PREPARING THE
LEARNING
5 ENVIRONMENT: AN
OVERVIEW
To have a meaningful and successful accomplishment in this FS episode, be
sure to read through the whole episode before participating and assisting in your FS 2
Resource Teacher’s class. Note all the information you will need and tasks you will
need to do before working on this episode.
Target Your Intended Learning Outcomes
At the end of this Learning Episode, I must able to:
Revisit the concept of learning environment in the context of the current
teaching and learning situation.
Clarify Your Task
Overview of the Learning Environment
A learning environment, traditionally called the classroom, is a space in a school
that supports student learning. It is a self-contained area where the teacher teaches
and children learn. In the classroom are chairs or tables for students and a front table
for the teachers. This is a traditional face-to-face classroom. Most often the students
should face the teacher as the chairs are arranged that way. But as teaching delivers
change to enhance learning, modification in the seating arrangement evolved and more
opportunity for the learners to move about for cooperative learning was addressed.
A conducive learning environment should have the following characteristics:
Flexibility – there is opportunity to have small groups, movable wall.
Openness – learning corners/areas which could be shared.
Accesses to resources – audio-visual materials are ready and open for use.
Physical classroom – space is clean and safe.
Psychological atmosphere – it is friendly and accommodating.
The classroom climate nurtures the intellectual, physical, social, and emotional
development of the students.
Here are some specific strategies for developing the optimal classroom climate.
You may consider these.
1. Learning environment addresses both physical and psychological needs of the
students for security and order, love and belonging, personal power and competence,
freedom and fun.
2. Create a sense of order. For example, teacher should teach students how to
• Enter the classroom and become immediately engaged in the activity;
• Distribute and collect materials;
• Find out about missed assignments due to absence and how to make up for
them;
• Get the teacher’s attention without disrupting the class and
• Arrange desks, tables quickly and quietly for various purposes.
3. Greet learners as they enter your face-to-face or online classroom.
4. In a healthy and conducive learning environment, everybody belongs and knows
each other.
5. Encourage class building activities like games and team activities.
6. In a conducive learning environment, success whether small or big is
recognized, and celebrated.
Both approaches, either the traditional face-to-face or online, lead to positive
result but in different ways, so usually in practice both approaches are combined.
Revisit the Infographic/s
Face-to-face Learning On-line Learning
Environment Environment
• Time is set.
• Self-contained
classroom • Anytime, anyplace,
Discussion, activities anywhere
• Time
occur inside the room. • Synchronous or
• Place
Passive listening asynchronous classes.
• Teacher’s
• Teacher moderates
• Teacher prepares Role
instructional activities and facilitate learning.
• Student’s Role
• Creates different
and chooses content.
• Content learning environment
• Facilitates F2F
• Evaluation • Creates the multimedia
learning. Leads and
guides learners
• Process educational content.
• Learners & teachers
engage in personal
communication.
Learning environment can be traditional (F2F), virtual (on-line) or a combination
(Hybrid).
Participate and Assist
You are now ready to participate and assist!
What will you do to assist your mentor in setting up a conducive learning
environment in the following conditions:
1. Bulletin Board Display_______________________________________________
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2. Small Group Discussion _____________________________________________
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3. Checking class attendance in a virtual classroom (i.e. google meet or zoom)\
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Notice
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT 1:
• What have you noticed of the display in the class bulletin board? What
message of theme does it convey?
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• What makes it attractive to the learners?
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• Does it help in the learning process? _____ How? ______________________
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LEARNING ENVIRONMENT 2:
• If the teacher is using a distance delivery of learning through the modules,
where is most likely the learning space of the students?
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• Can you describe? ______________________________________________
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• How can you as a teacher help to make such environment conducive for
learning? ______________________________________________________
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Analyze
The examples above, describe two contrasting situations. The first shows that
the learners are in the same room or space while in the second, the learners maybe in
different learning spaces like homes, study hubs or in extreme cases parks or under the
trees.
As a teacher, in which of the two situations would you prefer to manage for
learning? Choose between Learning environment 1or Learning Environment 2.
Explain your choice: Why? ___________________________________________
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Reflect
Based on my noticing and analysis, I realized that
a. ________________________________________________________________
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b. ________________________________________________________________
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c. ________________________________________________________________
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Write Action Research Prompts
Using any one example of problems in this activity, answer the AR prompts that
follow:
OBSERVE
What probable problem may result from the two situations of the learning environment?
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REFLECT
What solutions can I think of to solve the problem?
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PLAN
How should I do it?
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Work on my Artifacts
In not less than 300 words, write an essay on the topic: “My Conducive Learning
Environment”.
“My Conducive Learning Environment”
by: ______________________________________
Proof of Class Observation
