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Designing Schools That Enhance Student Learning

設計能使學生學習進步的學校

EW: Can you give some examples of how changes to the learning environment affect student and teacher performance?

EW：你可以舉出一些學習環境的改變如何影響學生和教師表現的例子呢？

Le and Dewar: We have some great examples, and a lot of them are really simple. For instance, A.E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois, has integrated artwork into the school building -- two- and three-dimensional work. We created galleries off the main circulation space just for displaying student artwork. The school has developed a program for buying the best student works. That happens every year. The students get a small sum, their work goes on permanent display, and they learn that it has value, not only to them, but also to people who experience it. The program is modest, but it gives students the recognition and self-confidence they need to develop their creative talents.

Le and Dewar:我們有一些很棒的例子，而其中許多都很簡單。舉例而言，伊利諾伊州在林肯郡A.E.史蒂文生高中已經將藝術品融入到學校建築內-平面和立體的作品。我們在通往主要的流動空間內創造了藝廊只是為了展示學生的美術作品。學校已經擬定一個購買學生中最棒作品的方案。而且每年都在做。學生們得到一小筆錢，他們的作品將會永久被展示，而且他們從中學到作品不僅對他們自身，也對觀賞它的人產生價值。這個方案很適度，但讓學生們了解開發他們自身創造性才能的體認和自信。

Changes to the learning environment also can have an impact on the community beyond the school. We worked on a school on Chicago South Side. It was on the site of an elementary school that had been vacant for 14 years, and had become a real blight on the neighborhood. Chicago Public Schools decided to buy the site and develop a new high school there. The community has a rich African-American culture, so the school was named Ralph Ellison -- after the author of Invisible Man.

學習環境的改變也會對學校以外社區產生影響。我們在芝加哥南端經營一所學校。它是一所原來閒置了14年的國小舊址所改建，而且附近地區人士都知道它已經荒廢許久了。芝加哥公立學校總會決定買下這個舊址並且在這裡成立一個新的高中。這個社區擁有豐富的非裔美人文化，所以學校用隱形人的作者-瑞夫‧艾利森-的名字來命名。

We thought about how the new building represented Ellison ideas -- that intellectual discovery is a means to freedom. We found a great quote from the book and sandblasted it onto the glass face of the building. We wanted it to be subtle enough to instill a sense of wonderment in the students and also big enough to engage the community around the school. It looks like that may be happening; a nearby resident who was very critical of the project initially, now says the school is one of the greatest things to happen in the neighborhood. He now convinced the school is going to produce great leaders.

我們思考著新建築如何呈現艾利森的觀念--智識的發現是通往自由的手段。我們從書中發現一個很重要的引言而且將這段引言噴在大樓的玻璃面上。我們希望它精妙到足以將驚奇的概念灌輸到學生身上，而且也大到足以吸引學校附近的社區人士。它看起來似乎已經發生了；附近一開始本來有一位對我們這個方案的做法非常不以為然的居民，現在他說學校是這附近社區最偉大的事物之一。他現在對學校將培育出偉大的領導人這點深信不疑。