1. Changing school physical environmet for improving communication within the school
Principal of LEPL Village Satrichala #2 Public school, Gardabani Municipality
2017

2. Pupil-centered school environment
Goal:
To share measures taken at school for creating pupil-centered instructional environment

3. Implemented measures Results/outcomes
Situation in academic year
Implemented measures
Results/outcomes
Inactive, locked-up in a little room library
Allocating a new wider room for the library and arranging reading places in them
Increased number of readers, variety of events
Non-existence of labs- dull lessons, low motivation among pupils
Making a lab
Lab work conducted with available at school chemicals, increased number of interesting lessons
Only principal’s and computer rooms provided with the Internet
Providing the whole school with the Internet
Teachers use internet-resources, the school participates in the project of testing an electronic journal
Lackluster, boring classroom environment – desks arranged in a traditional way, empty walls
Pupils were given freedom to arrange classroom environment
Non-standard arrangement of desks, rooms for relaxation. Walls decorated by pupils with pictures, drawings, etc.
Frequent conflicts during breaks, pupils’ outflow from school
Music time during breaks, coffee breaks
In the school corridor there is made a musical corner, in the classrooms there are coffee and tea corners; conflicts are driven to the minimum

4. Efficient spaces for socializing created with minimum effort “Free speech wall”

5. Creating open working space for pupils by placing chairs and tables in a school corridor

6. Music weeks of diverse genres arranged in school corridors

7. Pupils started coming into my room without any formalities, the same about teachers’ room and they openly and without hesitation talk about any problem. It causes indignation in some teachers, who say that such practice was even unimaginable in their youth, that it must not be happening….
“These are teachers’ stairs, go back and use pupils’ stairs!!!”

8. Renewed library

9. Outcomes of implemented activities
Enhanced mutual respect
Altered, direct and caring relationships between pupils and teachers
More initiatives from pupils

10. Thanks for your attention!