3. Assesing your Classroom?
● Try an Experiment! Walk around your classroom on your knees and observes your environment closely,
you will be amazed, you will see the things that you have ever seen before, or at the very least, your
perspective of your room will change dramatically.
● What can I do to enrich this Environment?
● What can I do to to facilitate and maximize the learning process to my students?
‘ Wise Teachers will enrich their students’ environment to facilitate Physical,
emotional, mental, and spritual growth.’
5. Physically Enriching the Environement
● Order : Provide a place for everything helps
children to organize their environment. Believe
it or not, young children have a strong order
● Categorize : Labeling, code or put pictures on
shelf or containers.
● Color : we all respond to color, whether or not
we are aware of it. Color is a fun concept to
play with. ‘ I wonder what an elephant would
look like red.’
6. Emotionally Enriching the Environement
Children are like sponges they absorb what
is around them physically as well as
emotionally. As you examine what you have
placed in their environment, what message
you are sending?
God made children in need of training
guidance
7. Mentally Enriching the Environement
Adults work for living and play to relax
For Children work is play and play is work,
they imitate what they see.
So it is wise to create an environment filled
with child size work as seen from adult
world
Let’s take a child who has just had a very
painful and unexpected shot at the
doctor’s office. The well meaning adult in
her life, whom she trusts completely, has
said, ‘ this is good for you, but it will sting
for a minute.’
8. Mentally Enriching the Environement
● Allow opportunities for creative, imaginative
play.
● Reading books
● Provide a wide variety of intellectually
stimulating activity ( music, book, puzzle)
While you seek to challenge your students to
be the most they can be, be careful not to rush
them. You do not want to over educate them
9. Spritually Enriching the Environement
Provide areas where children can be quiet,
reflective and contemplative.
● On a low shelf place a bible
● Poster or pictures to show children
being loving, kinds and gentle
● Bible verse around the room
10. Creating Creative Learning Environment
● Make the wall part of the
lesson ( words, statements,
pictures make children ask’
what’ that for ?’)
● You can decorate it with
some lesson – related
decoration
● you can built a puppet stage
and perform a short
introductory show either
before enter the room
● You can hang things so the
children have to walk through
something to introduces the
lesson topic.
Think of your doorways as the
entrance to the learning
environment
Floor can be fun of learning
● Drow on them with masking
tape messages on them
Creative Doorways Creative Walls Creative Floors
11. Use of walls in the classroom
What they are learning during the
current period (teaching
unit/quarter). Ideally, there
should be posters made by the
students themselves
What you need your students to
use constantly until they learn it.
For example: the alphabet or
multiplication tables
What they have already learned
or had been learning in past units
Front wall Side walls Back wall
