1. Designing Classrooms to Maximize Student Achievement
Rethinking the classroom environment
Kirsten Hoeflaken,

2. What are we going to cover?
The importance of first impression
Goals for your classroom
Considerations for designing your classroom
How to start and guidelines
Video experience
Rethinking the walls
Closure

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10. First Impression

11. Goals: To increase the time spent on task by our students.
Make efficient use of limited space.
Provide structure, access and orderliness.

12. When designing your classroom consider:
Age of the students
Number of students
Size and shape of the room and placement of non-moveable items
The activities to be conducted
Available furniture
Placement of electrical outlets, windows and doors
“Decorations”
Are environmental modifications necessary for disabled students?

13. Where to start?

15. 4 Guidelines: Separate “high traffic” areas. Areas such as…?
Teacher’s desk
Computer station
Group work areas
Pencil sharpeners/trash cans etc.
Water fountains
Pick up & drop off locations for books and papers

16. 2. Before students arrive, stand in different parts of the room to be sure that you will be able to see all of your students.
What sorts of things might interfere with your visual monitoring?
How do you position yourself while helping students?

17. 3. Be sure that all of your students can see you as you instruct.
Do so by sitting in their seats (and slouching down to their height)

18. 4. Keep frequently used materials easily accessible

19. Through your child's eyes
Go to: Through your child's eyes

20. Rethinking the walls

21. (Interactive) board

22. Displaying art work

23. Bulletin boards

24. Focus

26. “They don’t care how much you know , until they know how much you care”
(T.Roosevelt)
Kirsten Hoeflaken, NC State University,