TOPIC 3: Fair Learning Environment
Try this!
A LOOK BACK AFTER YOU SAID, “FAIR-WELL”, TEACHER! : What do you remember the
most on the way you were treated by your previous subject teacher/class adviser in your
elementary or secondary school years? (NOTE: Focus on one). Check ( ) the box that
corresponds to your class observation and answer the succeeding questions.
YES NO
The teacher provides us opportunities to make mistakes.
✓
The teacher knows us well. ✓
The teacher provides a wide range of options from which we can ✓
choose from in order to engage in an activity.
We are allowed to engage in a variety of experiences to learn a ✓
new concept or skill.
We are encouraged to express ourselves.
✓
The teacher extends the lesson so that all of us will benefit from it.
✓
The teacher utilizes various ways of determining how we learn. ✓
Source: Field Study 1 – A Guide for 21st Century Student Teachers (Pawilen, [Link].,2019)
1. What can you say about the learning environment you had before?
➢ I had a positive and fair learning environment before because I feel that I am safe and no one will
judge me if I made a mistake and motivated to do our best because our teacher is always there to
support us.
2. In your own point of view, how do you think your teacher can further promote a fair learning
environment? Cite examples.
➢ Address the learner’s need and give them feedback. By doing this it can promote a fair learning
environment.
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Think ahead!
1. What do you think could have contributed to the presence or absence of a fair
learning environment in previous classroom?
➢ I think when the teacher gave us opportunities to make mistake makes the learning environment
fair because we have a chance to learn from our mistakes and our teacher encourages us to give
our best and don’t be afraid to express ourselves. Moreover, the teacher is not using only one
strategy but they make sure to use different strategy to cater all the students learning style.
2. How does a fair learning environment affect the way children learn? Support your
answer with familiar situation.
➢ If the students are in a positive learning environment they are motivated to be to learn and they
are free to ask questions and free to share their ideas and most specially they are not afraid to
commit mistake.
Read and Ponder
Providing a safe learning environment to students is any teacher’s goal. Thus, to ensure
that students feel safe, a teacher should allow students to be themselves, commit mistakes,
and be in a fair environment. A fair learning environment promotes teaching that considers
varied mode of delivery for all lessons. This does not enforce uniformed expectations to all
students as well as the academic experiences all the time. But instead, this offers lessons,
strategies and challenges which addresses student’s individual needs.
Teachers who give great importance to academic achievements bring about
inequalities in the classroom because this often alienate students that are not as gifted
academically as the others. Spratt and Florian (2013) describe a fair learning environment as
a place that promotes an inclusive pedagogy which delivers diverse experiences, activities
and opportunities. Hart [Link]. (2004) also supported that an inclusive pedagogy endorses a fair
learning environment because students are given the chance to acquire knowledge from a
series of opportunities and experiences by the teacher. Thus, it is very vital for teachers to
adopt various teaching techniques that suit the different learning capabilities of the students.
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See if you can do this!
WHAT’S YOUR FAIRy-TELL? Have you ever been in a fair learning environment? Share your
actual school experiences (try to be more specific as possible) by filling-out the table below.
My previous teacher By… Like… And I felt…
provides varied… (How was this done?) (Cite an example.) (How did you feel?)
➢ By letting us do the ➢ Gardening, ➢ I felt nervous at
… experiences experiment on our doing science first because I
own but with their experiments, don’t know
guidance sewing clothes, what to do but
especially in and cooking. with the
science guidance of our
experiments. In TLE teacher, I was
also our teacher able to
let us do our own accomplish all
garden start from of my task and it
doing a plot, next really feels good
making seedbed, to do something
then transplanting, that I thought I
and taking care of couldn’t do.
the plant up until
harvesting.
➢ By giving to us first ➢ Solving math ➢ I felt challenged
… activities the instruction then problems, by that time
the teacher will drawings, and because we
give us time to do making collage. need to finish
the activity and the activity on
after that we are time because
going to present we are only
the output that we given few
have. minutes to work
on our activity.
➢ By giving us the ➢ Group activities, ➢ I felt happy that
… opportunities chance to work on showing our time because
our own and the talents, and we have the
teacher is only debate. opportunity to
there to support discover new
and guide us. things on our
own and
enhance our
skills and talent.
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