Twelve school design principles based on brain-based learning research (from Lackney and Fielding, 1998)
Rich, stimulating environments – colour, texture, ‘teaching architecture’, displays created by students (not teacher) so students have connection and ownership of the product.
Places for group learning – breakout spaces, alcoves, table groupings to facilitate social learning and stimulate the social brain; turning breakout spaces into living rooms for conversation.
Linking indoor and outdoor places – movement, engaging the motor cortex linked to the cerebral cortex for oxygenation.
Corridors and public places containing symbols of the school community’s larger purpose to provide coherency and meaning that increases motivation (warning: ...
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