School Furniture: Changing Education, Starting with Classroom Desks and Chairs
When it comes to learning, many teachers are concerned about teaching methods, parental support, and differentiated teaching, often neglecting the core venue of the teaching process - the classroom desks and chairs. Because the way desks and chairs are arranged in the classroom can affect students' learning. It's not just about placing desks and chairs in the classroom, but about purposefully rearranging the entire classroom space to achieve the desired effect.
In fact, this flexible arrangement of desks and chairs in classrooms, with more student-centered classroom designs, has achieved many successful cases around the world. More and more schools and teachers are striving to break away from traditional classroom layouts and find new ways to make their classrooms more conducive to learning in the 21st century.
An example of optimizing classroom layout is the active learning classroom, which uses two different layouts based on the activities carried out on the day. This type of layout relies on easily rearranged furniture to achieve a flexible classroom. The first classroom configuration includes students sitting on tables in small groups of four. The second configuration changed the layout to rearrange the chairs to face the blackboard or projector. The furniture used in these classrooms moves on portable rolling chairs attached to personal desks.
There are many positive benefits to using this flexible classroom. The first benefit is that it creates many open spaces where students and instructors can move around and interact with others. Freedom of action promotes intellectual and social interaction. In addition, although students usually work in their own groups, if they encounter problems, they can easily learn with the second group, which also promotes the formation of a learning community. Peer guidance enhances students' sense of pride and makes them believe that they are co creators of knowledge.
Students can not only become recipients of teacher knowledge, but also actively collaborate with others in building knowledge. Therefore, students have a higher level of participation than other forms of class. Students can easily reconfigure their learning space, which means they can quickly join others and provide or receive assistance as needed.
Active learning classrooms are also very helpful for teachers as they can become tools to help them understand the learning situation of different groups. This allows all members to collaborate. Each student can complete their own part on the whiteboard and then impart wisdom to another person. This helps students better collaborate and discuss how to come up with different answers. Then, the teacher can check the blackboard of each group to see if they have come up with the correct answer and provide feedback on any areas where they may have made mistakes.
Fujian Jiansheng Furniture Group, as a socially responsible university, is committed to comprehensively studying and considering the influencing factors of the campus environment, and using the provision of school furniture products as the output method to create a healthy and growing campus space for every teenager.