Classroom Close-up NJ is a half-hour television program that features innovative projects in New Jersey public schools. The 15-time Emmy® award-winning show is in its 23rd season and airs on NJTV every Sunday at 7:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The show is the only television program in the country devoted to featuring the positive things happening in public schools. Here you can watch and download current shows, search for stories that have aired the past two decades, become a fan, view the photo gallery, and check out the schedule and monthly guide.
Segment A:
Gateway to Careers - Gateway Regional High School focuses on a comprehensive career development plan starting in seventh grade and ending with a meaningful internship in the student's field of interest. Melissa Eckstein, a career counselor, coordinates career days, organizes field trips that help students with career readiness, and works with teachers who offer soft skills such as interviewing, writing resumes, and honing interpersonal relationship skills.
Segment B:
Lessons in Medicine - Medicine is an ever growing field and a great opportunity for the future employment, but students at Cherry Hill High School West have the opportunity to see if it is a good fit. In only its second year, Cherry Hill West has a partnership with Virtua Hospital where students spend two days a week attending labs, observing virtual surgeries, doing clerical work and understanding what it takes to be a nurse.
Segment C:
Zero Period - Zero Period is a student application based program at Roselle Park High School which meets during a full classroom period prior to homeroom. Classes taught before school during Zero Period include: STEM Explorations, accelerated physics, bio-chemistry and RPTV, the morning TV program. The quality of relationships built by the teachers is the most impressive quality of Zero Period. This is a great way for the students to earn extra credits for graduation.
Segment D:
LCMR Beekeepers - Students in Karren Barr's biology and flower shop classes at Lower Cape May Regional High School are learning about the importance of bees and how to become beekeepers. In the winter of 2006, the honey bee population began to die out. Since then, as much as 70 percent of some bee populations have died as a result of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Seventy farm grown crops, about one-third of the natural food supply, rely on honey bees for pollination. The students have learned that they can help restore the honey bee population with a bee-friendly garden.
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