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Educational Management

Notes (3) Doors : For getting more sunlight and fresh air the rooms should have doors facing
north. There should be two doors, one near the lecture room and another near the
laboratory. These should open outwards as it saves the space and is also convenient for
emergency exist. One door may be used for entrance and another for exit. Whatever plan
is adopted, a rigid observance of the rules of entrance and exit is a must. There can also be
a door connecting both the apartments, i.e., lecture room and laboratory.
(4) Windows : Three windows each 6' x 8' x 8 should be provided on the side opposite to the
doors. Out of these, one should be near the practical benches and two of these should be
near the seating accommodation. The windows should open outwards so that their inner
sills may be used as shelves. Wire gauze screens should be fitted to avoid flies and mosquitoes
etc. Provision should be made for the window blinds for darkening the room required for
various experiments. Adequate arrangements for ventilations should be made as proper
ventilation is necessary. The windows and doors should have glass panes to bring sky-light
in the laboratory.
(5) Furnishing of Lecture Room :
(i) Black board : There should be a blackboard of 10’x 4' size,
(ii) Teacher’s table : It should be at a distance of about three feet. The size of the table
shoud be 6’x 2’ high so that is may also be use as s demonstration table. No raised
platform is required for the table.
(iii) Seats : The lecture room should be have seating arrangement for 40 students.

There should be 20 dual tables of high with two students on each table.
The top of the table should be flat. The chairs or stools may be of wood or iron, are

high. The area allowed for dual tables and two chairs be with passage

1'
way of for single file and a space of to 3 at the sides. Thus, the total area
2

needed for 40 students is . The dual tables should be placed at a distance of
9 cm. to 120 cm. from the walls.
(6) Furnishing of Laboratory :
(i) Blackboard : A black board of 10’ X 4' should also be provided in the laboratory.
(ii) Tables : There should be a provision of 6 big plain-tables systematically arranged for
conducting, experiments. There should also be one smaller table for the use of the teacher
near the black board. It may also be used for keeping the apparatus and other material
required for the experiment. It may also act as the demonstration table. The top of
each table should be waxed or fixed with sheets of aluminium or glass to act as acid

resistant. The size of the table should be . Each table accommodates 4
students.
(iii) Shelf : The six big tables referred above should have a shelf along the working sides for
placing books and papers.
(iv) Sinks : No sinks should be provided with the laboratory tables. However, three sinks
should be fitted in the room one for teacher, and two for the students, one fitted in the
window recess and another in the recess in the wall. Each sink should provided with

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