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Handouts – Unit 3 Learner-Centered Environment Unit 1.B. Learner–Centered Psychological Principles Learning Outcomes: After the studying t...

Handouts – Unit 3 Learner-Centered Environment Unit 1.B. Learner–Centered Psychological Principles Learning Outcomes: After the studying the materials, you should be able to: 1. Describe a learner-centered environment that promote fairness, respect and care to encourage learning; 2. Plan and design a learning space indicating flexibility in accommodating learners’ needs; and 3. Craft a Personal Plan of your perceived ideal learner-centered environment PRIMING The Classroom Climate The Classroom Climate is a psychological, social, cognitive, emotional and physical environment where learners acquire knowledge and skills through interaction between and among the teacher and the learners. It is influenced by the psychological environment and the physical setting. Facilitating learning can effectively take place when learners feel secured and not threatened. This is ensured when the teacher creates a positive atmosphere. Study the succeeding facts sheet, article and blog related to creating a conducive classroom climate. Determine how you can create an ideal climate that establishes a learner-centered environment and be able to answer the given task as directed. I have placed the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the materials I would like you to read. However, for those who may have weak or no internet connectivity, I placed the images of these blogs and articles so you can easily read them. Credit goes to the respective authors and I do hope you learn well just as I how I have learned so much on how they try to create an environment that is learner-centered. https://www.educationcorner.com/developing-a-student-centered-classroom.html Developing a Student-centered Classroom by Becton Loveless https://www.gettingsmart.com/2017/08/8-things-look-student-centered-learning-environment/8 Things to Look For in a Student-Centered Learning Environment By Emily Liebtag August 9, 2017 http://lighthouse.bcps.org/learner-centered-environments.html Learner-Centered Environments ED 204 – Facilitating the Learner-Centered Teaching 1  Handouts – Unit 3 Learner-Centered Environment DEEPENING The first material is a blog by Becton Loveless. The blog discusses how the environment can become a welcoming place for learners making them feel accepted for whoever or whatever they have. It is a place where their space is respected and they feel valued and recognized for their unique personhood. ED 204 – Facilitating the Learner-Centered Teaching 2  Handouts – Unit 3 Learner-Centered Environment ED 204 – Facilitating the Learner-Centered Teaching 3  Handouts – Unit 3 Learner-Centered Environment ED 204 – Facilitating the Learner-Centered Teaching 4  Handouts – Unit 3 Learner-Centered Environment ED 204 – Facilitating the Learner-Centered Teaching 5  Handouts – Unit 3 Learner-Centered Environment ED 204 – Facilitating the Learner-Centered Teaching 6  Handouts – Unit 3 Learner-Centered Environment ED 204 – Facilitating the Learner-Centered Teaching 7  Handouts – Unit 3 Learner-Centered Environment This next site is very informative. It contains videos and images of learning spaces that address the needs of learners. ED 204 – Facilitating the Learner-Centered Teaching 8  Handouts – Unit 3 Learner-Centered Environment PRIMING The Physical Classroom as a Learning Space When you visit a classroom in most of the schools around, you can see a set-up that looks like the one in Image A. Perhaps, like me, you may have been in a classroom that is arranged in a manner like this. Image A Compare this with the classroom arrangements that are shown in the succeeding images. Image B Image C ED 204 – Facilitating the Learner-Centered Teaching 9  Handouts – Unit 3 Learner-Centered Environment What are your observations? Why are these classrooms arranged is such ways? ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ DEEPENING Classroom climate does not only refer to the emotional and psychological environment but also to the physical environment. We are usually affected by the physical condition around us. In this context, we can learn more efficiently when we are in a place that is clean, pleasant and conducive to study. A learning space should have the right amount of furniture, chairs, cabinets, bulletin boards among others that are arranged in such a way that there is ease in mobility and allows interaction among the learners. The teacher can see everybody and that the learners can likewise see the blackboard or a focal instruction point when needed. The area should have enough lighting, it has to be well-ventilated, safe and clean. It is advisable that every learner is assigned a work space and seating arrangement is flexible so that it is easy for them to work in groups. Based on minimum standards issued by DepED, the size of the classroom for elementary and secondary schools must be 7.0 meters in width/depth x 9.00 meters in length or 9.00 meters in width/depth x 7.00 meters in length measured from the centers of the walls. An image of the perspective of a DepED Building ED 204 – Facilitating the Learner-Centered Teaching 10  Handouts – Unit 3 Learner-Centered Environment I would like to suggest some ideas that may excite you in designing your own learning space plan. Accompanying this material is a powerpoint presentation containing five principles that you can consider when planning and designing your 21 st-century classroom. Look for the powerpoint presentation (in pdf) and study it. I have also placed some interesting classroom designs that allow flexibility inside the classroom. The Virtual Classroom – An Alternative Learning Space With COVID-19 pandemic that affected our human engagements inside a physical classroom, there is another place called the Virtual Classroom. This has become an alternative learning space. At present, we are all experiencing a mediated way of communicating because the institution opted to give prime importance to our safety and health. The set-up of remote learning is not new at WVSU because we initiated a Distance Education Program since 2004. Initially it was through the modular mode which in fact is still being used as the label of the offerings. However, this was converted into an online flexible learning mode. The University Distance Education Program (UDEP) offers programs for graduate and post- baccalaureate levels. The virtual classroom poses a challenge on how it is managed. The teacher called the online tutor has to possess certain technological skills and discourse competence to be able to effectively navigate through the learning management system while guiding and engaging the course participants in learning. Although the demand to learn is given to the learner, just like in your case, the online tutor has to ensure that he facilitates learning effectively despite the mediation and remote distance. It is no excuse for the online tutor to just leave everything to the learner. Engagement and monitoring of learning have to be done in a virtual classroom. In fact much more effort is required when you facilitate learning in a distance mode because learning is mediated and usually reaction or feedback is a bit delayed. So one’s presence has to be evident. This is called Social Presence in a distance class or remote learning. Social Presence is defined as the degree of an individual to feel connected with classmates and teacher in an online community. Like in the physical classroom, the virtual classroom should also have an atmosphere that is supportive of the needs of the learners. Sung and Mayer (2012) in their article Five Facets of Social Presence in Online Learning stated that social respect (e.g. giving timely responses), social sharing (sharing information or expressing beliefs which makes the learners understand that you are reading their work and reacting to their ideas), an open mind (e.g. establishing a welcoming feeling as you provide encouraging feedback), social identity (e.g. being called by name) and intimacy (e.g. sharing personal experiences and creating an atmosphere that you are a co-learner) can have a positive effect on establishing a classroom climate conducive for remote learning. ED 204 – Facilitating the Learner-Centered Teaching 11  Handouts – Unit 3 Learner-Centered Environment I would like you to study the infographics entitled, How to Humanize Your Online Class. Write your answers to the following trigger questions: What are your takeaways by reading the material? How can you make you presence felt if ever you will handle remote learning? What classroom policy will you make so your learners will be oriented on what they should expect from you as their teacher? _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ ED 204 – Facilitating the Learner-Centered Teaching 12  Handouts – Unit 3 Learner-Centered Environment ED 204 – Facilitating the Learner-Centered Teaching 13  Handouts – Unit 3 Learner-Centered Environment References Lucas, R. and Corpus, B. (2014). Facilitating learning: A metacognitive approach. 4 th edition. Lorimar Publishing Inc., Philippines SEAMEO INNOTECH GURO 21 Facilitating 21st Century Learning retrieved from: http://iflex.innotech.org/GURO21/Module2/index.html Suggested materials (blogs, vblogs, sites, OERs, among others) for you to use as reference: Sung & Mayer (2012) Five facets of social presence in online distance education. Volume 28, Issue 5 Computer in Human Behavior, Elsevier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2012.04.014 https://www.educationcorner.com/developing-a-student-centered-classroom.html Developing a Student-centered Classroom by Becton Loveless https://www.gettingsmart.com/2017/08/8-things-look-student-centered-learning- environment/8 Things to Look For in a Student-Centered Learning EnvironmentBy Emily Liebtag August 9, 2017 http://lighthouse.bcps.org/learner-centered-environments.html Learner-Centered Environments https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-and-learning/five-ways-to-teach-students- to-be-learning-centered-too/ FiveWaystoTeachStudentstoBeLearningCentered,Too November 28, 2018 Carl S. Moore, PhD https://www.wevideo.com/blog/for-schools/why-is-the-teachers-role-so-important-in- creating-a-student-centered-classroom Why is the teacher's role so important in creating a student-centered classroom? August 9, 2018 / By Dr. Nathan Lang-Raad Visualizing 21st-Century Classroom Design Retrieved from https://www.edutopia.org/blog/visualizing-21st-century-classroom-design- mary-wade ED 204 – Facilitating the Learner-Centered Teaching 14