Facilities

The School of Education and Social Policy is housed primarily within Annenberg Hall. Because the school is under one roof, the sense of community is strengthened. Classrooms, faculty offices, the deans' offices, academic advisors, and student mailboxes are all located in Annenberg.

The Tarry Center for Collaborative Teaching and Learning — perhaps one of the most thoughtfully designed spaces in the country for scientific study and improvement of educational practices — opened in December 1999. At the heart of the 15,500-square-foot center, which occupies the entire third floor of Annenberg Hall, are the Teaching and Learning Studios, two 1,500-square-foot classrooms equipped with extensive multimedia software systems. Simulating real-world classroom situations, these studios are used regularly by researchers, Northwestern students, in-service teachers and visiting educators to test new teaching concepts. The center is used as a training facility for elementary and secondary teachers with whom SESP researchers collaborate. It is also used to study and demonstrate the best practices in undergraduate and graduate teaching at Northwestern. The center serves as a national model for using advanced technology to develop and support innovative instruction. The primary goal of the center's work is to raise the level of teaching and learning in secondary schools and in other learning environments by demonstrating how seamlessly computing and networking technologies can be integrated with classroom teaching and learning.

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