SEVENTH BLOG ENTRY

CLASSROOMS DESIGNS

Traditional Classroom

The traditional classroom designs is the one in which students are sat in lines they don’t see each other. As it is stated on the book, students’ desks and hard chairs are organized, with one being behind the other. The students face the teacher’s desk, which is customarily in the front of the room and well within the line of vision of all his/her students.

The teachers usually teach in the old same way that they were taught when they were students. The teachers often stand in front of the class in order to see everybody as well they can see the teacher.

Also the book stated that students most often are the passive recipients of information. The classroom is teacher-centered and subsequently teacher-controlled.

Nontraditional Classroom

The students are sat in a U form or semicircle, and students are able to see each other not as the traditional classroom that they are sitting in lines. Also students can be arranged in groups.

Another important point stated on the book is that the teacher delivers lessons using varied and/or multiple styles of delivery in different parts of the room. These may include anecdotes, storytelling, small-group collaborative exercises, and hands-on activities involving the entire class, partnerships, some individualization, and/or learning centers where the teacher serves as lesson facilitator.

Nowadays these two types are found in many schools around the world but these two classroom styles are also change in the last twenty year, now teacher are mixed these two types in order to improve the lesson.