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What to consider for the nooks of the room
What to consider for the nooks of the room
How do you create intimate private spaces of learning in the classroom?
Consider how you are support self regulation and supporting collaboration so that learners can manage the emotionally complex work of learning.
Access Check:
Access Check:
Can everyone physically access intimate spaces?
Do learners have the freedom to regulate their own learning?
Does everyone have support to regulate?
Are the full range of emotional reactions valued?
“When [students] find the environment threatening on an emotional level, they will not be able to leverage instruction in the service of learning, even if the instruction is well designed.”
–Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice
“When we educators fail to appreciate the importance of students' emotions, we fail to appreciate a critical force in students' learning. One could argue, in fact, that we fail to appreciate the very reason that students learn at all."
-Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
To Support Self Regulation in the Nooks of the Room consider...
To Support Self Regulation in the Nooks of the Room consider...
Creating shared language and supports around emotion
Sharing language that promote a growth orientation
Prompting reflection in many different forms - written, audio, video
“A system that sets people against each other fundamentally misunderstands the dynamics that drive achievement. Education thrives on partnership and collaboration."
-Ken Robinson
“Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing by ourselves."
-Paul Solarz
To Support Collaboration in the Nooks of the Room consider...
To Support Collaboration in the Nooks of the Room consider...
Creating shared shared expectations for collaboration, including different modes of collaborating like offering feedback, consulting, interviewing
Creating shared and regular structures for collaboration
Creating sentence starters to support deeper questioning and discussion
COLLABORATE
COLLABORATE
Interview a colleague:
What is your design challenge?
How do you hope students will interact with the learning environment?
What barriers are getting in the way? Consult the UDL guidelines - What options might minimize those barriers?
Read the UDL Learning Spaces Idea Kit with a colleague. Choose three cards to explore and use for brainstorming.
DESIGN
DESIGN
Choose a space in your classroom to consider. Use the Learning Environment Map to build and experiment In that space, what barriers do you want to address? What new predictable options could you offer?
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