Inspiring examples

 For some years now and within the Ka1 and Ka2 fantastic european projects in my school, I have had the opportunity to visit quite many schools and get inspired by the way they use the space for the benefit of learning. 

I share with you some pics from a school in the north of Belgium. It is a huge concrete building, grey and ugly from the outside and wonderfully warm and learning focused on the inside. I got many ideas from this school, some already implemented in mine..

Please COMMENT. Do you think those ideas could be implemented in your school/high school, etc? Why or why not? If not,, would this inspire you to do something different? Let's use our imagination and share with each other. THANKS

PICS:

1º.- The relaxing igloo. It is a brick-made intimate space placed in the middle of the huge hall, mainly thought for the children with autistic disorder (but useful for all). If the child needs some time of quietness, he/she shows "the card" to the teacher and can go to the igloo to be on his/her own, protected. Inside the igloo there are cushions and there is also a light to show to the others outside that the igloo is occupied. 

2º.- The idea of using the common spaces as learning spaces. The halls in this school are also classrooms.

3º.- The idea of making material to share. In the pic, there are boxes with activities prepared by the parents. You have inside the sheet with the instruction and the materials to do it. We have used it to organize quick experiments, but it could also be arts and crafts, manipulative Maths....This way, if a teacher needs activities to do work in groups, everything is already organized....

Gema López

More ideas

 Hello,

Here I share a video with different ideas to decorate and organise spaces in the classroom.

Hope you like it.

I'm sure you know many other videos or inspiring ideas about learning spaces, let's share them through this forum thread and get inspired each other.

Laura Riesco

An ideal situation

 I share with you a very interesting TED talk from a very interesting danish architect who works designing schools.

To open up the discussion, I would like you to watch the talk and tell me how you think we could -with our limitations- approach to this ideal. What do you think the problem could be and how do you think we can find a solution (in general, not in COVID times).

Gema López

Real experiences on space transformation

 Today I'd like to share with you two examples of space transformation in schools libraries.

Both are examples of Castilla y León.

CEIP. Diego Laínez

https://plcinnova2021.blogspot.com/2021/03/ceip-diego-lainez-proyecto-para-la.html

CEIP. Arturo Duperier

https://auladelfuturo.intef.es/experiencias/transformacion-de-los-espacios-la-biblioteca-del-ceip-arturo-duperier-avila/

Learning about Future Classroom Lab

 

As you have seen in Unit 1, Future Classroom Lab is an innovative iniciative to raise awareness in the importance of spaces and skills development.

If you want to know a bit more of this iniciative in Spain, don't miss the following video with some experiences and participation of some of its ambassadors.

Hope you like it.

Laura Riesco