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Visibility of and interactions with students

12 February, 2015 - 11:00
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Learning is facilitated if the furniture and space allow you to see all students and to interact with them from a comfortable distance. Usually this means that the main, central part of the room”where desks and tables are usually locatedfineeds to be as open and as spacious as possible. While this idea may seem obvious, enacting it can be challenging in practice if the room itself is small or shaped unusually. In classrooms with young students (kindergarten), furthermore, open spaces tend to allow, if not invite, physical movement of children”a feature that you may consider either constructive or annoying, depending on your educational goals and the actual level of activity that occurs.