Learning Environment

Discussion focuses on:

 What does learning

environment consist of?
 When is learning environment
facilitative?
What is Learning
Environment?
“ To heredity, the Child
owes his possibilities.
However, to
environment, he owes
the realization of these
possibilities.”
Definition
The Learning Environment can
refer to an educational
approach, cultural context, or
physical setting in which
teaching and learning occur.
The Learning Environment
consists of the physical
environment as well as the
psychological Climate.
Physical Environment
* the physical condition of the
classroom.
Charts and
Bulletin
* Furniture Arrangement
* Seating Arrangement
*Lighting and Ventilation
 Everyone Should have an
Opportunity to learn in a
positive environment, to
enjoy the Learning Process,
and feel comfortable and
content within it.
Barry Saide
Psychological Climate

*Safety
*Relationship
*Teaching and Learning
Learners who feel secure and
relatively free from worry and
anxiety feel comfortable and
protected are more willing to take
risk, enter new situation with
confidence and are better in
focussing their energy on the task
at the hand
 Facilitative learning
environment
* Which Encourages people to be
active.
* Which promotes and facilitates the
individual’s discovery of the personal
meaning of idea.
* Which emphasizes the uniquely
personal and subjective nature of
learning.
* In which difference is good and
desirable.
* Which consistently recognizes
people’s right to make mistakes.
* Which tolerates ambiguity.
* In which evaluation is a cooperative
process with emphasis on self-
evaluation.
* Which encourages openness of self
rather than concealment of self.
* In which people are encouraged to
trust in themselves as well as in external
sources.
*In which people feel they are respected.
* In which people feel they are accepted.
* Which permits confrontation.
* Provides conductive learning
environment necessary in the full
development of the cognitive and
appetitive faculties of the learner.
 A great classroom
environment comes
from the heart, not
from the wallet. It’s
built on love, laugher,
and feeling that
everyone belongs.