The idea of several classes and their teachers all being in a single room, with the noise and disruptions that would ensue sounds like a place of suffering rather than learning.
Thankfully the government is ending that educational experiment:
The Government has put an end to building open-plan classrooms, ensuring all new classrooms are designed in a flexible way to ensure better student outcomes.
“Overwhelming feedback I’ve received from schools across New Zealand is open-plan classrooms aren’t meeting the needs of students. While open-plan designs were originally intended to foster collaboration, they have often created challenges for schools, particularly around noise and managing student behaviour,” Education Minister Erica Stanford says.
“This Government is focused on raising achievement and closing the equity gap and an important part of our reform package is ensuring learning spaces are designed to improve student outcomes.
“In many cases, open-plan classrooms reduce flexibility, rather than enhance it. We have listened to the sector and new classrooms will no longer be open plan.” . .
There will be times when there is a need to, or benefit from, having more than one class in the same room. That’s what halls are for.
Most of the time one class in one room is challenge enough for pupils and teachers. Both learning and teaching will be easier, and quieter, with the end to single-class classrooms.
Ele Ludemann is a North Otago farmer and journalist, who blogs HERE - where this article was sourced.
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