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Brenda just laid the August issue of THE Journal on my desk. Glancing over at it, I saw the headline, “Not Your Father’s Classroom,” with a photo of “modern” classroom, evidently from the Columbus Signature Academy.
What strikes me about the room is how much it reminds me of the classrooms I visited back in the 1990s down in Beaufort, South Carolina, where they were instituting one of the earliest 1:1 initiatives that I was aware of. It seemed that the ubiquitous access to information and information tools (I do not believe that they had Internet) demanded that students face each rather than facing the teacher.
This is not to say that the teacher was not a central character in the classroom. It’s just that they were not, necessarily in the middle of the classroom.
I’ve got some reading for the flight to St. Louis tomorrow.
Hmm. Methinks there are some times when you do NOT want students facing each other. Flexibility is key.
Tis true! I did notice that the tables had wheels. Sadly, the chairs did not. But we don’t want rocket propelled students, do we? 😉
I started teaching in an “open concept” school – no walls. But we all taught like 19th century teachers. So, it’s not the school, it’s the teacher.
I couldn’t agree with you more. I suspect that we started teaching around the same time (1970s). So perhaps the question is, “Which comes first?” Is it the teaching style (style of learning promoted by the teacher) that will rearrange the classroom? Or will rearranging the classroom promote a more creative, collaborative, and community expanding style of learning? The first is almost certainly true. I suspect that the second may be true, but only with willing teachers and adventurous learners.
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