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Redefining the classroom set-up post-Covid

We must not revert to the status quo post-pandemic, we must instead embrace the lessons of Covid if we are to increase engagement with learning. Shahana Knight suggests we begin with our classroom set-up and offers some ideas for mixing it up...


The last year has been a difficult one and, although it has been unsettling for both teaching staff and children, we have also learnt some great lessons that we can apply to the classroom in the future.

For the first time in a long time schools have had to break old habits and teaching styles, embracing the changing world more quickly than ever before: teaching virtually, adapting expectations and being more creative.

The truth is, it was about time we shook things up in education, because our conventional ways of teaching are outdated. It is understandable to want things to go back to how they were pre-Covid, but let’s not be too hasty to revert to the status quo.

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