Today I watched an excellent TED talk on catering for introverted students in schools. I have often wondered how “open learning” and environments designed to suit this style of teaching and learning cater for these students. I’m sure most teachers do cater well for individual students in an open classroom but when you look at the environments that some schools are creating there are no nooks or individual pods for introverted students to recharge themselves. I think we cater well for introverted students here in our library as we have planned quiet spaces and individual learning spaces for our students as well as flexible spaces for collaborative teaching and learning.
