Westfield High School - Weather Vane Yearbook (Westfield, NJ)

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Much of our lives, so far, have been centered on classroom activity: many of our earliest impressions are of rooms filled with blocks, dolls and trucks, books, blackboards, and maps. Now the furnishing of these rooms has changed somewThat; poster-bright walls of English rooms, sterile Science labs with delicate instruments and Math rooms with P- Q, x 2+y2 = 4 have replaced our former concepts of the classroom. Even the traditional row by row arrang- ment of desks has given way, in some instances, to the “classroom-in-the- round” set up. Toys and jungles gyms have given way not just to books, overhead projectors and cassettes but also to sewing machines, ovens, com- puters, typewriters, drawing boards, table saws and hydrolie jacks creating new and widely varied impressions of life and its opportunities. 8

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Individual teacher philosophy is reflected by the variety of furniture arrangements and the wall decorations. Different approaches to the learning process are also evident and influential in developing and mold- ing our impressions and perspectives. Traditional or innovative class- room atmosphere and also the student environment are some of the most important influences on the formulation of our ideas, attitudes and values. 9