The Classroom & the School

The Classroom & the School

Four key questions: 1) Does my classroom design reflect a welcoming learning environment?2) Does my classroom design represent the curriculum or theoretical perspective of the center? 3) How do the children in my class perceive the designed classroom? 4) What type of design characteristics do children in the environment prefer and why?

The Classroom & the School

• Classroom designs have changed dramatically from a silent classroom with desks in rows, to a classroom which is rich of vocabulary and co-operative learning with various arrangements of desks and learning spaces.

• High levels of visual stimuli can seem overwhelming to students

• Low levels of visual stimuli may seem less engaging to students

• Student opinion must be taken into consideration when setting up a classroom