Nowadays, many students have behavioral difficulties: lack of concentration, limited autonomy, incessant chatter, etc. What if part of the solution lay in the ergonomics and layout of a classroom?

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After studying 3,766 students and 153 classrooms in 27 primary schools across the United Kingdom, researchers from the University of Salford have found that simple changes to classroom design can have ...

One of the most important decisions that teachers make at the start of the school year—and continue to consider throughout the year—is the classroom layout and seating arrangements. Where each student ...

In college classroom design, flexibility has become a top priority. In fact, “classrooms” might be too limited a term to describe what have become learning spaces of all shapes and sizes (including ...

As the school year begins, most classrooms across the country will mirror traditional class design: rows of desks with passive children sitting quietly listening to a teacher in the front of the class ...

Like a jazz dance performance, active learning combines doing, movement and impromptu variety in a way that gets students and faculty up and out of their usual positions in the classroom. The room and ...

Young undergraduates walk into a computer science lab at Stanford University and are handed a career survey about their interest in the field. What researchers learned when they asked students to do ...

A new study shows how color, lighting, and other classroom design choices can have a huge impact on student progress. As debate over education reform sizzles, and as teachers valiantly continue trying ...

I recently taught an intensive summer course on personality psychology. The class was held every day for a couple of hours during July. Although this was not my first teaching assignment, it was my ...

Where we learn matters. This truth has exploded as we have waded through the realities of emergency remote learning. As a profession, we have honorably pivoted to meet the needs of students, but all ...