The open classroom is a school-organization movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, drawn partly from British informal-education practice, that replaced walled, single-grade classrooms with large open-plan learning spaces, mixed-age groupings, and child-chosen learning centers in place of a whole-class lesson schedule. Enthusiasm for it peaked in the mid-1970s before a widely reported backlash over noise, distraction and inconsistent outcomes led many schools to physically wall the open spaces back in, though some of its practices persisted inside conventional classrooms afterward.
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Central QuestionHow can school organization let students learn in ways suited to their individual differences rather than through one fixed whole-class lesson 2 Most Effective ForThird graders with low levels of anxiety, who were found to be more creative in open schools than in traditional schools 2 Classification
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1. New World Encyclopedia: Open Classroom
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students 'should be allowed to learn in ways suited to their individual differences'
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third graders with low levels of anxiety were more creative in open schools than in traditional school
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An open classroom is a student-centered learning space design format which first became popular in North America in the late 1960s and 1970s, with a re-emergence in the early 21st century.
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