A study on the efficiency of room planning for elementary school common classroom

• Main Authors: Pi-chiao Chang, 張碧嬌
• Other Authors: Fang-jye Shiue
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49503347772787049044

碩士 === 南華大學 === 環境與藝術研究所 === 94 === 　　As the society is improving, the educational system needs corresponding reforms, too. Various teaching and learning styles begin to emergy in the classroom. The types of rooms for learning have to accommodate themselves to the change of new curricula and concepts. However, most school buildings have a long period of use, and the classrooms can''t make necessary changes soon enough to face the challenges and meet the requirements of the multiple curricula, educated policies and ideologes. As a result, teachers can only count on their imagination and creation to adjust and rearrange their classrooms. It is questionable whether teachers are able to have quality classroom planning to create a good learning environment under limited planning ability? How do the users feel about the planning? These important issues need to be further explored immediately. 　 　　This study aims to understand the current situation of the room planning for the third grade common classroom, and to investigate the needs for the common classrooms and the efficiency and the contextual perceptions of the use of the classroom. The study employs literature review, survey, observation and in-depth interview. The subjects of the study include 99 students and three theachers from three classes of the third grade at the Lan Tan elementary school in Chia-yi. A class is selected from the three classes to be the experimental group of the study to evaluate and verify the practicality of room planning. The findings of the study are summarized as follows: 一、To be in line with current educational ideology of elementary school, common classroom must be self-suffivient. A classroom should be equipped with four separate spaces which include a teaching corner, a learning corner, a theacher''s working corner and a life-education corner. The ideal seat arrangement for the third grade''s learning corner should be double seat and team. The learning corner should include a video corner, an information corner, a reading corner, a playing corner and a display corner. 二、The study indicates that there is partial discrepancy between student needs and teacher''s imagination. When the teacher makes the plan of the classroom space, they should listen to the opinions, the needs and the feelings of the students. We believe a good mutual communication helps to create a classroom space that suits the needs of the students, and to improve the quality of the learning environment. 三、When making room planning in a limited classroom space, teachers should integrated individual spaces strengthen their functions, and take multiple purposes and moving directions into consideration. 四、The study shows that the planning varies often and there is discrepancy in the use of space among classroom users. Hence, after making the classroom planning, we need to evaluate the efficiency to make timely adjustment and modification. 五、The educational administration should offer related classes for the teacher to improve their ability of the classroom planning .