Planning Rationale
Personalized learning is a student-driven instructional model that fosters skills by empowering every student to actively co-design their learning path, pace, and environment according to their individual strengths, needs, and interests. Through tailored and authentic learning experiences that embed social-emotional learning, students develop and assert control, autonomy, and agency over their learning. Special attention and coordination during design phases and collaboration with the school is a critical element in proper planning for Personalized Learning. Classrooms must be flexible to accommodate multiple modes of instruction: Individual, group, and teacher led. Different types of furniture and seating types is what will separate a Personalized Learning Classroom apart from a typical classroom.
Location
Classrooms should be located next to the same grade level standard classroom.
Classroom Layout
Requirements are similar to a standard classroom for the envelope and the teaching station, however classroom furniture selection is used to customize and convert rooms to support Personalized Learning curricula. (See section 4.1.1 Grades 9-12 Classrooms)
- Space must allow for real-time reconfiguration of furniture as instruction shifts from whole class to small group, by subject, or individual learning styles.
- The furniture configurations shown on plans are intended to be flexible and designed to move depending on curriculum and should be coordinated with the school and CPS Capital Planning.
- Furniture based mobile marker boards and/or tack boards shall be used for team environment and for subdividing space.