Education Today

The days are long gone when teachers collected papers in a black tray by the door, and then passed them out one week later with a grade written in red ink on top of the page to the learners sitting still and quiet in isolated desks in a row. The educator of the past had one large desk for themselves, perched in the front of the room where they hoped students would focus on their lesson, instead of daydreaming out the window.

Those classrooms are now replaced by high intensity, movement, and energy. Daydreaming out the window isn’t a possibility when all the questioning, feedback, and action is going on inside. Today’s students are not focused on memorizing facts that are outdated even before they are forgotten. Instead, our learning environments have become updated to foster teamwork and communication. Tables that can allow groups to work together, either seated or standing, are a must. We also seek comfortable chairs that move easily on floors that reduce noise and are virtually maintenance free. We need storage to keep technology items safe and minimize visual clutter, and we demand organization solutions that offer possibilities our old school teachers would never have dreamed of.

The employers who will one day hire the students are seeking problem solvers who will work cooperatively. They know that educators need the flexibility to move around in the learning space and give immediate specific feedback. As the “I do, We do, You do” model becomes more prevalent, our workspaces change more fluidly than ever before. In these classrooms the students can’t practice the exact problems yet, because they haven’t even been invented.

But the tools they need to solve them have. Contact us to find out more on designing educational spaces that maximize the learning potential all students have within them.