BRIDGE'S School Profile Guide
BRIDGE’s Guides to Social Investment Interventions aim to support the work and spend of social investors who promote educational improvement. The purpose of the *School Profile Guide* is to help you establish a *preliminary *overview of the level of functionality of a school which is the target of a funded intervention in order to assist with project planning. It has been developed as a... more
Working in Classrooms: Teaching, Time and Space. Learning Guide - Section Five - Making learning time and space for large classes
Section Five builds on concepts developed throughout the module and on the idea that how teachers solve problems relating to space and time depends on what their teaching purpose is and on who the learners are. By the end of this section, you should be able to: * see how crowded space hinders teaching and learning; * use your judgement in developing an appropriate approach to arranging... more
Working in Classrooms: Teaching, Time and Space. Learning Guide - Section Four - Classroom time and space
Section Four focuses on internal arrangements of time and space and how these affect teaching and learning. By the end of the section you should be able to use the following concepts to help you think about how to arrange classroom space and time for purposeful learning: • physical space and clock time; • external and internal time and space; • practical and symbolic reasons; • allocated and... more
Working in Classrooms: Teaching, Time and Space. Learning Guide - Section Three - School time and space: How school teaching is shaped by arrangements of external time and space
Section Three focuses on external arrangements of time and space and how these affect teaching and learning. By the end of the section you should be able to use the following concepts to help you think about different ways of arranging time and space at schools and to understand how these arrangements both help and hinder teaching: • external time and space; • structuration; • order and chaos... more
Working in Classrooms: Teaching, Time and Space. Learning Guide - Section Two
Time and space in teaching: Teaching as a practice that shapes, and is shaped by, time and space. By the end of the section you should be able to use concepts to help you think about school teaching and how it is related to arrangements of time and space. Section Two builds a conceptual foundation for the module as a whole. By the end of the section you should be able to use the... more
Working in Classrooms: Teaching, Time and Space. Learning Guide - Section One
Time and space are the medium of human existence. Everything we do happens somewhere and takes some time, perhaps a minute, perhaps an hour, perhaps years. All our projects and activities -large and small, serious and playful- are enabled and constrained by time and space. But this does not mean that we are somehow at the mercy of time and space. As human agents– that is as people able to... more
Working in Classrooms: Teaching, Time and Space. Learning Guide - Introduction
Working in Classrooms looks at how arrangements of time and space shape school teaching; and at how teachers, principals and government departments of education shape the time and space for learning in schools. more
Working in Classrooms. Reading 7 - The open classroom
In this set of extracts from The Open Classroom, Herbert Kohl compares the spatial arrangements of three different classrooms. The classrooms he describes are hypothetical, but the descriptions are based on actual classrooms and are all fairly typical for North America. In this set of extracts from The Open Classroom, Herbert Kohl compares the spatial arrangements of three different... more
Working in Classrooms. Reading 5 - The children and their learning needs: Balancing individual and whole class teaching
An important part of a teacher’s work is to establish a classroom climate that encourages and enables learning. In the first set of extracts below, Janet Moyles suggests ways in which primary teachers can establish a positive classroom climate, especially at the beginning of the school year with a new class. more
Working in Classrooms. Reading 2 - Timetables
This optional reading on the sociology of school timetables includes a small research activity. more