Sentences with phrase «traditional classrooms these spaces»

Classroom design expert Anita Olds (1979) notes some of the problems in traditional classroom spaces:

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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.

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.

We wanted to create large, column - free spaces, and the ubiquitous layout of traditional schools — perimeter classrooms bisected by a common hallway — made that goal expensive or impossible.

While searching for precedents for Intrinsic, we encountered several schools that had merely knocked down walls between traditional classrooms to create larger spaces.

We have the collaborative space which is quite big, it's probably the size of two traditional classrooms, where the furniture and technology is set up so kids can collaborate and work together.

Schools are also using their kitchen and gardens as spaces to help students who nd the traditional classroom setting challenging, including students with special needs or behavioural disorders.

So, it's having flexible spaces that can be used for a variety of functions - moving away from traditional, cellular classroom blocks.

These big - ticket items point out the need for better up - front planning and strategy around training teachers to successfully implement personalized learning, as well as the need to carefully think through the costs of creating spaces that are better suited to personalized learning, where students are often required to move in ways that don't fit the traditional classroom design.

Teachers Trade Space, Traditional Fixtures for Fitness Teachers in North Carolina have made room for exercise bikes in their classrooms.

The active classroom solutions that are coming out of the Future Classroom Lab's work will need more space than traditional content - driven classrooms — and a requirement to shift away from the rectangle: rectangular buildings with rectangular classrooms full of rectangular furniture.

Instead of walking into a traditional classroom, you join 100 of your peers in the school's math center, which is a large open space.

The Ørestad Gymnasium (designed by 3xn) is completely free of the traditional, walled - in classrooms, in favor of an open space where all activities are visible to everybody in order to «facilitate communication and inspire each other.»

The school will have the equivalent of 47 traditional classrooms with open and informal learning areas, practical activities areas, seminar and presentation spaces.

In particular, we have seen significant growth with our range for primary schools as they break away from the traditional classroom and invest in quality furniture which allows more flexible learning spaces.»

Over the last few years, our middle school science classrooms have evolved from traditional spaces into an individualized learning environments.

The project team say students have been particularly positive about the collaborative learning spaces outside the traditional classrooms, such as student lounge areas, reading nooks and media booths, and the rooftop garden.

Traditional spaces are frustrating for those trying to create the kind of classroom environment that takes each of these into consideration and deliver innovative programs.

Pointing to an incident at P.S. 194, a traditional district school in the Harlem section of the Big Apple, where three children forced a third - grade schoolmate to perform a sexual offense — as well as the fact that one of her schools, Success Academy Harlem 5, had only one incident of reported violence compared to 92 at the traditional district school with which it shares space — Moskowitz also declares that suspensions are critical to helping teachers gain the support they need to manage their classrooms.

However, the traditional classroom model made this all but impossible due to time and space constraints.

He has promised to charge rent to well - financed charter schools, which are privately run but publicly financed, for using public school buildings, and he has placed a moratorium on future requests for classroom space inside traditional district schools.

During the ISTE conference, she discussed how her school system is shifting from traditional industrial - style classrooms with desks arranged in rows to more flexible learning spaces that encourage the development of 21st - century skills.

Instead of traditional classrooms, large open areas with moveable furniture serve as «learning spaces» or «project areas.»

Teams of 150 - 180 students work with teachers in shared learning spaces with cutting - edge technologies that shift between traditional classrooms, Makeries, Collaboratories, The Gallery, and The Loft to support a student - centered approach to instruction.

In April 2017, In the Public Interest released a report revealing that a substantial portion of the more than $ 2.5 billion in tax dollars or taxpayer subsidized financing spent on California charter school facilities in the past 15 years has been misspent on: schools that underperformed nearby traditional public schools; schools built in districts that already had enough classroom space; schools that were found to have discriminatory enrollment policies; and in the worst cases, schools that engaged in unethical or corrupt practices.

June 13, 2013 (New York, NY)-- An average - sized New York charter school with 254 students in private space is diverting more than $ 515,000 each year out of the classroom to pay for facilities that traditional public schools get for free, according to a first - ever study released today about charter school facilities funding.