How classroom layout can help maximise pupils’ learning.
How should teachers organise their classrooms to maximise pupils’ learning? There are some tried and tested formulas? straight rows, grouped work at tables or working in pairs. Geoff Barton, headteacher at King Edward VI School in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, looks at the advantages and limitations of three ways of organising seating for pupils. While teachers may feel constrained by the shape of their classrooms or the school building, he encourages them to try different ways of boosting pupils’ learning and participation in class. This programme was created by the Video Request Service in direct response to a request from the Teachers TV audience.
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Inspiring, good ideas - just difficult if you have to share a class with various teachers teaching various classes across many year levels. However, I will train the students to move chairs and desk quickly every day and will implement in my class, so that I can leave the class set up for another teacher.
A very useful reminder of key ideas but I really felt that there was no recognition of some of the chronic conditions some staff have to work in. E.G; broken furniture, crowded rooms, poor decoration, faulty equipment and sheer numbers of students squeezed into inadequate spaces. Not to mention the real difficulties of working in lots of different rooms that are not your own!!!
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I like the the information and will keep these suggestions in mind for this fall.
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