>With the new development of the open classroom school, why is it that all the
>teachers tried to construct as many barriers as possible to create for
>themselves "new rooms" ? My fiancee, an El. Ed. major at the College of
>Saint Rose, also mentioned something to me about how teachers created rooms
>of their own by putting up barriers and such. She shared with me a little
>fact that these schools were built around the ideas of team teaching, but
>yet, teachers did not want to be part of this method of teaching. Is this
>true? What are some of the underlying problems to this spatial arrangement of
>the open classroom? What are some of the current philosophies on education
>these days and where it might be heading in the future?
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>--STephen Van Hoose
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