Techniques that can be used in environmental design education for description, interpretation, and evaluation of various school settings are described. How art students can use these techniques to evaluate the building design of schools and other settings they use is specifically discussed. (RM)

Offers suggestions for making good use of a single microcomputer in classes with large numbers of students. Strategies described include in-class demonstrations, laboratory station activities, group activities, enrichment activities, and data collection techniques. Diagrams of room arrangements to accomplish the strategies are included. (BC)

Flexible classroom arrangements can help teachers teach to every child's learning style. Research findings have shown that many traditional notions about how students learn are incorrect. Suggestions for improving classroom practices and resources to help teachers in this process are offered. (DF)

This checklist is intended for beginning teachers, transfer teachers, school administrators, mentors, teacher educators, and student teachers. Seven sections focus on "Getting Acquainted" (instructional resources; community facilities and resources; the school district; school rules, procedures, and policies; school personnel, services,…

A two-issue volume presents articles describing innovative schools, classrooms, and alternative learning arrangements found in some of today's schools. Issue one contains three articles offering glimpses of an elementary school committed to the Core Knowledge curriculum of E. D. Hirsch, a renovated school devoted to early childhood learning…

This document offers school design guidance for accommodating the needs for teaching modern foreign languages (MFLs) in secondary education. Section 1 outlines the range of spaces in a typical MFL suite and describes how to calculate the number of timetabled spaces required. It includes guidance on planning the suite and what to consider if there…

This manual identifies the essential design elements of modern, high quality learning environments and includes discussions on facility programming, management, utilization, evaluation, and planning for future technology. Classrooms examined include general purpose classrooms, lecture halls, seminar rooms, and specialized classrooms such as…

This collection of worksheets includes typical space profiles for North Carolina's preK-12 schools, offering: number of students, core capacity, special education, media center, food service, physical education, academic and arts education classrooms, resource rooms, other teaching stations, administration, auditorium/theater, service/marketing…

This book explains how to develop a research workshop, demonstrating how children's interests and questions can become the central focus of the curriculum and offering dozens of techniques for organizing the classroom and the school day to support student research. The book also provides guidelines for finding a wide range of resources, fostering…

In a study of 75 Southern California classrooms, it was found that both the demographic context and internal organization of the school had strong influences on the perceived classroom leadership styles of the teachers in it. (Author)

Conclusion drawn from this analysis is that it is necessary to pay more attention to cultural background and social environment of schools, not simply the open classroom. (MB)

The open classroom movement is in serious danger of being misunderstood because so few people know what it is really all about. (Editor)

The designer of New York's Open Door Project, Lillian Weber, answers some of the fundamental questions that educators are asking about the open education movement in elementary education. (JF)