If you step into a newly built school these days, chances are they look very different to your childhood classroom.
Instead of a standard classroom with four walls, you’re likely find a large room that contains two or three classes, with no wall to separate them, and ample room for teachers and students to move between the ‘classroom’ spaces.
Listen to host Kat Clay in conversation with Senior Associate Anika Stobart, and Education Researcher Brigitte Garbin, about how open-plan classrooms might be harming our children’s learning.
Read the article discussed in the podcast.
Kat Clay
Anika Stobart
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