Location
Daytona Beach, Florida
Description
This paper is not about the physical classroom, but about adult students approaching the difficult work that is learning. It is not about the classroom conditions schools provide, but about the actions teachers take that define the classroom learning environment.
Where there was once only the traditional classroom with chalkboards, tables and chairs, there are now two new learning environments: the upgraded classroom environment and the distance learning environment. The paper is primarily concerned with teaching in the modern classroom and creating a proper learning environment for students who come to class for long evening sessions or all-day weekend sessions, and who come from the ongoing postmodern culture in which entertainment seems to be omnipresent
In searching for the proper classroom learning environment, teachers usually find that the challenges lie not so much in optimizing the physical learning environment, but in how to shape the emotional learning environment that determines how students feel and think, or more importantly, how well teachers influence how students feel and think. Creating a proper learning environment hinges on how teachers develop relationships that make students want to come to class, pay attention, participate and seek to understand the knowledge that is available. There are many obstacles to this endeavor.
Maximizing the Student Learning Environment: A Positive Learning Environment for Evening and Weekend Students
Daytona Beach, Florida
This paper is not about the physical classroom, but about adult students approaching the difficult work that is learning. It is not about the classroom conditions schools provide, but about the actions teachers take that define the classroom learning environment.
Where there was once only the traditional classroom with chalkboards, tables and chairs, there are now two new learning environments: the upgraded classroom environment and the distance learning environment. The paper is primarily concerned with teaching in the modern classroom and creating a proper learning environment for students who come to class for long evening sessions or all-day weekend sessions, and who come from the ongoing postmodern culture in which entertainment seems to be omnipresent
In searching for the proper classroom learning environment, teachers usually find that the challenges lie not so much in optimizing the physical learning environment, but in how to shape the emotional learning environment that determines how students feel and think, or more importantly, how well teachers influence how students feel and think. Creating a proper learning environment hinges on how teachers develop relationships that make students want to come to class, pay attention, participate and seek to understand the knowledge that is available. There are many obstacles to this endeavor.