[Year 12 IPM] Learning Neighbourhoods

[Rattan, Kushum L]

Dear Robyn
Great minds think alike!! My school is thinking along the same lines. Revamping the classrooms to turn them into learning neighbourhoods of 175 to 200 students, teams of teachers, lots of tecnology and integrated curriculum. Reasons given are that if we continue do what we are doing now our outcomes will not improve and therefore we need to change. Some of our senior staff have visited schools in Adealeide that operate in this manner and were very impressed with student engagement etc. At least our year 7's and eights will go that path in the near future. I am hesitant to voluteer to teach in these cluters. Not sure how it will work. Interesting.
 
Kushum Rattan
Information Technology Co-ordinator
Gisborne Secondary College
rattan.kushum.l at edumail.vic.gov.au
Phone: 54283691
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Some teachers find these sorts of spaces liberating. It seems to me though that Principals and architects design these spaces and then walk away. I would like to see them teaching in these spaces. I would find it noisy and chaotic.

Ms Robyn Dunn
LT Co-Ordinator
Camberwell High School
email: du at camhigh.vic.edu.au
phone: 98360555
fax: 98360194


>>> Meadows, Roslyn M<Meadows.Roslyn.M at edumail.vic.gov.au> 12/09/2005 2:36:21 pm >>>
Our IT rooms, Science block and several GPC's are to be demolished next year. These areas are to be attached to our exisitng library, and the whole space reorganised. (It will all be much smaller than the areas we have now - even though our enrolments have increased)

Our principal is proposing to have an open plan area, where classrooms will be delineated only by a change of floor covering, or by furniture. I am just interested if anyone else has seen this open space learning system, how would it work with 175 kids and 7 staff in one large area? (4 Science classes and 3 classes in the IT spaces).  I have not been given any information about what the advantages of this system might be, but numerous disadvantages spring to mind.

I have attached a pic of one of the Options - all 4 options we have been given are based on this open learning space system, they just change in the way the spaces are arranged. The light dashed lines do not indicate walls, but perhaps just different coloured carpet to "delineate" the areas. The bolder dashed lines indicate glass walls. The IT "spaces" are about 7m X 9m.

Any  positive or negative feedback about how this system would work, or how it has worked in other schools would be much appreciated.

Ros Meadows
Bentleigh SC
9579 1044
meadows.roslyn.m at edumail.vic.gov.au

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