Planning Learning Spaces in practice overview
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The document outlines an approach to designing education spaces that focuses on understanding pedagogy and involving stakeholders early. It advocates for a structured framework that engages staff in reflecting on current practices and envisioning future needs to inform design. The goal is to ensure new spaces effectively support a school's vision and transition through systemic change. Key aspects of the approach include gathering context and data, analyzing the school's vision and practices, identifying areas to enhance, and testing designs against intended uses.
Planning Learning Spaces in practice overview
- 1. Our message is simple “you can’t successfully design education spaces unless you fully understand the learning and teaching practices they need to support” In our publication we set out an agenda that requires us to design for the future In setting out this agenda for change we recognised the importance of support schools in developing their own reflective process for planning and learning environments.
- 2. Our approach creates a structured framework for all stakeholders in the design process, ensuring: More time is spent engaging with all staff early in the design process. A greater focus on pedagogy and next practice in developing new spaces. Recognition of the importance of observable behaviours that support a shared vision around the values and philosophy of the current and intended next practice. Staff are seen as creators not consumers of the new relationships between pedagogy and space.
- 3. Schools are learning organisations and therefore change needs to be systemic in order to impact on all aspects of the life and work of a school and be sustainable. A structured framework that enables a process of reflection is critical for change and transition into new spaces for learning. More focused time engagement with all stakeholders early in the design process with a review of current approaches to learning and teaching and a clear definition on the intended next practice. The development of a design framework which creates a strategy for change that can act as an integrated route map to meet the individual transition needs for any school design project. The rationale for our approach
- 4. The Design Framework 2. Context and data gathering 5. Identify areas to enhance 7. Testing the organisational model against the space 1. The rationale for the PLS Design Framework and its approach to identify and support change 6. Translate learning behaviours and activities into design approaches 4. In-depth analysis of school’s vision, ethos and general day to day practice 3. Identify project focus, participants and timelines. 8. Project Implementation and review
- 5. Author of “Clever Classrooms” Scientific study on the impact of Learning Environments Tools have been designed to help all staff reflect on existing practice under the key headings of pedagogy, curriculum, organisation of learning, leadership, community engagement and evidence and research. “PLS in Practice represents common sense about the positive articulation of spaces and pedagogy. Delivering a methodology that makes this connection explicit, and ultimately driven by educational imperatives, is a really important potential contribution and I am looking forward to being involved in the rigorous assessment of outputs from this project.” An evidence based approach
- 6. The process focuses on the capture of the learning behaviours and activities and the translation of these into design principles. Tailored workshops and reference materials have been created to take staff through a deeper design experience and test out new approaches and the intended new ways of working. A strategy for change template has been designed to ensure all the necessary next steps are agreed, communicated and resourced. Workshops are supported both on line and through local facilitation. Framework development tools:
- 8. Contact Information For more information about the Planning Learning Spaces projects taking place, please contact us. Email: projects@planninglearningspaces.com
Editor's Notes
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