4 Research-Backed Ideas to Upgrade Your Classroom
As teachers prepare their classrooms for a new school year, these low-cost changes can make a big difference in students’ learning experience.
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Go to My Saved Content.A growing body of evidence shows that the design of a classroom can have a significant impact on the learning within. While some factors are out of teachers’ control, there are a handful of simple but effective ways teachers can make their classroom environments more conducive to learning. From trying more flexible seating to setting up zones for different functions or introducing potted plants and being more intentional about what’s on the walls, these inexpensive solutions help set up a classroom for success—before students even come back through the door.
To learn more about the research cited in the video, check out the resources below.
- Peter Barrett, Fay Davies, Yufan Zhang, and Lucinda Barrett’s (2015)
- Karrie E. Godwin, Audrey J. Jeroux, Peter Scupelli, and Anna V. Fisher’s (2022)
- Kiesa Kelly and Kesha Patrice’s (2019)
- Petra Lindemann-Matthies, Dorothee Benkowitz, and Felix Hellinger’s (2021)
- Nicole van den Bogerd, S. Coosje Dijkstra, Karin Tanja-Dijkstra, Michiel R. de Boer, Jacob C. Seidell, Sander L. Koole, Jolanda Maas’s (2020)
- Eleanor Fulbeck, Drew Atchison, Jessica Giffin, Dorothy Seidel, and Megan Eccleston’s (2020)
Find more evidence-based ideas in Youki Terada’s ϲʲƱ article “The Science of Classroom Design” and even more resources on the Classroom Design Essentials for Educators collection page.