Vision

=//**IDT688 Individual Project: My Dream Classroom**//=

The goal of this project is to create a classroom that will meet the needs of the teaching-learning process. This classroom is being designed with teaching-learning high school level English, writing skills, creative writing, and journalism. It could be used for other subjects areas like foreign language and social studies, but would not be good for a science class due to its lack of lab spaces with water and gas.

Because I spend up about one-third of my days in this room and my students spend about six(6) hours per week in the room, the physical space, the lighting, furnishings, and technology will all go together to create a pleasant teaching-learning environment.


 * warm, intimate
 * unique: not a cookie cutter room like all the other rooms in the building
 * technology equipped for each student having a computer as well as for serving as a virtual classroom.
 * provide space for collaborative small groups, group discussions, experiential learning, mentoring, tutuoring

Although it would be great to be working with the architect who is building a new building with the "smart" classroom in mind, the reality is that most teachers are working in classrooms that are little boxes inside big boxes. I have chosen to design my classroom using the perameters that I work with every day. Who knows, maybe I can actually incorporate some of the "ideals" into my classroom in the future.

> || || || > Link to a drawing of the existing room.
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 * Picture of the room facing the " front"
 * Picture of the room facing the "back"
 * Picture of the storage room.
 * Picture of the hall side of the room
 * Picture of the window side of the room.