Photo courtesy of Emerald Elementary Boulder Valley
Date: October 28, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Credits: 1.5 HSW
Using the built learning environment as the template for change, this webinar will cover the full range of architectural, educational and operational challenges that must be faced and overcome when schools are fully back in session post-COVID. Primarily, their challenge will be to move from a teacher-centered to a student-centered model of education. This webinar will address the following topics: 1) How COVID-19 will demand a new educational model that is both timely and essential; 2) Why traditional school design will fail our kids even more in the years ahead if we do not act now; 3) “Reading” school buildings – a visual literacy primer for the future; 3) Designing safe environments that encourage collaboration; 4) Integrated learning areas that break away from the traditional zoned model and; 5) Putting theory into practice.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1.Webinar participants will learn about the imperatives for change that will come in a post-COVID world and how best to leverage those opportunities to improve school design and, by extension, education itself.
2.Participants will be introduced to and learn how to use tools and techniques to measure the effectiveness of learning spaces and use this expertise to provide cost-effective solutions.
3.The webinar will help participants acquire and develop good interior design skills optimized to yield the best learning outcomes – skills that can be applied in the field while planning and designing K-12 learning environments.
4.Those who attend this webinar will be able to design learning spaces that facilitate the delivery of more holistic, interdisciplinary courses while encouraging both students and teachers to develop socially and emotionally via cooperation and collaboration.
