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Category: Teachers’ Perspectives

Interviews and posts that explore teachers’ perspectives on school buildings, education and design

Precious spaces in schools, how can we make them work for everyone?

The aim of this post is to consider the value of small rooms in schools with the intention of starting … More

Designing therapeutic spaces in schools 5: the corridor and the cupboard, a case study

After several years of working with children in a busy primary school corridor, two teaching assistants trained in emotional literacy … More

comfort, confidentiality, privacy, safety, therapeutic spaces

In the Hills, on the Trail of a Radical Priest and Critical Pedagogy

Moving north from Florence you climb up and up, past Fiesole to a ridge formed by Mounts Calavana and Giovi … More

Barbiana, Barbiana School, Don Lorenzo Milani, Letter to a Teacher
Flexibility and Time

Flexibility, Time and Learning Spaces

If teachers don’t have time to make flexibility happen, a learning environment isn’t flexible. This post proposes a breakdown into 4 types of flexibility based on the temporal (& other) resources users need.

flexibility, flexible learning environments, teaching and time

Schools should feel more like home: an interview with Lina Iordanaki

Lina Iordanaki is from Piraeus in Greece. Her first degree was in Primary Education and her master’s degree in Literature … More

Interview with Irene Lindsay

Irene Lindsay is the Assistant Head of a 2-form entry primary school in Raynes Park, London, which was refurbished by … More

acoustics, architects, classrooms, primary school, reading, reading corners

Problem-solving and school design: an interview with Tim Byrne.

Tim Byrne is a writer and illustrator of books for children and young adults and a digital technology expert, currently … More

architecture workshop, Bishop Grosseteste, children's voices, gifted and talented, ICT, interactive whiteboards, learning environments, open-plan

I started school twice: an interview with Bridget Murray, teacher

Bridget Murray attended primary schools in the late 1970s in Middlesborough, Hertfordshire and Basingstoke, Hampshire (UK) where she also went … More

environment, Institute of Education, school design, special school

Interview with Sue Steggles, teacher.

Sue Steggles was a pupil at John Scurr primary school, Bethnal Green in the East End of London in the … More

architecture, London primary schools, reading corner, Reading Recovery teacher, school design, school playground

Interview preview: with special school deputy head Pamela Murphy

Pamela Murphy read Geography at the University of Cambridge before working as a University administrator and then training as a … More

architects, BSF, classroom design, learning difficulties, space, special school design, wheelchair users

Wiping the slate clean: one way to declutter a primary school

When I asked Catherine Burke what she would wish for if she could change just one thing in all schools, … More

classroom storage, primary school design, storage

Interview with Judith Baines

Judith Baines was born in 1933 and is a former primary school teacher and Deputy Head.  She pioneered progressive teaching … More

Interview with Ruth Benn and Rebecca Skelton, teachers at Sparrow Farm Infants & Nursery school, Feltham.

Ruth Benn and Rebecca Skelton teach at Sparrow Farm Infants & Nursery school in Feltham, close to Heathrow Airport. Rebecca … More

adobe huts, architecture, book corners, classroom design, education, Feltham, primary school design, Sparrow Farm Infants and Nursery School, teacher training

Interview with Georgie Hughes, Reading Recovery Teacher Leader, Tower Hamlets

Georgina (Georgie) Hughes is the Reading Recovery teacher leader for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and also trains teachers … More

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