Dr. Melanie Hayes
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704 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2019
last heard Feb 2022
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Uh each of the teachers is in a room, so the Big Minds kind of looks more like a home environment.
We have computers on tabletops and you know, there's tabletops in the art room, but there's not
desks and chairs in rooms in a typical setup like a classroom.
Lots of soft furniture and couches and the whole school
I designed it from um there's a book called The Third Teacher about how important the environment is for learning.
So I thought about what do our kids need in a sensory environment.
So the
The whole interior of Big Minds is sort of a sensory soothing environment.
And there's quiet places where kids can tuck away and read or
you know, meditate or do yoga or whatever it is they want to do to relax.
And then you know, there's like a a computer room and a science room and a
art room and a history room and and a library and things like that, but the kids can move about the school
at will.
They can work on whatever it is they want to work on.
Um we are there to encourage and facilitate and
Like I say, provide an enriched environment.
And then part of the enriched environment is uh our school is broken into two
set times in the morning is called investigation time.
And that's when the teachers are all doing cool things in their rooms that the kids can walk around and see what's going on.
Um, I once had an educator walk through and tell me in a very sort of snooty way that it looked like a preschool for big kids and I thought, Yes, that's it, that's it exactly you know it's this place where they can be creative and curious and they can go see what's going on.
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