Uncluttered Classroom
Overview
Decreasing visual stimuli and disorder supports learners who have difficulty regulating sensory input and allows all learners to concentrate on classwork.
Example: Use This Strategy In in the Classroom
Design It into Your Product
Use It in the Classroom
A teacher gives us a tour of her uncluttered classroom, sharing the impact the space has on her students.
Design It into Your Product
Kahoot is a mobile polling product with a very simple interface. Notice how Kahoot focuses on consistent shapes and colors with few distracting visual stimuli.
Additional Resources
Additional examples, research, and professional development. These resources are possible representations of this strategy, not endorsements.
Factors Supported by this Strategy
More Physical Space Strategies
Providing plenty of space for students promotes socially cooperative play and collaboration.
Dim or natural lighting provides a calming environment.
Having quiet space where students can go supports Self-Regulation.
Multiple tables and chairs on wheels allow for setting up the classroom to support the desired learning outcomes of each classroom activity.
Multiple display spaces promote collaboration by allowing groups to share information easily as they work.
Multiple writing surfaces promote collaboration by allowing groups to share information easily as they work.
Decreasing extra audio input provides a focused learning environment.
Books for vision differences support reading development for learners with visual needs.
Books of varying complexity and reading levels are necessary for all students to experience reading success.
Multicultural and Primary Language books are critical for supporting all students.
With rhyming and creative word use, poetry is a genre that supports the development of early literacy skills in particular.
Books with SEL topics, such as developing friendships and identifying emotions, help teach these skills.
Providing ways for students to adjust sound level supports individual auditory needs.
Providing ways for students to meet their individual temperature needs supports focus and Self-Regulation.
