ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the interactions in a computing classroom, welfare factors and the classroom environment, classroom and computer systems layout, working patterns, resource organisation and other organisational factors. It explains to understand how the above have an impact on the quality of learning and teaching in the computing classroom andd to improve learning and teaching through better management of your classroom environment and systems. The possible layouts for the computers in the computing room includes: around the edge of the room, against the walls, across the room in rows, Islands, mobile equipment. A computing classroom can be made to look particularly attractive and, most importantly, you can support learning with the imaginative use of wall displays. Use of displays is often a priority in primary classrooms but, as Lang observed around ten years ago, in secondary schools displays in classrooms were often a weak area.