Classroom design recipe is a learning and teaching tool that aims to propose opportunities to rethink classroom space design in order to facilitate and support learning and influence innovative teaching practices. Additionally, Classroom Design Recipe inspire teachers to change, use and prepare the classroom space to support and facilitate learning activities.

1. Classroom Café
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2. Why
Why use this card? Benefits classroom users’ will get
when they use this card:
• Creating a tool that will aid teachers in
applying diverse teaching strategies
such as brain storming, problem
solving and cooperative teaching
strategies.
• Involving students in designing the
classroom space.
• Motivating and stimulating students
to use the classroom space through
competitions.
• Creating another space within the
classroom space.
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3. Why
Why use this card? Benefits classroom users’ will get
when they use this card:
• Connecting the learning process and
the curriculum with reality.
• Connecting students with the outside
classroom space.
• Students participating in decision-
making through voting.
• Creating different seating
arrangements in the classroom space.
• Using space to support teaching and
learning.
• Providing a learning experience that
responds to diverse students’ learning
styles.
• Designing an interactive wall and
flooring in the space.
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4. How
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In order to apply this card, the teacher with
her/his students first needs to:
Create a café structure inside the classroom space
or in the corridor.
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The café structure is
created outside the
classroom space in the
corridors, the teacher
can connect it with the
classroom space
through the flooring.
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6. How
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How to use the café structure.
The café structure can be an effective teaching
tool and there are unlimited ways in which the
café structure can be used in order to support
diverse teaching strategies. For example:
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1. Teachers can create a competition among
students on “Design Your Café”. Each student or
group of students design a logo for the café and
choose colours for it. After that, competitors’
work is displayed on the walls and students vote
for the best café. Finally, the teacher and students
work together to apply the winning idea. This
involves students in designing parts of their own
classroom space and gives them the opportunity
to make decisions.
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2. Ask students to cook at home and bring in what
they have cooked to sell in the café. The money
raised can be used to support other classroom
activities. However, cooking and selling are also
useful learning processes where students can
learn to solve real problems instead of proposed
ones; teachers can also connect this process with
the teaching curriculum by, for example: addition
and subtraction while selling what they have
cooked; learning how to count money through
selling; experiencing the mixing of different
cooking ingredients; and learning about weights
and measurements.
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3. Creating different seating arrangements around
the café structure. This can be used to enhance
socialisation amongst students.
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4. The café structure could be used to teach
students how to start a business. Each student or
group of students could be given a small amount
of money and they can choose something to sell
in the café.
5. A library can be added to the café structure by
hanging up bookshelves, and creating a reading or
eating area.
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6. The idea of the corridor café can be extended;
more shops can be opened to create a corridor
mall.
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13. What
What do teachers expect when using this card?
How might the learning space look?
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16. Apply and Share
#Classroom_Design_Recipes
#Classroom_Café #your_name
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