Contextualizing why environmental design needs to be a critical part of learning and teaching and how is often not focused enough on. Inspire teachers to see their physical spaces as a key part of their teaching.
4:52 minutes
Clarify the aspects of design and the prioritization in having the greatest impact on teaching and learning
Find a link to your workbook in the list of school folders to the left. You can fill out the worksheets after each module, or watch all the modules and then go back to fill them out. The workbook is meant to be a tool to help you capture your thinking in a way that is meaningful to you.
7:04 minutes
To share some critical research on key environmental design components helping inform how teachers view their spaces
The Research Video page (2) in your workbook
12:29 minutes
Inspiration and seeing how spaces are re-designed in support of their vision
3:03 minutes
Create a vision statement to ground the classroom design process
The Space Vision page (3 & 4) in your workbook
7:04 minutes
Fundamental environmental design concept that will allow teachers to understand their spaces and student interactions in it differently
The Three Learning Spaces Elements page (5) in your workbook
Defines critical mindsets necessary to design inspiring, equitable, and engaging spaces and the mindsets necessary to effectively to teach in these spaces
Addition by Subtraction
Push vs. Pull
Equity & Agency
Process vs. Product
The Mindsets page (6) in your workbook
9:36 minutes
Some tricks for your classrooms.
The 5 Tips and Tricks page (7) in your workbook
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