Learning Episode 5 Preparing the Learning Environment: An Overview
To have a meaningful and successful accomplishment in this FS episode, be sure to read through the
whole episode before participating and assisting in your FS 2 Resource Teacher’s class. Note all the
information you will need and tasks you will need to do before working on this episode.
TARGET MY INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the ed of this Learning Episode, I must be able to revisit the concept of learning environment in the
context of the current teaching and learning situation.
Clarify your Task
Overview of the Learning Environment
A learning environment, traditionally called the classroom, is a space in a school that supports student
learning. It is a self-contained area where teacher teaches, and children learn. In the classroom are chairs
and tables for students and a front table for the teacher. This a traditional face-to-face classroom. Most
often the students should face the teacher as the chairs are arranged that way. But the teaching deliveries
changed to enhance learning, modification in the seating arrangement evolved and more opportunity for the
learners to move about for cooperative learning was addressed.
A conductive learning environment should have the following characteristics:
• Flexibility- There is opportunity to have small groups, movable walls.
• Openness- Learning concerns/areas which could be shared.
• Access to resources- Audio-visual materials are ready and open for use.
• Physical classroom- Space is clean and safe.
• Psychological atmosphere- It is friendly and accommodating.
The classroom climate nurtures the intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development of the
students.
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Here are some specific strategies for developing the optimal classroom climate. You may consider
these.
1. Learning environment addresses both physical and psychological needs of the students for
security and order, love and belonging, personal power and competence, freedom, and fun.
2. Create a sense of order. For example, teacher should teach students how to
• Enter the classroom and become immediately in the activity.
• Distribute and collect materials.
• Find out about missed assignments due to absence and how to make up for them.
• Get the teacher’s attention without disrupting the class and
• Arrange desks, tables quickly and quietly for various purposes.
3. Greet learners as they enter your face-to-face or on-line classroom.
4. In a healthy and conductive learning environment, everybody belonging and knows each other.
5. Encourage class building activities like games and team activities.
6. In a conductive learning environment, success whether small or big is recognized and celebrated.
Both approaches, either the traditional face-to-face or online, lead to positive results but in
different ways, so usually in practice both approaches are combined
Revisit the Infographic/s
Face-to-face Learning Environment On-line Learning Environment
• Time
• Time is set.
• Place
• Self-contained classroom • Time • Teacher’s Role
• Discussion, activities occur inside the • Student’s Role
room. Passive Listening • Place
• Content
• Teacher prepares instructional • Teacher’s Role • Evaluation
Activities and chooses content. • Process
• Student’s Role • Anytime, anyplace, anywhere
• Facilitates F2F learning. Leads
• Synchronous or asynchronous
And guides learners
• Content classes.
• Learners & teacher engage in • Teacher moderates and
Personal communication. • Evaluation Process facilitates learning
• Creates different learning
environment
• Creates the multimedia
educational content.
Learning environment can be traditional (F2F), virtual (on-line) or a combination (Hybrid).
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Participate and Assist
What will you do to assist your mentor in setting up a conductive learning environment in the following
conditions:
1. Bulletin Board Display
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2. Small Group Discussion
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3. Checking class attendance in a virtual classroom (i.e., google meet or zoom)
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Notice
Learning Environment 1:
• What have you noticed of the display in the class bulletin board? What message or theme
does it convey?
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• What makes it attractive to the learners?
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• Does it help in the learning process?
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Learning Environment 2:
• If the teacher is using a distance delivery of learning through the modules, where is most
likely the learning space of the students?
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• Can you describe?
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• How can you as a teacher help to make such environment conducive for learning?
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Analyze
Analyze
The examples above, describe two contrasting situations. The first shows that the
learners are in the same room or space while in the second, the learners maybe in different
learning spaces like homes, study hubs or in extreme cases parks or under the trees.
As a teacher, in which of two situations would you prefer to manage for learning? Choose
between Learning Environment 1 or Learning Environment 2.
Explain your choice: why? _______________________________________________
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Reflect
Based on my noticing and analysis, I realized that
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Write Action Research Prompts
OBSERVE
What probable problem may result from the two situations of the learning environment?
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REFLECT
What solutions can I think of to solve the problem?_____________________________
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PLAN
How should I do it?
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Check for Mastery
Choose the best answer from the options given.
1. Learning environment is only confined to a specific place called schools. This statement is
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A. True
B. False
C. Doubtful
D. Cannot be determined
2. What kind of learning happens anytime, anyplace, and anywhere?
A. Traditional learning
B. On-line learning
C. Hybrid learning
D. Face-to-face learning
3. In which situation can learners learn with more physical presence and intervention of the
teacher?
A. Face-to-Face
B. Virtual
C. On-line
D. All of the above
4. Which of the two kinds of learning environment encourage independence and self-
management of the learners? Why?
A. Face-to-Face, because there is always the presence of the teacher who will give
guidance to the learner.
B. Virtual/On-line, because the learners are given time to learn on their own and
progress at their own rate.
C. Both, because they can always shift from one modality to another.
D. Face-to-Face, because there is always the need of a teacher in a classroom all
the time.
5. If on-line or virtual learning environment is not applicable, the traditional face-to-face or
in-school will continue. How will you improve the physical learning environment?
A. Use tables with chairs to allow cooperative learning.
B. Provide learning spaces or concerns for independent study.
C. Give credits to success than failures.
D. A, B and C
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Work on my Artifacts
In not less than 300 words, write an easy on the topic: “My Conducive Learning Environment”.
“My Conducive Learning Environment”
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