The Four Rooms of Change in schools

The Four Rooms of Change has been used successfully in schools for many years. The concept has a measurable effect on learning and clearly reduce bullying.

Can everyone at school—management, staff, students, and parents—work together to create a better school? The Four Rooms of Change model is an effective method for achieving this goal.

It is easily accessible and can be used by students, teachers, and school leaders without difficulty in their daily activities.

It develops the whole school

The four rooms of change are not a repository of knowledge or behavioral changes that you pour into students. Everyone benefits equally from it: the school’s management, all the adults at the school, the students, and the students’ families and relatives. The Four Rooms are useful and beneficial to everyone — students and everyone around them.

It promotes development for individuals and groups

Everyone starts by constructing the Four Rooms based on their own experiences. The Four Rooms are the four basic psychological states that form part of the Four Rooms theory. Everyone can do this, and constructing them together with others builds the glue that influences the classroom climate (or the climate of the management or work team). With the special techniques that have been developed, children as young as three can participate in the construction, and there is no upper age limit.

The Four Rooms of Change support all aspects of school development

Using the Four Rooms in all school subsystems undoubtedly leads to development in terms of climate, student health, the working environment, equality plan implementation, and more constructive meetings with parents and relatives.

Entire systems (or clusters) of schools can be developed in parallel.

Get started quickly with the Four Rooms in your school

The Four Rooms is quick to implement in schools. It takes one and a half to two working days for a management or work team (or all adults in the school) to start using the Four Rooms of Change. For an individual teacher to start using it in their classroom, it takes two to three weeks alongside all other schoolwork.

The Four Rooms contributes to the development of the teaching profession

The vast majority of teachers who have started using the Four Rooms in their classrooms say much the same thing:

Teaching has become much more enjoyable.

Many also say something like: “It doesn’t take time away from other things, as many seem to believe; it gives more time for the schoolwork itself.”

An assistant principal at a large college in Melbourne, Australia, described the difference between Four Rooms of Change and all the other programs he has tried during his many years as a school leader:

“There are many things that distinguish the Four Rooms of Change from all the other programs I have tried over the years. Perhaps the most important is the way it helps each student take responsibility for their own learning.”