Improving School Designs for Improved Learning

The schools and classrooms are rarely renovated, not realizing the impact it can have in improving a students’ performance. Most of the people have a firm belief in only what matters in a classroom is what is been taught in it. However, designs of schools and classrooms have a major influence on learning of the students ensuring remarkable improvements in students’ scores.

Adil Baguirov — Board Member and Former President, Dayton Board Of Education

The commonly followed trend of keeping a clean environment for the students is not the only requirement. The mainstream design of converging all the focus on the just single entity of the teacher being placed in the front of the class can be replaced by shifting the focus on the learners instead. When the space provided for designing a classroom is utilized well in a way that students are not stuffed into each other, the students will keep their sense of individuality alive. And that they are being watched closely, as they are the center of focus.

Instead of bounding the students to the ringing of bells, teachers and owner of the schools should adopt the creative approach themselves first, before expecting it to be inculcated in the students. They should be allowed to move freely as per their will, then observe and guide them accordingly. Instead of taming them in one same way.

A student with an empty and gurgling stomach can never pay attention to the lecture. So, pupils should be provided with a café near their classrooms.

Adopting new ways of building confidence can help contribute to the society, it does not just stay within the boundaries of schools.For example, if students are encouraged to make things according to their talents, let’s say some artworks, and then get them on display before the whole school. Moreover, pay the students with the reward money. This can have an unimaginable positive impact on the students’ personalities and mindsets.

Students acquire the knowledge from their parents and family, then the teachers and the peers, and then from the environment around them. This implies that environment has a role in the pupils’ learning and growth. Hence, it is not just the teacher performance that needs to be improved and enhanced but also the design does matter. Thus, measures should be taken by the educational institutes to improve the environment provided to the students within the walls of the school building.