07/05/13

The ideal classroom - Educational Science closing seminar

What is the ideal classroom settings and place arrangement in 21 century?
In order to answer that question I think we should consider several aspects.
1) age of the group and size
2) material and space what a teacher would need
3) the activities that a teacher would be doing in that space.

The exercise was fun. Pity that we had only 10´ to produce something but now that I have time I think that having the perfect learning environment is almost impossible to have. In our presentations we all of us had this teacher center classroom instead of students. Many time classroom are arranged that way: I work in 7 different schools and most of them have (what I call) the top 3:
teacher, board (On the teacher side) and desk (Better if individual desks).

In my ideal classroom I wanted to have a round table built from singles one. In this way is easier to separate them during test time for instance. The round table will help the collaborative learning.
Each desk surfice is made by a screen touch computer connected with the screen touch teacher computer. People don´t need to look at the board they have only to look down. In every station there headphones where students can listen as much as they need dialogues if they are learning languages.

In a corner of the class is going to be an inside garden (preferably) next to the big window. All the material is done with ecological material.
At the end of the class there is an area with big pillows and a library shelf with the classics of international literature. This idea comes from my experience with some adult students that actually they didn´t read at school any classic. I think it´s time to introduce that kind of aspect in Finnish school system.

In one wall is going to be an interactive window where every day come different art pictures from all over the word (Picasso, Leonardo and many others) in order to let the students to get to know a bit about art.

So actually my class is a language/culture lab that can be used with adult and young students that need to learn a foreigner language. Educational Science course was well organized and the today session very useful. The second block of the session was "try to guess to which theorist a classroom drawing belong to". I did miss in the first drawing the TV (small and in the corner) so my guess Montessori was wrong.
The second drawing I was correct. The third and fourth Skinner and Piaget.
Between all these theorists probably what I am bringing with me the idea of how important is the collaborative learning. I also enjoyed very much the idea of teaching video and comments there. I was looking for that kind of experiences when I started these studies and so I did.

In here some pictures of my ideal classroom.





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