1. Elements of Classroom Design
February 29, 2016
Classroom Design
Chelsi Dyer
2nd Grade

2. Security & Shelter Stuffed Animals (Soft Spots) Pillows (Soft Spots)
Involves the physical conditions that affect the senses
This can come in a physical form or a psychological form
Physical: refers to the protection of all stakeholders from violence, theft, and exposure to weapons and threats in order to establish a secure learning environment
Psychological: a feeling of acceptance and respect
Stuffed Animals
(Soft Spots)
Pillows (Soft Spots)
Rocking Chair (Soft Spots)
Rules
Fire drill procedures & Chesterfield Safety & Emergency Guidelines

3. Social Contact
Enables interaction between students and teachers & students Arrangement of classroom Arrangement of desks
Desks arranged in clusters
Rug to have class meetings

4. Symbolic Identification
Students identify with the classroom through personal identification Personalize the classroom; show the students’/teachers’ accomplishments Personal background, interests, and activities
Graph of students’ favorite seasons
List of words that the students love
Students’ artwork

5. Task Instrumentality Teacher’s desk strategically placed
Helps to carry out tasks and activities for working individually, in pairs, or groups Materials are easily accessible Students have a personal space for belongings Clear pathways Teacher’s desk in placed to support task and interaction patterns
Teacher’s desk strategically placed
Everything has a place
Children have cubbies
Instructions for carrying out the literacy block
Clear pathways

6. Pleasure Colorful Soft Spots
“Attractive” classroom Variety of colors: warm & cool Variety of textures: smooth & rough Variety of surfaces: hard & soft Variety of spaces: open & private/formal & informal
Colorful Soft Spots

7. Growth
Positive change in size, and/or maturation, over a period of time
Stations
Daily instructions (getting increasingly more difficult each day) for the literacy block

8. Work Cited
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