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 different approaches to learning and provide learning spaces that complement this.
An innovative learning environment is broken up into areas that acknowledge the needs of all aspects of the learning programme and learning approaches. Part of the challenge of the innovative learning environment is to ensure that the furniture can work for the entire cross section of the class.
Click below to look at:
1) Research into 'Innovative Learning Environments' by Mark Osborne (2019)
2) Three New Zealand School Case Studies of a Modern Learning Environment.
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 different approaches to learning and provide learning spaces that complement this.
An innovative learning environment is broken up into areas that acknowledge the needs of all aspects of the learning programme and learning approaches. Part of the challenge of the innovative learning environment is to ensure that the furniture can work for the entire cross section of the class.
Click below to look at:
1) Research into 'Innovative Learning Environments' by Mark Osborne (2019)
2) Three New Zealand School Case Studies of a Modern Learning Environment.
