As the days pass by in the Innovation Academy, many of us have noticed that the classroom environment is definitely not appealing. We really are in desperate need for change! Last week I offered to plan the classroom project but we all needed to share our ideas for the classroom. From last two classes with Randy Scherer from High Tech High I noticed that communication and feedback was essential for everything you do so having a time during class when we all brainstormed ideas was very useful. After that we divided the class into three groups: walls, furniture, and others and this way we would somewhat become experts in these areas and see if it is feasible to make the changes we want to make.
The classroom environment will affect everyone in the class including our teacher so by listening to people's perspective of their "perfect" classroom was absolutely helpful for me to also evaluate how these changes can work together.
Here are some of our ideas for the furniture.
The classroom environment will affect everyone in the class including our teacher so by listening to people's perspective of their "perfect" classroom was absolutely helpful for me to also evaluate how these changes can work together.
Here are some of our ideas for the furniture.