Rethinking Student Success
Knowledge
Knowledge
Design for Active Learning
Regardless of the grade level, subject matter or class size, today’s best classrooms are designed for participative, active and engaging learning experiences that help students function at their best — physically, cognitively and emotionally.
Skills
Skills
Hands-On Experiences
The portfolio of learning spaces is expanding to support hands-on experiences. These spaces include:
- Maker spaces
- Project rooms
- Collaboration hubs
- Innovation labs
- Virtual reality environments.
Development
Development
Personal Development
For holistic learning, social spaces are essential. These spaces include:
- Social commons
- Community hubs
- Cafes
- Lounges.
Teaching the Creative Process
Sparking Creativity
Sparking Creativity
Teaching Creativity Today
A key component of student success is the ability to think creatively. To address this need, schools are scrapping old paradigms and using new, innovative pedagogies and learning spaces to teach creativity. Based on extensive research at schools, colleges and universities, Steelcase has developed design considerations for creative learning environments.
Teaching the creative process has three main parts:
- Think
- Make
- Share
Think
Think
Supporting the Creative Process
Non-hierarchical spaces, such as classrooms that users can rearrange to support different groups and the various modes of the creative process, allow for a better flow of ideas.
Make
Make
Build to See What Works
Maker spaces encourage students to build and tinker with things, to see what works and what doesn’t.
Share
Share
Concepts + Projects on Display
Sharing involves putting concepts and projects on display — in analog and digital formats — to share with other students, faculty, the entire class and even the community at large.
Featured Products
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The Brody WorkLounge and Desk are private workspaces that are designed to be good for your body and good for your brain – providing places to get away without going away.
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The Node chair is mobile and supports all the ways students learn. It’s designed for quick, easy transitions in the classroom, and to support learning modes across the campus.
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Thread simplifies power distribution, providing power to the devices we use and the places where we work and learn.
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Verb is an integrated collection of classroom furniture including tables, whiteboards, and instructor lectern and desk stations designed to support a full range of teaching and learning styles.
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media:scape integrates technology and furniture to bring people, space and information together for a greater collaborative work environment and more productivity than ever before.Additional Resources
Active Learning: Insights + Applications Guide
Students prepare for a future no one can predict and jobs that, in many cases, haven’t been invented yet. Educators are responding to these diverse forces with a refreshing openness, adopting active learning and embracing new technology. Our Insights and Applications Guide provides the latest thinking on classroom design and learning spaces.
Steelcase Education
Steelcase Education is focused on helping schools, colleges and universities create the most effective, rewarding and inspiring active learning environments to meet the evolving needs of students and educators. We have a passion for understanding how learning best takes place and how smarter, active learning spaces can help.
Spaces + Inspiration
Explore Steelcase research, designs and ideas for active learning classrooms, libraries and in-between spaces.