Listen to Elizabeth in conversation with International Community School Amman, Jordan. One of their #monalisaeffect conversations.
NEW Article: Are you observing your learning environment as much as your children?
Click through to read my latest article, written for the Early Years Foundation Stage Forum. It responds to some of the key comments and questions that practitioners/ teachers often share.
NEW Elizabeth Jarman article in The Link Magazine
https://speechandlanguage.info/resources/perch/magazine/thelinkissue14.pdf
Click through to read Elizabeth Jarman’s latest article, published in The Link Magazine, an SCLN publication for schools.
Garden International School, Malaysia
It’s great to see mainstream magazines picking up on the whole area of learning environments and questioning if convention classrooms are a thing of the past. This short piece highlights some of the fantastic work that is continuing to evolve at Garden International School in KL. We’ve been working together for a few years now. There’s a podcast on the home page of my website discussing some of the theory behind the changes made.
http://happygokl.com/are-conventional-classrooms-a-thing-of-the-past/
Bright Stars Nursery, Sunderland, UK
Bright Stars Nursery, Sunderland, UK
Our environment at Bright Stars Nursery consists of one purpose built room and a large outside space. We cater for children from birth to 5 years. Before we started implementing Elizabeth Jarman’s Communication Friendly Spaces™ Approach, our room was cluttered with tables and chairs, had no definition or specific inviting areas or spaces for children to really focus in, settle and ‘talk’. We felt our children were using the areas within the setting to run from activity to activity and did not seem to become focused on much. The noise level of the whole nursery was very loud and it felt chaotic. Resources lacked in terms of quality, there was no character and the space just seemed unloved. We knew we had a big challenge on our hands.
Visiting a School or Setting: A fresh pair of eyes
Take a look at my latest article, published today by EYFS Forum. It shares a few (of the many) questions I have and the sorts of observations I make when carrying out an environment audit.
If you’d like to book an environment audit then please get in touch!
The Singapore International School, Bangkok
Before working with ELIZABETH JARMAN®, our learning environment was not child friendly enough. It was harsh, bright, loud, not really welcoming, office or hospital-like, just not comfortable.
It’s really to important have the senior team on board to lead whole school change. Working with this Nursery and Kindergarten senior team over a few years has allowed targeted strategic development to evolve ~ Elizabeth Jarman
With delegates at learning environment workshops in Canada
With delegates at learning environment workshops in Canada.
Tibberton Primary School, UK
Before working with ELIZABETH JARMAN®, our school was full of brightly coloured classrooms. Walls had multi-coloured designs, were crowded with posters and had very little clear wall space. In the corridors all the notice and display boards were a dark red colour with black borders – this felt very oppressive, and the children crowded into the corridors nosily with little respect for each other. We lacked reading corners in the school but did have them in Reception.
Observing children’s behaviour and response in different parts of your environment is important and highlights it’s influence. ~ Elizabeth Jarman
Sharing research about learning environments with parents in Malaysia
Sharing research about learning environments with parents in Malaysia