AmTab Session: Designing K-12 Classrooms That Promote Well-Being and Comfort with Furniture, Signage, Graphics, and Décor

AIA Continuing Education Provider

1 LU

Room: E143-144

Audience:

AmTab

Call to Action:

Abstract:
 The evolution of today’s students and curriculum has rapidly changed over the last 2 decades, while K-12 learning environments have remained relatively unchanged in the last 20 years. We will identify the different learning styles of today’s students and teaching dilemmas. Then, incorporate these findings into K-12 classroom design with furniture, signage, graphics, and décor to impact student outcomes with well-being and comfort as key components of K-12 classroom design.

Course Sections:

  1. Today’s Students
  2. Learning Styles
  3. Classroom Design
  4. Ergonomic Furniture

Learning Objectives:

  1. Understand factors that influence today’s students and how they impact learning styles.
  2. Identify learning styles at the four learning stages and teaching dilemmas.
  3. Incorporate different learning styles into designing K-12 learning environments through furniture selections, signage, graphics, and décor.
  4. Establish outcome of student’s success.
Kimberly Cook
Kimberly Cook
Senior Interior Designer, Associate Principal, Perkins & Will

Kimberly combines years of Behavioral Health design expertise with the design of the classroom to positively affect the health, well-being and learning experience of those within. Her focus is around creating interior environments supported through trauma-informed and evidence-based design. She collaborates closely with her clients and multi-disciplinary design teams to create meaningful interior experiences that support learning and provide a sense of place unique to each solution. Her commitment to combining evidence and experience design into a comprehensive interior has influenced a diverse range of projects. Through her 20+ years she has designed healthcare, behavioral health, community health, science and technology, educational facilities and more. 

Meredith Swanson
Meredith Swanson
4th Grade Teacher, Chicago Public Schools

Meredith is a 4th grade reading and writing teacher with 20 years experience across grades K-5. She has taught in both Colorado and Chicago. She earned her National Board Teaching Certification in 2009. She spent two years working outside the classroom as a literary coach and instructional leader. Meredith believes that classroom set up and design is as critical to student learning as the content she teaches.  

Ronda Marr
Ronda Marr
Manager A&D Partnerships, AmTab

Ronda has worked with Architect and Design firms for the past 25 years. With a strong knowledge of the specification process, her focus is on leading architects and designers to world class architectural products. The past 4 years I have focused solely on K-12 Learning Environment with regards to behavior healthy and ergonomics.

LearningSCAPES 2024 Conference in Portland, Oregon

Venue

Oregon Convention Center
777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, Portland, OR 97232

Dates

October 16-19, 2024

Contact

Email: donna@a4le.org
+1 480.391.0840