As a classroom teacher, one of the most exciting aspects of starting a new school year is organizing
the classroom learning spaces.
The following are a few tips that you can use in your district offices,
classroom learning spaces, special classrooms, and open learning areas to make a positive impact on education.
Not exact matches
In the Netherlands, one school is taking
classroom tech to another level entirely by focusing on the way a
learning space is lit.
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Learning Center Wins «Top Real Estate Projects» Award The new home for Sonoma State University's Wine Business Institute includes the Wine Spectator
Learning Center, a state - of - the - art facility with
classrooms and outdoor
space that have capacity for more than 300 students, venues for public seminars and events, and technology to showcase the business of wine and hospitality...
Eight schools have edible
learning gardens which include fruit trees and bushes, outdoor
classroom space, compost bins, rain catchment systems, and weather stations.
All of what I envision — the shiny
classrooms, piles of books, and endless snack supply — lies in stark contrast to what I'm seeing on the ground in Ethiopia, whether at traditional schools or at the Population Council's safe
learning spaces for girls suffering in urban slums.
Our
classrooms are bright and sunny with huge windows looking into our
learning spaces.
A first - grade
classroom at Grand Island's Charlotte Sidway Elementary has been transformed into a «multi-sensory
learning space,» a design which encourages a variety of
learning styles — including fidgeting.
Weeks before the actual events, students
learned about the mission, its science theme, and
space - related careers through
classroom activities and videos developed by the Applied Physics Laboratory and Discovery Education.
I was in middle school, just starting to enjoy
learning, and had a hard time dealing with the idea that a teacher who was supposed to go into
space, then come back to share her experience with her
classroom and other
classrooms, now wasn't coming back at all.
We
learn in a two large open
classroom spaces and Mrs Kitto and Miss Tyrell are our teachers.
When she was younger, Tamara and her classmates would study in a
classroom, but these days
space restrictions mean the older kids are required to
learn outside.
«AV tools, approaches and technologies have the potential to open up
spaces for
learning opportunities in the
classroom for learners at all levels.
Also, your
classroom walls are important
learning real estate —
spaces to fill with content - related murals, posters, banners, whiteboards, and bulletin boards.
Watch a determined middle school teacher transform his crowded
classroom space to enable deeper
learning and effective teamwork — with help from his students, community volunteers, and a few experts.
In our elementary school
classrooms, we use AR to create active
learning experiences hitherto inconceivable, and in the process redefine the
learning space!
In response to this, we're now seeing teaching
spaces responding to this shift by investing heavily in device - agnostic, mobile - friendly, web - based platforms that can be used both in the
classroom and for home
learning.
Teachers in a startup culture can work together to build the
classroom «brand» through activities such as proudly displaying the mission in the students»
learning spaces, sharing messages of success on class websites and blogs, or designing a class logo and fun swag like t - shirts, water bottles, stickers, and pens.
This series of three videos shows how designers and community volunteers helped a teacher at Roosevelt Middle School in San Francisco transform his crowded
classroom into a
space that fosters collaboration, creativity, and active student
learning.
One specific method you can use to organize
classroom space involves organizing the
learning space into discrete zones with different purposes.
More importantly, he understood that
learning should not be confined to the
classroom, but rather must extend beyond the
classroom, into corridor
spaces (Lippman, 2013).
Firstly, to create an environment conducive to its students»
learning while also optimising all
spaces to save rebuilding
classroom space.
My personal take on the subject is that mobile games provide an amazing opportunity for effective and engaging
learning, free from
space and time restrictions, and pose great potential for adult learners as they allow flexible integration into everyday life, thus reducing barriers to entry compared to traditional
classroom settings.
I wanted to build what I now call a thinking
classroom — one that's not only conducive to thinking but also occasions thinking, a
space inhabited by thinking individuals as well as individuals thinking collectively,
learning together, and constructing knowledge and understanding through activity and discussion.
Rather than rows of students monotonously copying information from the whiteboard, the modern
classroom encourages working together in teams, such as in designs for smart, TEAL, or SCALE - UP
learning spaces.
The benefit of the iPad is that it can be one size fits each, with boundless opportunities for differentiated, customized and personalized
learning that gets kids out of their seats and
classrooms, and into open, flexible and modular
spaces.
Most
classrooms have flat, hard walls to post things on with little sound insulation between rooms (frequently I had teachers interrupt my
learning activity to tell me that we were being too loud), linoleum floors for easy cleaning, the ceiling tiles are rarely «acoustic,» and square configurations to maximize
space.
Havelock Europa's design service for
classroom layout included a series of bespoke teaching walls, the creation of general
classrooms, environments for the teaching of art and music, a nursery, two
learning spaces for special needs, staff facilities and a multi-purpose hall and dining area.
With their focus on inventiveness and collaboration, they also offer new ways of looking at
classroom or
learning -
space design.
The
classrooms, flooded with light, utilise
space to create different atmospheres, ideal to the school's holistic approach to
learning.
In this
space, students benefit from the co-location of complementary
learning and support facilities such as the library, the Learning and Teaching department, IT and AV support, classrooms and ca
learning and support facilities such as the library, the
Learning and Teaching department, IT and AV support, classrooms and ca
Learning and Teaching department, IT and AV support,
classrooms and cafeteria.
Space captures their imagination and allows us to help them make a connection between
classroom learning and the lifelong
learning that we're doing as a people.
Design thinking our way through making our own
learning space was, hands down, the hardest and best change that I ever made as a
classroom teacher.
The
classroom experience is thoroughly enhanced by the decision to concentrate architectural efforts on to the rear of the building, intertwining indoor and outdoor
learning spaces that have the ability to transform and facilitate
learning.
While a variety of platforms have been developed and tested in the eLearning
space - blended
learning, flipped
classrooms, gamified
learning,...
The school has done three iterations of the standard
learning spaces, which will replace the current
classrooms, and are delighted with the results.
Whether it's a complete playground transformation to provide a multi ‑ use games or play area (MUGA / MUPA), an outdoor
classroom for all - weather
learning or an update to existing
space or equipment, API members will make design recommendations based on expert knowledge and experience.
Although Intrinsic's main
learning spaces use an open plan, they differ from the «open
classrooms» of the 1960s and 1970s in important ways.
«If you're constantly in that
space of fear, there's no chance of being able to reach the content and the
learning that's going on in your
classroom,» says Tina Owen - Moore, who founded the Alliance School in Milwaukee with the explicit mission of providing an environment that would support LGBTQ students.
Other changes we can expect to see are more flexible
classrooms and new
learning spaces as educators become more nimble; adopting a range of new methods to teach in
classrooms including, writable desks, robots and AI.
But the opposite was true after I took a risk: instead of me decorating a
classroom for my students, we made a
learning space together.
What's exciting to see at this time of year is the growth of students and the evolution of the
classroom environment, which is due to the skill and care that teachers have put into creating and cultivating
learning spaces where students can try out ideas, take risks, explore their passions, and start putting together culminating projects to capture the various skills they have acquired in class.
Principal Tim Lauer, now in his seventh year at Lewis, has watched his outdoor
learning space expand to include raised garden beds, greenhouses, composting bins, and even an outdoor
classroom complete with eco-roof and barrels for harvesting rainwater.
We've recently worked with YPO to furnish parts of our school, improving our
classrooms and
learning spaces.
«As a result of [my mission to Huntsville],
classroom learning will be much more activity - based rather than theoretical - things like survivability, the history of
space flight, the equipment used... and I will expand on the NASA material to make lesson plans more interesting for the students.»
Whether you're a new or experienced teacher, having strategies for effective
classroom management is essential for creating positive, successful
learning spaces (and staying sane!).
So, the results were that the physical design factors associated with individual
classrooms account for explaining 16 per cent in the variation in
learning over a year, of the pupils in those
spaces; so, 16 per cent is a lot.
The latter is the subject of her dissertation, where she looked at whether college
classrooms can be optimal
spaces for meaningful
learning — and teaching — about race.
Nadia Lopez (@TheLopezEffect) shares strategies that revolutionized how her scholars approached
learning, including
learning spaces «where risks were applauded,» with «co-operative
learning to encourage collaboration» and a scholar - centered approach allowing «each individual to contribute to the
classroom dialogue and work towards the goal of completing a task collectively.»
And when they're in a
classroom space, which can be a kind of sacred
space, being listened to, where no questions are stupid, it resonates that this is a real
learning environment and education is deeply transformative.»