The ADA, enacted in 1990, prohibits discrimination against persons with physical and mental disabilities. The goal for classroom designers is to keep in mind persons with mobility, hearing, vision, and mental disabilities. Locate and design the teaching station, including the boards, audiovisual controls and projection screens to be barrier free. The door is near the teacher's desk to facilitate teacher-student conversation as students move in and out of the classroom.
Students can easily go to the marking surfaces and projection center.
Seats can be arranged into groups of up to five students for discussion. In classes of up to 25, all seats can be moved into a single circle or horseshoe. Flexibility is crucial to pedagogues that have been emerging in the last few decades and are likely to be more common in the future. Pedagogues based on research that demonstrates the efficacy of student collaboration with one another, student-teacher contact, classroom discussion, and student action in doing the methods of the discipline. Students can see the instructor and each other and the central screen from their seats.