The document discusses the characteristics of an effective learning environment in schools. It states that schools should provide a rich learning environment that is open, respectful, caring, and safe for students. This optimal environment promotes student wellbeing and reflects a positive school culture. Schools develop this environment by ensuring individual differences are acknowledged, decision-making includes students, consistent rules are collaboratively developed and enforced, and pastoral care and staff wellbeing are supported. The document also lists 10 characteristics of a highly effective learning environment, including valuing questions over answers, ideas coming from diverse sources, using varied learning models, and connecting classroom learning to the community.

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13. School
as
Learning Environment

14. > The core business of
schools is to provide
students with a rich
learning environment that
is
Open,Respectful,Caring and safe.

15. > This ideal learning
environment optimises
wellbeing. It reflects a
positive school ethos that
makes the school an exciting,
stimulating and welcoming
place.

16. Schools do this by:
• developing and
communicating an explicit
commitment to wellbeing
•acknowledging individual
differences and providing
opportunities for all
students to learn and succeed

17. •ensuring students have
opportunities to participate
in school decision-making
processes
• applying consistent school-wide
rules and consequences
that are:

18. *collaboratively developedwith students and the broader school
community
*clearly explained
* positively enforced
*rewarding of goodbehaviour
* providingpastoral care for students
* maintaining a physical space, includingcyber environmentthat
maximises staff and student safety
* supportingstaff wellbeing.

19. 10 Characteristics Of A
Highly Effective
Learning Environment

20. 2. Questions are valued over
answers

21. 3. Ideas come from a
divergent sources
4. A variety of learning
models are used

22. 5. Classroom learning
“empties” into a connected
community
6. Learning is personalized by a
variety of criteria

23. 7. Assessment is persistent,
authentic, transparent, and
never punitive
8. Criteria for success is
balanced and transparent.

24. 9. Learning habits are
constantly modeled
10. There are constant
opportunities for practice

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