ShutterstockIf you step into a newly built school these days, chances are you will see classrooms that look very different to the classrooms most of us spent our school years in as children. On a ...

The trend of building open-plan and flexible classrooms in new Victorian schools is creating noisy, distracting learning spaces that impede effective teaching, the Grattan Institute has warned.

Open-plan, flexible classrooms should be avoided because they encourage “fad” teaching methods and students find it difficult to concentrate in the expansive spaces, a parliamentary inquiry ...

Open-plan classroom, out-the-front lecture, or mixed-ability classes, education is only limited by the endurance of the professional teacher. Many prefer to teach outside or on camps, when ...

Pasco County’s Fox Hollow Elementary School is building walls between its teachers and students. Literally. The campus, which ...

Shirley Boys High School is spending $800,000 to transform its open plan classrooms, built in 2019, into single-cell rooms.

Hokey pokey classrooms: Walls down, walls up, and shake them all about. A $112m renovation removed the walls at Picton High School to flip the school into an open learning space.

If you step into a newly built school these days, chances are you will see classrooms that look very different to the classrooms most of us spent our school years in as children. On a recent visit ...

The campus, which opened in 1991, was constructed without classroom walls as part of the “open schools” concept aimed at making it easier for teachers to collaborate and students to work with ...