Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Caves, Campfires & Watering Holes

There's lots being shared about flexible learning spaces and their links to caves, campfires & watering holes.  Our school is just over 3 years old and when it was being developed our Principal and Board took on ideas about these different spaces and utilised concepts of educational architect Prakash Nair to ensure these different spaces are available for our learners.

When we set up our classes each year we do this with our students - the spaces belong to the whole class - not just the teacher.  We talk about the different learning spaces we need and what we need to use the spaces in our pods for e.g. mathematics & literacy.  In small groups the students in the class I teach this year put together their ideas on what these spaces look like to show their understanding of how we use the spaces.  Each Summit group moved around the different sheets of paper and added their ideas.  Love that they saw what other groups had done and added their own person to the different spaces.