Transformational Education > New classrooms
Angela Crispi on the features of the Aldrich classrooms
Transcript
I really didn't think about the classroom itself. It probably didn't dawn on me for quite awhile. I think you're just so enamored with what's taking place in that classroom, just the experiences, and the locations that different students come from, the faculty being extraordinary at the teaching that they're doing. So you're just so caught up in that that you're kind of oblivious to the space.
And it's only after a period of time, when you've settled in, and you understand all of these other people, interactions that are taking place, that it starts to dawn on you that, you know, "My chair can't move. I wonder why that is. I wonder why there's only one clock, and it's in the back of the room, and nothing's in the front of the room. Interesting how the faculty member is using the set of stairs, or has a way to kind of mosey their way so that they're right in front of me."
So it only kind of comes a little bit later of, "Something's going on here in terms of the setup of this room."