meeting the teachers

meets the teachers

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To ensure that the competition brief was focused on the real needs of teachers and students, moving education went back to school…

We spent time observing a range of different behaviours happening in a variety of learning spaces. We saw…

Students doing

manual work

sitting down

Students kneeling on the floor to get level with their work

Students swinging around to speak to their piers

Teachers are resource hungry and time poor

Classrooms are often cramped spaces

Bags stored on chairs, under feet, on desks

Cables stretched between a work bench and a desk

A student with severe dyslexia moving throughout the class

A variety of different classroom types (old, new, oblong, square)

Students standing with more active tasks

Class periods are extremely short

Then moving education spent time listening to teachers and finding out more about their needs

We heard that…

My challenge

is to try and

reclaim floor

space

Technology is already having an impact on the need for storage

Teachers lack exposure. They like to share new ways of doing things.

Chewing Gum makes a difference to students concentration

I use my car as a storage space between classes

I promote small exercises in the class to help students energy levels

Junior cycle and Senior cycle students have very different needs

Flipping classroom is impeded by the current furniture

Locker areas can be a place where bullying happens. . .

It’s not a question of if epads are introduced it’s when...

I’m interested in improving social spaces for senior students...

Information on good furniture is scarce in Ireland

Class periods are too short to reconfigure furniture layout

These visits helped moving education learn more about four research themes

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To deep dive even further into these areas, moving education invited four of the teachers we’d met to a workshop

Becky

Glenda

Noel

Sue

We structured a day of talking and doing. It went like this…

Phase 1Collect

Using post-it notes, we shared

what we had learned from our

visits with the teachers…

…and invited them to challenge our understanding or add to what moving education had already learned

Phase 2Curate

Teachers were then invited

to arrange the post-it notes

according to the four themes

Phase 3Create

Teachers were given an exercise that challenged them to come up with new ideas around movement

This kind of exercise

helped make the conversation more tangible

Capture

The four teachers were then given an opportunity to reflect as a group and capture what they had learned

moving education learned that…

Collaborating with teachers made it possible for moving education to develop a brief that focused on real needs.

moving education learned that…

We would like to thank Becky, Glenda, Noel and Sue for helping moving education go back to school.

Becky

Glenda

Noel

Sue

moving education learned that…

thank you!

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