Call to the classroom phone: Such calls to teachers’ classroom phones—whether from the front office to ask if a student is in class or from another classroom to request an extra textbook—represented ...

This model of classroom participation is common, despite decades of research suggesting we do away with it. I used it all the time, and would be now if I were teaching still. But it's ineffective.

During the week, a voice comes over the intercom system toward the end of the lunch break at 1:17 p.m. to announce “Utouto Time is about to begin.” A designated student in a classroom for ...