The Learning Environment
Reyes, Karlotte Mildred H.
CPE 1
The Learning Environment
The core business of schools is to provide students with a rich learning environment that is open, respectful, caring and safe.
This ideal learning environment optimises wellbeing. It reflects a positive school ethos that makes the school an exciting, stimulating and welcoming place.
Schools do this by: developing and communicating an explicit commitment to wellbeing acknowledging individual differences and providing opportunities for all students to learn and succeed ensuring students have opportunities to participate in school decision-making processes applying consistent school-wide rules and consequences that are: collaboratively developed with students and the broader school community clearly explained positively enforced rewarding of good behaviour providing pastoral care for students maintaining a physical space, including cyber environment that maximises staff and student safety supporting staff wellbeing. We all know the importance of learning environment. It refers to the diverse physical, locations, contexts, and cultures in which students learn. Since students may learn in a wide variety of settings, such as outside-of-school locations and outdoor environments, the term is often used as a more accurate or preferred alternative to classroom, which has more limited and traditional connotations—a room with rows of desks and a chalkboard, for example. Educators may also argue that learning environments have both a direct and indirect influence on student learning, including their engagement in what is being taught, their motivation to learn, and their sense of well-being, belonging, and personal safety. For example, learning environments filled with sunlight and stimulating educational materials would likely be considered more conducive to learning than drab spaces without windows or decoration, as would schools with fewer incidences of misbehavior, disorder, bullying, and
CPE 1
The Learning Environment
The core business of schools is to provide students with a rich learning environment that is open, respectful, caring and safe.
This ideal learning environment optimises wellbeing. It reflects a positive school ethos that makes the school an exciting, stimulating and welcoming place.
Schools do this by: developing and communicating an explicit commitment to wellbeing acknowledging individual differences and providing opportunities for all students to learn and succeed ensuring students have opportunities to participate in school decision-making processes applying consistent school-wide rules and consequences that are: collaboratively developed with students and the broader school community clearly explained positively enforced rewarding of good behaviour providing pastoral care for students maintaining a physical space, including cyber environment that maximises staff and student safety supporting staff wellbeing. We all know the importance of learning environment. It refers to the diverse physical, locations, contexts, and cultures in which students learn. Since students may learn in a wide variety of settings, such as outside-of-school locations and outdoor environments, the term is often used as a more accurate or preferred alternative to classroom, which has more limited and traditional connotations—a room with rows of desks and a chalkboard, for example. Educators may also argue that learning environments have both a direct and indirect influence on student learning, including their engagement in what is being taught, their motivation to learn, and their sense of well-being, belonging, and personal safety. For example, learning environments filled with sunlight and stimulating educational materials would likely be considered more conducive to learning than drab spaces without windows or decoration, as would schools with fewer incidences of misbehavior, disorder, bullying, and