7th - What are two ways classroom design has changed over the past twenty years?

The classroom design is not just about the material we have there, but also the way in which we set them up.

We can notice that trough the years, the classroom design has changed a lot. However two main characteristics I can notice are:

- Desk arrangement

- The way the instruction is given

20 years before, the order of the desks were no that good, not that appropriate and not htat appealing. What do I mean by that, well I mean that before due to the arregmeant of desks you always saw tha back part of the head of your classmate. It was the traditional arreagment, one student’s desk after the other student’s desk. Except for the first student in a row, everyoneelse is looking at the back of another’s head. How do you suppose that might influence instruction? To where is the students’ attention drawn?

But nowadays, teachers look fo many different ways in which they can arrange the desks the best, and therefore make an create a better learning environment.

Moreover, instruction has changed a lot. Why? Because 20 years ago the teacher was the one who had all the power and control and participation of the class, students were just fill out with knowledge without being participants of it. In our times, students take an active role in the classes.

“An arrangement that is disagreeable to 

the student may erect a needless barrier, 

possibly one that will prevent learning.”

McCorskey and McVetta 1978