The document discusses how to create a productive learning environment in the classroom. It recommends arranging desks in a way that facilitates interaction and limits distractions. Desk arrangements should also allow the teacher to easily view all students. Lighting and color choices can impact learning, with warmer tones and indirect lighting preferred. Classroom routines and rules help students feel safe and comfortable. Individualizing spaces and adding calming elements, such as lamps, plants, and music, further enhance the classroom environment.
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The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
6. What kind of effect did those things have on your learning and concentration?
7. What kind of effect would those things have on a child, who might have a hard time staying on task anyways?
8. Chapter 14 of Educational Psychology concentrates on creating a productive learning environment, and touches on topics like seating arrangements, colors, temperature, sounds, bulletin boards, and other things in the physical classroom environment that can have an affect on learning.
9. Desk Arrangements It is important to arrange the desks in a way that makes it easy for you, the teacher, to interact with each and every student, to be able to move easily throughout the room, to accommodate students’ personal space, to establish traffic patterns, and to encourage the type of learning that works best for your class (i.e. clusters of desks for group work). The following slide shows several different seating arrangements that work for a variety of situations.
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11. It is also important to minimize possible distractions. This can be done by keeping intriguing materials out of sight and reach, keeping ‘chatty friends’ separate, and arranging the desks so that you can see any student at any time from any position in the classroom. The book suggests to “arrange furniture in ways that encourage student interaction when appropriate and discourage it when counterproductive.”
12. The classroom climate is the overall psychological atmosphere of the classroom and will permeate classroom interactions. We want a classroom in which students feel safe and secure, where learning is a high priority, and where students are willing to take the risks and make the mistakes critical for academic success.
13. The following pictures showcase classrooms in which desk arrangements, color, and lighting are working together in a way that positively effects student learning.
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18. First-grade teacher Allyson Daley is one of the super teachers and classroom interior designers featured in the Scholastic professional book entitled Classroom Management in Photographs (June, 2004).
19. "In setting up my classroom, my goal is to have everything that students need available to them," explains Allyson Daley. "I ask myself: Can they get to the things that they need to get to? This helps push the children toward being in charge of themselves in the classroom and making good decisions.“"Classroom success is all about the routines," she adds. "In my classroom, things are always done the same way. I think that helps kids feel really comfortable and really safe."
20. Lighting One of the most critical physical characteristics of the classroom is lighting (Phillips,1992). The importance of an appropriate visual environment for learning tasks deserves careful consideration. The visual environment affects a learner's ability to perceive visual stimuli and affects his/her mental attitude, and thus, performance.Bowers and Burkett (1987) found that "improper maintenance of fixtures led to lower than average student performance such as misinterpretation of the written word, whether on a handout or at the chalkboard" (p.3). Knirck (1970) maintained that inappropriate illumination levels "abuse the human eye and have unfortunate physiological consequences" (p.10). Mayron, Ott, Nations, and Mayron (1974) discovered that "students achieved better in classrooms with an 85 or more footcandles environment; others achieved less well" (Dunn, 1985, p.866). Classroom lighting plays a particularly critical role because of the direct relationship between good lighting and student's performance (Phillips, 1997). Hathaway and Fielder (1986) found that light is a key to the general well-being of people confined to a physical facility a great portion of the day. Rouner (1982) discovered that "illumination seems to be so important that even seasonal mood changes as strong as depression have been treated successfully merely by increasing the bright light in a person's environment" (Dunn, 1985, p.868).
21. Color Color choices can also impact the teaching/learning process. Sinofsky and Knirck (1981) found that color influences student attitudes, behaviors and learning.Rice (1953) found that paint color in schools especially carefully planned color schemes positively affect academic achievement of elementary students and especially students of kindergarten age. Papadatos (1973) suggested that the proper use of color in schools can convert an atmosphere that is depressing and monotonous into one that is pleasing, exciting and stimulating. He concluded that such change in color schemes in schools would reduce absenteeism and promote positive feelings about schools. Mild colors for walls and floors will minimize glare and brightness contrast between work stations and the surroundings. Tones may be warmer or cooler as climate and orientation may suggest. A stronger color may be used for the front wall with color related to or contrasting with the light green, white, or blue of the marker board. The idea is to get away from an institutional implication (dark green and black boards). Classrooms for young children may use stronger colors, usually in warm tones. Strong tones are not desirable
22. Kari Mabe, a 2nd-grade teacher at Snipes Academy of Art & Design here in Wilmington, says that the physical feature truly makes a difference. She recommends the book Tools for Teaching as a great help in setting up your classroom.Kari mentions that making sure that you have the least amount of steps to reach each child is essential for behavior management and academic success. Her class is divided into five groups of four, and they work well in groups as long as they are skill-based groups.
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24. She turns off the fluorescent lights and has brought in lamps, which make a huge difference
25. Ms. Mabe made one corner of her room ‘Australia’…it is a spot in the room where students can go on ‘vacation’ for a get-away. They can be sent there by the teacher or chose to go themselves, making them feel like they can escape and take control of their environment when they feel overwhelmed, tired, or just want to be alone.
26. She uses vanilla-scented plug-ins around the room as a calming smell and also to rid of any moldy scents that may be lingering in the classroom
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28. Use lighting and color to create a psychological atmosphere conducive to learning