AMIT recently hosted a conference on pedagogical architecture and spatial design, where architect James Seaman explained how learning environments must change to enable new, 21st-century teaching and learning processes to develop.
Seaman is a principal and the Michigan studio director of Fielding Nair International, a global leader for educational facilities planning and architectural design. The firm has worked closely with AMIT to design the Gogya teacher training center and the Gogya classrooms at many of the network’s schools.
Seaman said the new learning environment must also reflect the educational institution’s pedagogical goals.
Teachers, principals, education experts, and Ra’anana’s mayor and other municipal figures attended the conference at AMIT’s Gogya teacher training center. Participants took part in workshops and a dialogue led by Education Ministry officials. They discussed innovation in education, professional development, and construction—all of which enables schools and networks in Israel to make radical changes in education.
“The AMIT network, in cooperation with the Education Ministry and municipalities across Israel, has set a goal for itself: to broaden the learning and teaching horizons of each student and teacher,” said Amnon Eldar, AMIT’s director general. “We are doing this by breaking conventions and paradigms and thinking outside of the box both architecturally and pedagogically.”
