Classroom Design for Student Agency
eBook - ePub

Classroom Design for Student Agency

Create Spaces to Empower Young Readers and Writers

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Classroom Design for Student Agency

Create Spaces to Empower Young Readers and Writers

About this book

Classrooms should be spaces where every child feels safe to bring their whole self to school. This book shows how to set up preK–grade 6 classrooms that support student agency, independence, and choice. The results of classrooms designed with these goals in mind include:

  • Greater student engagement with curriculum
  • Students who know themselves and are empowered as learners
  • Students who feel valued and care about their learning as well as the learning of others
  • A more cohesive, authentic, and accepting community of learners
  • Opportunities for choice and decision-making by all learners

With examples drawn from real classrooms, the authors demonstrate how to make choices in seating, materials used, books read, and more. Special attention is paid to the design of classroom libraries in which a variety of diverse, quality books anchor so much of the work in helping young readers and writers grow and learn.

The book is richly illustrated with photos and samples to provide an inside look at classrooms in which children are centered and the teacher is responsive to creating spaces with student agency in mind.

172 pp. 2023. Grades PreK–6

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Table of contents

  1. Foreword by Carla Shalaby
  2. Introduction to Classroom Design
  3. Part 1. Classroom Design
  4. Designing for Student Agency
  5. Various Spaces for Different Configurations for Learning
  6. Whole-Group Spaces
  7. Independent Learning Spaces
  8. Small-Group Spaces
  9. Spaces for Partners
  10. Creating Flexible Spaces and Flexible Seating
  11. The Message of Tables and Bookshelves on Wheels
  12. When Students Create the Spaces They Need
  13. Making the Best Use of Wall Space
  14. Accessible Tools for Learning
  15. The Role of Technology in Room Design
  16. Book Bins as a Tool for Student Agency
  17. Working with the Space You Have
  18. Working with the Furniture You Have
  19. What Is Good Here?
  20. Part 2. The Classroom Library
  21. The Importance of a Robust Classroom Library
  22. Curating a Diverse Classroom Library
  23. The Classroom Library as a Teaching Tool
  24. The Power of Baskets for Organizing Books
  25. The Concept of Reading Ladders and How Libraries Support Them
  26. Organizing by Author
  27. Organizing by Genre
  28. Organizing by Series
  29. Organizing by Format
  30. Organizing Graphic Novels
  31. Organizing New Books
  32. Organizing Nonfiction
  33. “If You Liked. . .” Baskets
  34. Displaying Books in the Classroom
  35. Connecting to the School and Public Libraries
  36. Organizing What You Have
  37. Auditing Our Classroom Library
  38. Weeding Your Book Collection Matters
  39. What Counts as Reading?
  40. Afterword by Detra Price-Dennis
  41. Index
  42. Authors