It looked like a typical classroom Thanksgiving, replete with homemade pilgrim hats and apple pie, which was devoured off paper plates.

It is not, she said, "a typical classroom."

For example, a special education teacher may enter a typical classroom to deliver special services to children in need.

A typical classroom serves 20 to 30 children in mixed-age groups, staffed by one trained teacher and an assistant.

"In other schools, a typical classroom would have four computers, and everybody has to congregate around each of the machines or take turns."

The girls handle the typical teacher-centered, lecture-note-taking academic classroom far better than boys.

Activities are intended to be modified to meet the variety of learning styles and ability levels present in a typical classroom.

Or so it seems after a week spent watching Channel One inside a "typical" classroom.

The classroom has been fully restored to represent a typical classroom of the Victorian era.

What interesting teaching style or technique might a parent find while visiting a typical classroom in your school?