Innovative Learning Environments
The vision of the New Zealand Curriculum wants young people who will be confident, connected, actively involved, lifelong learners. The Key Competencies want children who can manage self and children who can relate to others.
Research shows that children learn in different ways and therefore the traditional way that we have approached teaching and learning has to adapt as well. Turning the model around requires a complete rethink on teachers teaching styles and breaking down the mental models of how kids learn, and how parents think they learn. Why then do we place children in desks, rows, tables when we know they learn in different ways? If we value our learners we must value their preferred approaches to learning and provide learning spaces that complement this.
The connected classroom is broken up into areas that acknowledge the needs of all aspects of the learning programme and learning styles. Part of the challenge of the connected classroom is to ensure that the furniture can work for the entire cross section of the class.
Click here to look at three New Zealand School Case Studies of a Modern Learning Environment.
Click on the images below to access a series of videos and other resources that look at the different considerations of developing an 'agile and flexible' learning environment from the inside out! (Dr Julia Atkin)
Research shows that children learn in different ways and therefore the traditional way that we have approached teaching and learning has to adapt as well. Turning the model around requires a complete rethink on teachers teaching styles and breaking down the mental models of how kids learn, and how parents think they learn. Why then do we place children in desks, rows, tables when we know they learn in different ways? If we value our learners we must value their preferred approaches to learning and provide learning spaces that complement this.
The connected classroom is broken up into areas that acknowledge the needs of all aspects of the learning programme and learning styles. Part of the challenge of the connected classroom is to ensure that the furniture can work for the entire cross section of the class.
Click here to look at three New Zealand School Case Studies of a Modern Learning Environment.
Click on the images below to access a series of videos and other resources that look at the different considerations of developing an 'agile and flexible' learning environment from the inside out! (Dr Julia Atkin)
