Teacher Meeting 11.15.12 Preparing the Environment. Growing your future. Chiaravalle Montessori School
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Teacher Meeting11.15.12
Preparing the Environment. Growing your future.
Chiaravalle Montessori School
DISCOVER. ACTIVATE. DESIGN.
DISCOVER ACTIVATE STRATEGIZE LAUNCH
PROTOTYPEEMERGE DEVELOP REFINEINQUIRE
OUR PROCESS
OUR CALENDAR
Tuesday, October 2Early & Lower elementary shadow, hangout, interviews
Friday, October 12Middle school shadow, hangout, interviews
Friday, October 12Process presentation & parent coffee hour
Wednesday, October 3Upper elementary shadow, hangout, interviews
Tuesday, November 15Educator and Staff working meeting
Thursday, October 25Student design workshop
Monday, October 8Technical survey of building
December/January 2013Scenarios & refinement
Thursday, November 29Community Workshop
OCTOBER NOVEMBER DEC/JAN
CHIARAVALLE MONTESSORI SCHOOL
Tuesday, October 9Town Hall, Board meeting
• Present what we’ve learned from Discovery so far
• See you apply emerging themes
• Hear your reactions (survey if leave early)
• Use your design challenge concepts to begin to
define the space program
GOALS FOR TODAY
Education is a natural process carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words, but by experiences in the environment.
MARIA MONTESSORI
OBSERVATION & SHADOWING
UNCOVERING PATTERNS & OPPORTUNITIES
it was raining!
INTERVIEWS & COFFEE HOURS
DISCOVERY THROUGH DISCUSSION
STUDENT DESIGN LABHONORING STUDENT VOICES
STUDENT DESIGN LABHONORING STUDENT VOICES
SURVEYREFINING THEMES AND GATHERING INSIGHT
EmpowerMONTESSORI PRINCIPLES
AchieveDESIGN GOALS
ReimaginePROGRAM
AREAS
MONTESSORI PRINCIPLES
Prepared Environment
Follow the Child
Independent Children
Process-based
Grace and Courtesy
Conceptual and Physical
1. Ease transitions for students
2. Support independence in students
3. Welcome families
4. Celebrate the Chiaravalle community
EMERGING DESIGN GOALS
Target experiences:
Continue to ‘follow the child’ and create a prepared environment throughout the school as well as in the classroom
AchieveDESIGN GOALS
Ease transitionsAs students venture outside of their classrooms
“[Specials] is one of my hardest parts of the day. It doesn’t feel
Montessori at all. It’s very directed and orderly and puts us
all in a different place, which of course affects the children.”
IMAGE
• Learning in transition spaces• Waiting• Supports to guide students• Prepping the room• Pick up/drop off
AchieveDESIGN GOALS
Support independence in studentsAs they take on self-directed learning
IAGE
Target experiences:
Provide tools for independent exploration. Create flexibility for different types of use. Honor learning spaces as the students’ domain.
“Children are so persistent if we leave them alone – they’re little
scientists”
• Outfit space to the scale of a child• Design for independent navigation
of tools• Consider boundaries between
parent space and learning space
Sharing work.
AchieveDESIGN GOALS
Welcome and extend an invitation to current and prospective families
Target experiences:
How can the family-centered culture expand to support parents as they learn about Montessori and consider the progression through Chiaravalle?
“As much as this is a learning exploration for the child, it also is
for the parent”
• Capitalize on moments with families during pick up/drop off
• Design places for parent gathering• Create opportunities for parents to
engage in their child’s learning outside the classroom
AchieveDESIGN GOALS
Celebrate Chiaravalle communityAcross classrooms and age levels
IMAGE
Target experiences:
Create a unified identity that champions compassionate peer learning and the Montessori philosophy.
“Give them opportunity to enter into their own development, but
also the development of their community”
• Design for beneficial exchange between age groups
• Honor each level and celebrate the progression as a child gets older
• Create tangible identity by showcasing what defines Chiaravalle Montessori School
PROGRAM AREAS
Gym
Performance Area
Learning Resource Rooms
Kitchen and Café
Meeting Space
Entry
Outdoor Area
instead of using nouns to design…
PROGRAM AREAS
Movement and Play
Peer Exchange
One-on-one Instruction
Eating
Greeting
Hosting
Celebrating
…we use verbs
your turn!
DESIGN CHALLENGE
Use verbs to describe an ideal Chiaravalle that excellently lives up to your assigned design goal.
1. Read over your assigned design goal2. Choose/generate verbs that support your goal3. Arrange the verbs in a bubble diagram to imagine how the school
can better live up to your goal4. Present!
ACTIVATE
Design Thinking
DESIGN CHALLENGE
Consider:
• How is the design goal applied?• Who is participating? (students, teachers, staff, families)• What happens where? Name clusters of verbs.• What technology could be incorporated to help facilitate the goal?
ACTIVATE
Discussion.
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