The Different Aspects of the Learning Environment

This artifact is a reflection on a presentation I attended by Tim Wise. The presentation focused on social, racial and economic inequality in America and how that has an impact on many things within our country. This presentation impacted me so much as a person and future teacher since it made me more aware of all of the different injustices my students could face and the diversity I will have in my future classroom. This artifact fits under standard #9: professional learning and ethical practice, since this reflection demonstrates how I am continuing to learn and attend presentations to help me adjust my way of teaching. This is only one of the presentations that I have attended throughout my college career but it was also one that stuck with,

The video, “Learning From Others,” talks about how students can learn in a social context. A fifth-grade teacher, Yvonne Scott, is able to create a social system by implementing a butterfly garden into the learning process. Later, a ninth and twelfth-grade teacher, Avrom Barlowe, uses the concept of manage dialogue to teach history. Both of these teachers were able to increase students academic and human community success.

Teachers can earn their right to inspire by creating a relationship with the class. As Sara Quay and Quaglia Russell state "The more your students feel that they are part of the classroom community, the more likely they are to become connected to the course, the subject, and even the school." It is because of this that the Jaime Escalante was so successful with his class. The teacher is usually held accountable for the student ability or inability to learn, what most people don’t consider is the fact that one of the largest factor in a student learning, is what is going on in their personal life. It is why Jaime Escalante has to refer to improper diction and real life situation in order to

Throughout this semester, we explored a variety of social justice issues and how they intertwine with education. As a pre-service teacher, the content of this class helped me understand my current lens in society, specifically discovering my privileges and how those can influence my teaching practices. Furthermore, this class helped me analyze the experiences of different students in a classroom and how to incorporate these experiences into instruction via asset thinking. Finally, I enjoyed collaborating with other students for ways to integrate social justice into all subjects, especially science. Throughout all the activities, readings, discussions, and case studies I have developed a critical lens and provoked more thought about my educational

Nguyen’s continued enthusiasm trickled down to Alicia Lopez, who wanted to teach those students who experienced inequities in the school system. Diversity as we know it! Students of various race, ethnicity, and social, economic status. On the job, learning became a factor for Lopez as she became teaching in an area where classes were small, and generous resources were available, and mentoring was available. As a result of

At SPIN: Frankford, the learning climate of the classroom was very calm, quiet, and positive. The classroom was observing the children were very comfortable asking questions. If a child had a question or did not understand what the teacher was saying, the students did not hesitate to ask questions. When the students needed help or were asking questions the teachers were there to help them right away. One example is the assistant teacher would sit with the children individually and let them talk to her; she would listen to them until they were done talking. By the teacher letting the students talk to her individually is giving the students more reassurance that they can be comfortable with their teachers. The teachers did interact and respond

In an interactive lesson designed to illustrate the effects of social privilege within a class system,

As a pre-service educator it is imperative to understand a student’s social background and their connections within society. Julie Matthews regards education being concerned with the transmission of culture, values, beliefs, knowledge and skills (2013,p166). Social insights into learner’s backgrounds can expose how and why student’s act and think in a particular way. Developmentally the sociology of education has provided numerous theories, the functionalist perspective, the conflict perspective, Forms of Capital and the Virtual Backpack Theory, which contributes to and underpin the skills teachers can employ into their learning environments and practice. Theorist Matthews believes that effective pedagogy occurs only when one has gained a thorough understanding and sensitivity of past and present social conditions (2013,. P167). The development of professional practice, curriculum and educational policies can be created using pedagogical knowledge of a student’s social context (socio-economic status, demographics, and cultural differences), therefore creating an enhanced educational outcome for learners.

The learning environment committee was responsible for understanding how to create a classroom/environment that promoted learning in schools. The learning environment committee chose to make classrooms that are modern and simplistic, yet using bright colors that promote positive attitudes in the classroom. The first policy was to leave three walls of the classroom a neutral color and have one wall that is a bright color, leaving the blinds open to allow light to shine into the classroom, and also to limit the use of red in a classroom (red is shown to have negative moods that accompany it). All three of parts of the first policy passed and as a future educator I felt that these were all very good ideas to promote positive attitudes and thinking in the classroom. A student spends most of their school day in the classroom and in order for them to be successful many times their moods play a large role in them doing well. If a student is in a bad mood their more than likely not focusing on school and if having a positive learning environment helps the student learn it is necessary to make sure that positive learning classrooms are there. The next policy focused on math and how teachers can practice and teach math to their students using math games, which helps with the fact that boys and girls learn differently. This policy passed after it was amended, so that teachers are not forced to play math games but so the teachers will have the resources if they need them. I personally

As an educator it is important to make all students feel that they are welcomed in the learning environment. In order for such environment to take place, an educator must build around the students’ personal experiences. An educator trying to build such learning environment will have a higher chance of success if they as facilitators can build around the students social, cultural and linguistic experiences of their lives. These experiences can play a major factor on a student’s learning environment. These three experiences are important factors that can affect the way a student learns or why the students may think a certain way.

Personal learning environment refers to personalized learning which located the learner at the center of the learning process. There are many definitions of a personal learning environment in literature and they describe the practice of personal learning environment as a system of learning or learning approach. One of the new definition of personal learning environment that describes personal learning environment as Web 2.0 tools and services by which users’ access, construct, manage, and share educational contents in order to meet their learning needs (Şahin & Uluyol, 2016). In addition, a personal learning environment is a space for the learner to create, explore and communicate (Dalsgaard 2006, p. 2). As Van Harmelen (2008) noted that a personal learning environment is contained of the computer-based parts of what he refers to as the “learning ecosystem’’. Del, Arquero, & Romero (2015) point out “personal learning

Over the last sixteen weeks I have grown in so many ways that have affected my view on education today. Our world and education today is much different than what it was in the past. I think a major misconception about teaching is that we just teach curriculum, however, teachers serve many different roles in their classrooms and schools. These roles are created because of many different factors, such as sociometric status, poverty levels, and school systems. As we learned in our class, students react to these different factors in many ways and these are main reasons that will affect a classroom. In this essay, I will be discussing our navigations through the social justice issues and other factors that classrooms face by talking about the key points of our class throughout the semester.

The Challenge I chose was Advancing Personal Learning. Personal Learning is the tailoring of curriculum and learning environments by learners or for learners in order to meet their different learning needs and aspirations. Before I go into the details of why I chose this topic, it is important to know what Personal Learning Environments, a current form of Personal Learning, actually are. A Personal Learning Environment (PLE) are systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning(Wikipedia). These systems are centered on the user, and are tailored to each individual to allow them to set their own learning goals, manage the process of taking in content, and to help them learn to communicate with others. Since these PLEs are user-specific, it is significantly harder to carry out on a large scale, but after they are able to be implemented, it is a lot easier to coordinate and manage from a supervisor or teacher perspective. There are already examples of more broad forms of PLEs, such as iGoogle, Edline, and Moodle. These examples are more general and will work for most people because what each person does with the access to material and content is up to them. However, I believe that personal learning can be advanced to greater heights than that.

The traditional setting is where a student sits in a classroom and learns from an instructor during lecture and demonstration. Bo Keum Choi, of the Institute for Whole Person Education with Sogang University, and Ellen L. Park, of the Baird University College at SoongSil University, (2014), state “The traditional college classroom design is based on the educational space that first appeared in medieval universities. Since then classrooms have not changed except in their size.”(749) This shows that the traditional classroom has remained the

I view the literate environment as one that is ever changing and evolving, which is why I prepared two concepts of the optimal learning classroom. This is based directly on my experience as both a co-teacher and a single classroom teacher and on my research. I have found that when a teacher keeps their room in exactly the same way they started the year with, and the students are walking in on day 150, the stagnancy can be overwhelming to the students and no longer promote a creative learning environment. The classroom setup can be, and should be used, as a tool to go along with the lesson plan and activities. As Dr.