The room
The classroom
How the room is set up, and why it is set up that way.
This page is waiting to be written
Nothing here is drafted, on purpose. How a room is arranged is a real teaching decision made by the person standing in it, and inventing an account of it would be worse than an empty page.
Bryan writes this one. The headings below are a starting shape — change, reorder or
delete them freely. The file is
site/content/classroom.html.
The room
To write: the physical arrangement. Where the screen is and where the teacher stands relative to it. Whether students sit at tables, in a circle, in rows. Where the scriptures and journals live. What is on the walls. What time the lights go on.
Why it is arranged that way
To write: what the arrangement is for. Which parts of the lesson it serves — the personal study block, the discussion, the journal close — and what a bad arrangement costs.
What is out on the table
To write: the standing supplies. Several lessons on this site call for specific things — a board with room to write around a drawing, a lamp and dimmable lights, a jigsaw puzzle with the lid hidden, a sturdy wall to lean against. Which of those live in the room and which get carried in.
The first five minutes
To write: what happens as students come in at 6:30 in the morning, before the devotional starts. This is early-morning seminary; arriving is its own event.
The last five minutes
To write: how the journal close actually runs. Whether it is silent, whether music plays, whether anyone reads aloud, what happens to the journals afterwards.