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  • Working in Classrooms: Teaching, Time and Space. Learning Guide - Section Five - Making learning time and space for large classes

    Section Five builds on concepts developed throughout the module and on the idea that how teachers solve problems relating to space and time depends on what their teaching purpose is and on who the learners are. By the end of this section, you should be able to: * see how crowded space hinders teaching and learning; * use your judgement in developing an appropriate approach to arranging... more

  • Working in Classrooms: Teaching, Time and Space. Learning Guide - Section Four - Classroom time and space

    Section Four focuses on internal arrangements of time and space and how these affect teaching and learning. By the end of the section you should be able to use the following concepts to help you think about how to arrange classroom space and time for purposeful learning: • physical space and clock time; • external and internal time and space; • practical and symbolic reasons; • allocated and... more

  • Working in Classrooms: Teaching, Time and Space. Learning Guide - Section Three - School time and space: How school teaching is shaped by arrangements of external time and space

    Section Three focuses on external arrangements of time and space and how these affect teaching and learning. By the end of the section you should be able to use the following concepts to help you think about different ways of arranging time and space at schools and to understand how these arrangements both help and hinder teaching: • external time and space; • structuration; • order and chaos... more

  • Working in Classrooms: Teaching, Time and Space. Learning Guide - Section One

    Time and space are the medium of human existence. Everything we do happens somewhere and takes some time, perhaps a minute, perhaps an hour, perhaps years. All our projects and activities -large and small, serious and playful- are enabled and constrained by time and space. But this does not mean that we are somehow at the mercy of time and space. As human agents– that is as people able to... more

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