How the Environment Plays a Role in Learning

1198 words 5 pages
Show More
How the Environment Plays A Role In Learning

Learning is an important skill that is essential for everyone to succeed in life which includes school, work and our community. By being able to learn we are able to obtain basic knowledge, develop skills and abilities. Whether the environment that we are in is stressful, combative or stress free; the tiniest thing in our environment is important to how we are able to learn. The environment that we are in as children and adults can affect our learning dramatically as well as shape our identities. Although we all know that the environment around us does play a vital part in learning, we all do not know how it fully affects us. It is not hard to believe that the environment has an …show more content…

Being in Iraq, I have experienced some of the interesting things that this country has to offer. By being in multiple sand storms and seeing different animals, it makes me want to research why sandstorms occur, why the rain over here is muddy and why the camel spiders out here are enormous to the regular spiders that we have in the US. It is a stressful environment but an educational environment as well. In a research done by the (Jago) it has revealed that the thermal of an environment in the classroom will affect a student’s ability to learn. (Herrington, 1952) has found that temperatures above 80 degrees can affect a persons ability to learn as well as produce harmful effects that decrease working efficiently. Air conditioning used to be considered a luxury to have in school but (Canter, 1976) has found that we will work more efficiently is the environment we were in was at a comfortable temperature. When anyone is in a hot classroom or setting, fatigue sets in and it gets harder to concentrate. If we were in an environment that had a comfortable temperature we will be able to focus more on what is needed to be done. (McDonald, 1960) found that if classrooms had air conditioning it not only improved the students work efficiency but, it also improved the teachers’ attitudes and work patterns since teachers’ would be experiencing less fatigue. We all had thought

Related

  • Promote Creativity and Creative Learning in Young Children
    3424 words | 14 pages

    Unit 082 - Promote creativity and creative learning in young children Assessment criteria Understand the concepts of creativity and creative learning and how these affect all aspects of young children’s learning and development. 1.1 Analyze the differences between creative learning and creativity. 1.2 Explain current theoretical approaches to creativity and creative learning in early childhood. 1.3 Critically analyze how creativity and creative learning can support young children’s emotional, social….

    Show More
  • E100 Tma04
    3116 words | 13 pages

    Supporting children’s learning environment Part 1 E100 Ethical Statement I confirm that in this assignment I have only used material drawn from the setting identified on my employers Permission Agreement Form. In this assignment I have adhered to the E100 ethical guidance by: • Changing all names within the assignment (the setting, children, parents and colleagues) so that the individuals cannot be identified. • Sending out a letter informing parents about my studies and….

    Show More
  • The Creative Curriculum
    2335 words | 10 pages

    Gardner III. How children learn and develop A.) Areas of development 1.) Social/Emotional 2.) Physical 3.) Cognitive 4.) Language B.) Individual differences IIII. The learning environment A.) Setting and maintaining the classroom B.) Establishing a structure for each day C.) Creating a classroom community V. What the children learn A.) Literacy (Reading) B.) Math C.) Science (Discovery) D.) The Arts (Art, Dance, Dramatic play, Music) VI. Teacher's role VII.….

    Show More
  • Unit Eymp 1 Context and Principles for Early Years Provision
    1555 words | 7 pages

    EYMP1 A2: Different approaches Indentify four different approaches to working with children and record these in the table below. Explain how each approach has influenced current early year’s provision in the UK Approaches to working with children and how has this influenced current early years provision in the UK? There are four different approaches to working with children • Reggio Emilia • High/Scope • Montessori • Steiner….

    Show More
  • Cypop 7
    1064 words | 5 pages

    CYPOP 7 – Promote creativity and creative learning in young children 1.1 – Analyse the differences between creative learning and creativity Creative learning is about how children are actively involved in their own learning and their ability to make choices and decisions. This can be achieved by providing a creative environment, allowing exploration through play and praising the child’s creative efforts. Creative learning is about helping children develop imaginative thinking through exploration….

    Show More
  • Training and Development
    1564 words | 7 pages

    Per your text, describe the forces affecting the workplace and learning. How can training help companies deal with these forces? Customer service, employee retention and growth, doing more with less, quality and productivity are some of the issues affecting company’s ability to implement new training and learning tools. Training is a necessity if companies want to maintain competitive. There are several forces that affect learning in the workplace including: globalization, business strategy,….

    Show More
  • K3D210- How Current Theories of Play Can Inform Practice
    1948 words | 8 pages

    K3D210- How current theories of play can inform practice There are many theories into how children develop and how they learn. These are extremely important as they can be applied to modern strategies used for child behaviours. Presently, learning theories are placed into 3 categories: Behaviourist approaches – children learn as a result of what they see and what happens to them. Constructivist approaches – children learn actively rather than passively. Information processing- children learn….

    Show More
  • Explain How Children and Young People’s Development Is Influenced by a Range of Personal and External Factors. 2.1 and 2.2
    2844 words | 12 pages

    Cypc 31.2 task2 Explain how children and young people’s development is influenced by a range of personal and external factors. 2.1 And 2.2 Personal Factors * During pregnancy-: If the mother smokes ,takes drugs, becomes ill or suffers from stress or anxiety this can result in premature birth and health problems for the baby such as -: low birth weight, undeveloped organs, problems with sight and hearing. These are all problems that could delay their development. Some children are born with….

    Show More
  • Transition from Early Years
    3131 words | 13 pages

    children’s learning, considering the curriculum for the Early Years and the curriculum for the Early Years Foundation Stage/Key Stage One. I propose to outline a rationale for effectively continuing children’s learning, from the end of the Early Years Foundation Stage into Year One and include strategies to support transitions, effective curriculum delivery and links between the EYFS and the National Curriculum. Throughout the assignment I will refer not only in general but also to how my research….

    Show More
  • Early Years Education
    10881 words | 44 pages

    Health and Social Care Unit 16 Age Range: 6-8 years Contents Page Introduction on early years education Page 3 Types of learning Page 6 Techniques of learning Page 7 Assessments Every child matters Page 9 Birth to three Page 10 Foundation Stage Page 12 National Curriculum Page 14 Topic 1 Page 18 Evaluation Page 24 Topic 2 Page 27 Evaluation Page 33 Theorists and theories Page 36 Bibliography Page 40 Appendix Page 41 Early….

    Show More

Popular Essays