Is the concern that collaborative classrooms will be noisy and chaotic founded?
Photo by Caroline Martin
Parent's concern that Collaborative learning spaces are noisy and some students can get lost in them.
Below is a link to a Radio New Zealand report from December 2015 which investigates several New Zealand schools and their experiences with collaborative learning spaces.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/291045/backlash-against-open-plan-classrooms
Questions to consider:
What are teachers and principals from the schools featured in the article saying about these new collaborative spaces?
What were the benefits outlined in the article?
What challenges do we need to plan for in our Education brief ?
Feel free to email your comments/questions/concerns to educationbrief@oaklands.school.nz