Physical learning environment is the factor which the students are most familiar with because most of the students spend their times in the classroom, workplaces such as laboratories, library, and other outdoor places. The physical learning environment is what the teachers have to consider in the first place before they actually start teaching. Many time spent on thinking and planning is needed to be able to form an effective physical learning environment. In fact, the school and the teachers should consider the physical learning environment solemnly because the effective physical learning environment will trigger the prevention of the misbehaviors of the students and the solution to the misbehaviors of students. In addition, physical learning environment, the place where the education is carried out should be safe and appropriate for the learners. C. S.Weinstein and Junior. A. J. Mignano asserted the six basic elements of physical learning environment. Those six basic elements are “security and protection, as the social context, as a symbolic identifier, as a tool to do the task, having the function of fun and function as a place for student growth” (Weinstein. Mignano. 2003). There are many bad behaviors of students happening by the weakness of physical learning environment. Moreover, M. Tessmer and D. Harris have exhibited three kinds of physical factors of learning environment to improve effective teaching.
The first factor is the importance of learning facilities which
It is important to make the best possible use of space and equipment so the children can enjoy the activities.All children will have equal opportunities to develop movement skills and the environment will be changed to help children practise the mivements skills.When planning physical activity we ensure that no child is excluded from play and activities are modified as necessary.
Physical fitness is essential in education advancement. For the learner to be all rounded he has to obtain physical fitness. This will stimulate the mind of the learner thereby increasing his retention capacity of his mind. This is obtained through physical education that has become limited in education centers and school. To promote education and produce educated individuals, the learner should to set time everyday for the exercise.
A strength that was displayed in the environment of the classroom and school in general was its ability to be developmentally appropriate for the child’s age group. The institution did an outstanding job in incorporating child size and child oriented furniture. This made the classroom environment stimulating for the students. Another strength observed in this classroom was that there were labeled items around the classroom in multiple languages such as: Spanish, English, Vietnamese, and Korean. The classroom respectively had Spanish, English, Vietnamese, and Korean speakers. As observed there was audio visual equipment such as a cd player, speakers, projector, and computer. The teacher did a good job and utilized these audio visual equipment in various aspects of her teaching. The classroom provided multiple avenues for the student to explore various activities.
Creating an environment that is fun, active, and safe and where learning is facilitated is a challenge faced by all primary school teachers. Constructing this type of atmosphere is essen-tial and highly fundamental in ensuring that the children’s experience of physical education is a positive and didactic one. Though difficult to achieve this setting it can be obtained by en-suring the following aspects, methodologies and techniques are implemented by the teacher in the children’s Physical Education lessons.
Physical education plays a crucial role in the education of the whole student. While research supports the significance of movement in educating both the mind and body, many education institutions do not require physical education in their programs. Physical education contributes directly to the development of physical capability and fitness, while helping students make educated choices, and giving them the ability to understand the value of living an active lifestyle. A study featured in the Peabody Journal of Education expresses that the “results of a skillfully designed…program could possibly include all or a major part of the following: improved physical function, social adjustment, psychological adjustment, acquisition of specific
Ask any teacher what the most valuable part to their day is and they will say time. There is truly never enough time in the day to complete all the necessary tasks brought forward by the educational system. Teachers are urged to maximize their teaching time as much as possible with little to none physical activity breaks. Even though there are many unanswered questions about physical activity, the one that continues to present itself is, “what is considered the optimal amount of time for physical activity during the school day?” In the current study where Howie, Schatz, and Pate investigate physical activity and academic achievement, findings have suggested that when physical activity breaks are incorporated into the school day, there is an improvement in cognitive ability, however they did not state the amount of time spent on physical activity (Howie, Schatz, &Pate,2015). Although these findings are quite convincing, educators are still expected involve more curriculum that focuses on standardized testing and decrease physical activity breaks throughout the school day.
Today’s classroom setting is very complex and can be very challenging. Marzano (2010) claims that the most basic issue a teacher can contemplate is what they will do to establish and communicate learning goals, track pupils progress, and celebrate success. The teaching environment in the classroom has changed dramatically due to the many new innovations that have been added. Cohen (October 2010) mentions that the structures, resources, and baggage of an existing school or system can make working towards a new vision of teaching very intimidating.
The classroom environment plays an important role in the development of languages. Classroom environments need to be creative, stimulating and organise to promote a positive learning environment. If the classroom environments provided to students is lacking resources, unorganised and lacks classroom rules it will not only create a negative learning environment but can also affect children's mental health (American Sociological Association. 2011). A language classroom really needs to provide clear learning goals, feedback, opportunities to build social skills especially since the language being taught might be new to most if not all and most importantly it needs to provide students with different strategies to help them success (Young, 2009). Provide a positive classroom environment will not only motivate students to learn but also help them feel valued which can result in students to succeed.
The classroom has an esstainal role for the learning procress of a child. It’s not only a place for students to just sit at thir desk and listen to the teacher but also a safe eveviroment for the children to learn. The way a classroom is arranged can improve the learning ennrioment. Savage (1999) stated that the classroom envrioment has shown that the arragaemnt and the decoration of the classroom can
Do kids these days get enough social time or active time during there school day? Physical education or activity should be required during a teens school day.Kids these days are becoming overweight since they don’t do any activities during or out of school and we are going to be talking about that.
Environment is all the physical and social conditions that surround and can influence a person’s health. A learner’s physical environment on the other hand include the class surrounding like locker ,chairs and other items that are physical found either inside or outside and around the class. Social environment refers to the immediate social setting in which people live or in which something happens or develops. It
It is the teacher’s responsibility to create a supportive environment in the classroom. To do so, teachers must be aware of their own mindset and actions as well as having a general idea of their student’s mindset. Students are to feel comfortable, wanted, valued, accepted, and secure in an environment where they can interact with caring people they trust and learning is perceived as interesting, relevant, and important. A supportive environment is that one where students are learning not only the content of the course, but also how to be successful students, and the teacher plays a role model. It is crucial to establish classroom norms and expectations while fostering student accountability that communicate respect, fairness, and high expectations to all students. Teachers must acknowledge the reality of the challenges that students perceive avoiding comments that minimize challenges. Students are to be assisted in their efforts to meet the teacher’s high expectations for the course by helping them learn strategies for successful studying, class preparation, and participation. To this end, while building on students' prior knowledge and skills, they are to be provided with appropriate scaffolding so students move more easily from what they know to what they need to know.
As I walked into the classroom, I noticed many visuals, hands on materials, child size tables and chairs. The visuals around the classroom were pictures/ descriptions that can help the children identify things around the room. For example: centers, a word wall that consisted of sight words that they have learned in the past and words that are being added, shapes and colors, a calendar, classroom rules, and a sign language chart so that the children can learn his or her alphabets in sign language. In addition, the children’s authentic artwork were posted on the art board. For a large group of 15 children, the classroom space was very limited. In this specific classroom, the ratio was 2:15 (1 teacher, 1 aide and 15 children) and this classroom isn’t shared with another class. The classroom has two long tables with six chairs per table: six red chairs and six blue chairs. The cooperating teacher explained that she has a red table and blue table because she wanted to separate specific friends due to behavioral issues. For circle time, the teacher has a rocking chair right in front of the circle time mat and everything on the circle time board is to the children’s eye level and child size. The circle time rug is big enough so that the children have space and they can see and hear the teacher. So far from what I have observed, the children have access to books, crayons, markers, writing utensils such as pencils, and journals.
Time frame of the placement, i.e., total practicum hours, dates of overall placement (beginning and end dates). Also, include the schedule and locations of student assignments.
Teaching physical education is one field of teaching that involves a lot of flexibility. Not just physical flexibility, but flexibility to adapt and adjust to students and curriculum that is require. There are three distinct teaching styles that teachers should use in order to give their students a more well-rounded education. There is direct, indirect, interactive teaching. Each strategy can be applied to physical education and is important be incorporated into a teacher’s syllabus to guarantee that their students learn.