This quick and easy tool allows you to set up your classroom before moving things around! Check it out – super helpful for designing seating arrangements.
Lets keep in mind messages from Kid President when designing spaces for our students to learn in!
The Open Classroom: A Practical Guide to a New Way of Teaching
This book explores the concept of an open classroom, what that definition entails, examples of what open classrooms look like, and how to facilitate one yourself. Check out this book Herbert R. Kohl if you are interested in the ideas of an open classroom!
Educational Issues, School Settings, and Environmental Psychology
This paper reviews classrooms as places for learning, socialization and as places for psychological development. Issues explored deal with the impact of noise and classroom design on learning; the relationship between seating position, achievement and status; spatial cognition; the classroom environment and sex role stereotyping; privacy; and density.
This paper explores how classroom environments impacts behaviour, attitudes, involvement, and achievement or students with auditory impairments. Environmental aspects considered include, seating positions, classroom design, density, privacy, noise, and the presence or absence of windows. The research also considers ecological perspectives, as well as open school designs.
“Do we fit the child to the school, or make the school fit the child?” -John Dewey
Classroom Environments 