CLASSROOM DESIGN

What are two ways classroom design has changed over the past twenty year?

Well there two ways of classroom design, these are: Traditional classroom design and nontraditional classroom design.

Traditional classroom design: This classroom has, at its core, a design that is structured and set in place throughout the school year. The students’ desks and hard chairs are organized, with one being behind the other. The students face the teacher’s desk, which is customarily in the front of the room and well within the line 

of vision of all his/her students.

Nontraditional classroom design: the students’ desks are arranged in a U shape or semicircle, circles, or clusters, students are primarily looking at one another. Possibly, there’s a section of the room where a carpeted “comfy corner” has been provided. Flip-style seats, or beanbags, a rocking chair or two, and/or cushioned television-style seating are present.

According to these ways of classroom design, I consider that they haven’t changed too much, because many schools use the same type of arrangement which is traditional. Maybe because the rooms are too small, so teachers don’t have the opportunity to change the desks.

On the other hand I think that the teachers that use nontraditional design are those that work in big rooms although they just arrangement the desks in U, but students can work better. I think that the arrangement of desks is really important because students learn in different ways, so working in a good classroom can help them to learn easily. The environment of the class play an important tool, therefore students need to develop a lot of activities which sometimes apply the desks arrangement.

For instance, I’m teaching high school and the classroom is too small, so for me is a little difficult to develop activities because I need space and I don’t have it.  The desks are just in one position and I cannot move them, so it is a problem in teaching and learning,

So for me these haven’t changed too much, because as at the beginning said many school works in the same way and have traditional classrooms where the teachers are in front of them and students are one behind the other or just in semicircle, because of the space. We as teachers can create different ways of arrangement desks in order to students get involved in the activities thus they will learn in a good environment too. But on the other hand some schools have many equipment and wallpapers on the rooms and years ago the rooms weren’t in this way.

So I can say that just some things have changed, because now we use technology to teach and years ago we didn’t.

If we have nontraditional classroom the world of teaching would be wonderful because we had all the resources that students and teachers need to larn in a good environment and having this their knowledge would increase day after day.

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