well, based off of many students’ views, many like to learn when they have fun learning and also when they do it as a group. Although GNT class is fun already, his would make things even better.
Finally, an addition I would like to add would be something where we can express our thoughts. We can do something like a book club or keep a journal to write down our thoughts and share them to the class. This has 3 benefits: it improves writing skills, improves your public-speaking skills, and it lets you express your thoughts. Not only would this be educational, it would be fun, too. That is another good side to this. For the book club, students can take turn choosing books and Mrs. Mandell can choose, too. She can even read and discuss the book as well.
In conclusion, these are 3 ideas I would add to our GNT class to make it ideal in my perspective. Doing projects on history or writing essays on the chromebooks is fine, but why not add a little pizzazz to writing essays and turning it into “fun-says”, a combination of fun and essays. GNT classes would be three times a week and it would have work that is advanced of what the students would normally teach to push students to work harder. These would some fun creative ideas I would have in an ideal GNT classroom. They would be fun, yet educational for the students. The classroom would also have book clubs or writing journals so students can express their thoughts. Wait! I saved the best detail for last. My ideal GNT classroom would have an awesome GNT teacher like Mrs. Mandell.
G&T is a great class! Gifted and Talented classes allow a select few students to learn and discuss about things happening in the outside world in a fun way, giving students a vacation away from the boring everyday math, language arts, science, and social studies. My ideal G&T classroom would be full of entertainment; more fun, less learning! I’m just kidding, of course. The learning and fun would be equally balanced so that G&T class is enjoyable all the time.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, let’s start with a brief explanation of the class schedules. G&T would be open all days that Mrs. Mandell is in school, and the students can go whenever they want if their teacher allows them to go. The student will miss whatever is going on in their class, but who wouldn’t want to go to a more amusing class instead of a normal and tedious class? This would, however, cause problems; thus, students have a maximum of three days every two weeks. The minimum amount of days a student must go to G&T each week is one day, much like the current G&T schedule.
Every new day in G&T, something new would be taught. This way, students will be able to learn things currently occurring in the outside world, and at a fast pace too. Soon, the students would know almost as much as adults do about the news. Also, it would help students who had not been there the class before. I know we’ve all had that moment when you were absent previously, and once class started, you had no idea what everyone was talking about. On the other hand, you won’t even have to think about what happened during the last G&T class when you were absent or just chose not to go. However, it is needless to say that this rule wouldn’t apply to days where students no doubt need more time to work on an assignment.
In order to make class less stressing (if it ever does, although I doubt that’ll ever happen), there will be a small station somewhere in the classroom where students can postpone their work, sit or lay down, and just relax while doing anything that they like, such as reading a book, listening to music from the chrome books or watching a bit of TV. I think that this will help students to feel much more at ease and will do better on their work not only in G&T, but in the classes ahead during that day, since humans naturally can do things more easily if they are content and relaxed. There would also occasionally be some educational games so that learning can be fun – literally!
As a final addition, students would be able to surf the internet when they have nothing to do/finished all their work. Obviously, the things they’re looking at have to be school-appropriate, but who doesn’t love surfing the web when they’re bored? Sadly, this class would most likely never exist because most of my ideal class probably goes against school rules.
There are many ways to make a customized and personal GnT classroom. For me the ideal GnT classroom is one where the students get free time to themselves. In this free time students can either read a book or browse on the computer. I believe that it is the little things in life that make a person happy. So having 15 minutes each day at any point during class to either read a book, browse on the chromebooks, and write about their feelings. This eases the workload on students and gives them a little time after their work to relax and take a break. Having this freedom is a great idea to implement in any Google classroom and can make anyone's day better, including the teacher's.
ReplyDeleteNext, I feel as if in some GnT classes the teachers teach the students what comes straight out of the book. Teachers should provide a day where the students do activities about the topic they are researching. For example, in 5th grade we did an assignment in which we were learning about architecture and building. The teacher at that time gave us a few interesting activities in which we built stuff. One table which was my favorite included the students using marshmallows and spaghetti to create a building and the tallest one would win. Fun things like that to spice up the classroom make a student and even me more interested in learning the topic.
To add on, a GnT classroom should be a comfortable environment. It should have bean bag chairs and pillows that we could use while reading that make it more comfortable. This doesn't bore the students as they are in a comfy chair rather than straight up in a desk. This provides an aspect of relaxation and can also make some students enjoy their time spent reading.
Also, I feel as if a GnT classroom should have some nice rewards. Maybe a piece of candy for doing something extra or some time of treasure if you earn it. However, doing something like this does not come easily. The student should show a good manner during class and seem to engage themselves in the topic at hand. Another reward can also be something of value like a ticket that can be used for a reward if earned. Doing some program like this will be very exciting and the students will be able to improve themselves in order to earn the candy or whatever the prize may be.
Finally, I think the GnT classroom should have a little pet. Something not that hard to take care of and doesn't need to be extremely expensive to have. Maybe like a fish, that we have now, or a guinea pig. This is a lovely treat for the students who come to class everyday. I remember in 4th grade my class had a guinea pig. Each student had a week to take care of it and go there in back of the class in the morning to feed it and take care of it. After I left 4th grade the teacher took out the guinea pig and replaced it with a tank of fish and frogs as well as a little basket of turtles.
All in all, I believe that a GnT classroom from my perspective should have comfortable seats, a reward system, pets, and free time for the students to do what they want. Maybe you will take some of these ideas even though they may seem crazy and dial them down a little bit so that they can be implemented into our classroom. What would your ideal GnT classroom be?
Excellent ideas, ladies and gent! I WILL DEFINITELY IMPLEMENT THEM!
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