All the first graders in Jean Duran’s class at River Grove School outside Chicago knew the drill: when they were gathered on the multi-colored carpet at the front of the room, they had to pay strict ...

The guiding principles of classroom design are changing. New models for small to medium classrooms, coupled with ever-shifting educational technology practices, are requiring guidelines serve to ...

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Nowadays, many students have behavioral difficulties: lack of concentration, limited autonomy, incessant chatter, etc. What if part of the solution lay in the ergonomics and layout of a classroom?

Like a jazz dance performance, active learning combines doing, movement and impromptu variety in a way that gets students and faculty up and out of their usual positions in the classroom. The room and ...

For decades, curriculum, pedagogy, and technology have evolved to meet the changing needs of students. But in many schools, the classroom environment itself hasn’t kept pace. Classic layouts that ...

Working in the education design space collectively for 26 years, we understand students and teachers need environments to support learning. Classrooms should be designed for listening and engagement; ...

After studying 3,766 students and 153 classrooms in 27 primary schools across the United Kingdom, researchers from the University of Salford have found that simple changes to classroom design can have ...

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