CREATING MY DREAM STAFF TRAINING CLASSROOM

Kathryn dePrinseED603

Western New England University

Uh, Oh - so this is what I have to work with…

…

…and this too. Sigh.

AND MORE OF THIS, I’M AFRAID…

ROWS AND ROWS AND LINE AFTER LINE…

ALL OF THAT EQUALS THIS:

THIS REALLY STRESSES ME OUT

…like, uh, really

MAYBE IF I TRY REAL HARD…

So what to do?

LET’S DO THIS:

Since boardrooms & other meeting rooms double as training classrooms…

START WITH A LARGE GROUP DISCUSSION SPACE

Start with this

To create something like this

Room to see, stand or sit – a little bit of everything for kinesthetic and spacial people

Good for talking to your neighbour too (hello pair work!)

EVEN BETTER IF IT COMES APART

Interpersonal & linguistic,

with a bit of kinesthetic & spatial thrown in for good measure

NOW FOR SOME SOCIAL, COLLABORATIVE INTERACTION

SMALL GROUPS CAN ACCOMPLISH BIG THINGS

spatial

tactile

linguistic

visual

Logical/mathmatic

al

interpersonal

existential(?)