A: You can do this by following 8 easy guidelines.
- Create projects that are related to the student's lives and interests.
- Concentrate on the final project instead of the smaller steps it takes them to get there.
- Instead of using individual learning techniques, focus on cooperation and collaboration
- Link the lesson back to real life situations and ideas.
- Focus the activity around a problem that the students must solve
- Practice respect in the classroom-student to teacher, teacher to student and student to student
- Instead of a dictatorship in the classroom, use a more democratic approach.
- Communicate...Communicate...Communicate!
Q: Why should I care about creating a positive learning environment?
A: Learning environments reflect what and how the students will learn.
Q: What things can passive learning environments tell about the classroom values?
A: A typical passive learning environment tells the student that they must sit in their assigned seat and stay quiet unless they are speaking with the teacher. These environments tell the student that individualized work is valued over cooperation and collaboration.
Q: What types of problems can come from commission?
A: Items that are available but placed or used in an inappropriate manner might have an inverse result than initially intended. For instance, inappropriately placed loud video equipment might interfere with a quiet study area of the room.
Q: What types of problems can come from omission?
A: If students do not have access or easy access to items, they will simply not take part in activities that utilize and learn from those tools.
Q: What kind of learning environments influence student learning?
A: The arrangement of furniture and types of furniture chosen are the main influences of a learning environment. However, available tool and resources are just as important.
Q: What are some differences between individual learning environments and social learning?
A: Individualized learning environments are quiet and students are separated from each other. There is little to no collaboration encouraged. Students are expected to sit in their assigned seats and communicate only with the teacher. In a social learning environment, however, students are encouraged to collaborate and cooperate with other students and the teacher. The teacher directs activities instead of standing in front of the room spilling out facts. Students have options as to where in the room they would like to do projects. There tends to be a section in
the classroom where collaboration activities can take place without interfering with quiet work of the other classmates.
Q: Why should I concern myself with multimedia software?
Chosen correctly, multimedia software have been shown to enhance education, especially inn math and science.
Q: Is there anything to worry about when choosing multimedia software?
Most multimedia software is created by business and not professional educators. Thus, you need to first evaluate the software you will be using before you actually use it in the classroom. Make sure to choose software that is truly educationally based. Take care to not just choose the flashiest product or one that does not create a collaborative learning environment.
Q: How can I be responsible for changing student's values by myself?
You cannot do this on your own. One teacher cannot really make a change without the cooperation of the community, parents, and the school. They must also see the importance in changing these values and fully support the change. The students must see what they are doing in the classroom is also what is being taught at home. The more it is encouraged in the classroom (involving parents, students, school staff and other community members) the more it will be dispalyed outside of the school environment.
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