CONCEPTS OF SCHOOL

LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT AND
COMMUNITY LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT
INTRODUCTION:
Learning is a very complex process. There
are many factors that can affect learning of a
child. One of these many factors is Learning
Environment. It is one of the essential
factors that can determine the success of the
students’ learning.
Learning Environment
►Refers to the diverse physical locations,
contexts, and cultures in which students learn.
Since students may learn in a wide variety of
settings, such as outside of school locations and
outdoor environment.
Based on Bransford, Brown, and Cockling (2000),
Learning Environment is designed according to learner-
centered, knowledge-centered, and assessment-centered
within a community.

►Learner Centered- Where the students are able to make

connections of their prior knowledge with the knowledge
that they are learning about. Learning is
based on the students’ needs and styles.
Differentiations of learning is happening
in this learning environment.
►Knowledge-centered- refers to the process of
transferring new knowledge to the students’ deeper
understanding instead of only memorizing is the
emphasize of this learning environment.

►Assessment- centered- focus on checking the

students’ understanding. Ongoing assessment, regular
feedback, and reflection of learning are incorporated
in this learning environment.
 Definition:
School Learning Environment
 Refers to the set of relationships that occur among
members of a school community that determined
by structural, personal, and functional factors of
the educational institution, which provide
distinctiveness to schools.
 This is an important factor when evaluating
student well-being.
Characteristics:
 School Learning Environment is broadly characterized
by its facilities, classrooms, school-based health
support, and disciplinary policies and practices. It set
the stage for the external factors that affects students.
 Flexibility, openness, access to resources, spaces
designed to be adaptable with lots of movable partition
walls- these characteristics give the students’ choice in
how and when they learn.
 Learning-friendly environment motivated by
leadership styles of Principal can often show the
following qualities within the effective school
culture:
 Safety, respect, Student responsibility in
learning, intellectual vigor, ongoing support,
and concern for Students’ welfare.
Dimensions:
Reflect on the impact of the classroom
learning environment on students’ attitude
towards schooling. To the teacher, the
classroom interpersonal relationship is the
vital significant especially, the teacher-
student, and student-student relationships.
Classroom dimension should be:

7m x 9m classroom will used in schools

located in semi-urban areas or in urbanizing
portions of municipalities such as the
población where the classroom to pupil/
student ration is more than 1:45.
Factors that may affect School Learning
Environment
▪Intellectual Factor ▪Attitudes
▪Motivation ▪Beliefs
▪Emotions ▪Values
▪Interests ▪Learning styles
▪Environmental Factors
Environmental Factors like:

1)Relationships
First, learning is about relationships.
Relationships between the teacher and students,
new content and old content and subject matter
content and its application to the real world .
2) Stress
A little bit of stress can be good as the body releases adrenaline
to address it which in turn stimulates our brain to "fire on all
cylinders," if you will.
However, students who are in chronically stressful environments
tend to have lower levels of aptitude, immunity, concentration and
comprehension skills. Why? The young brain (3-20ish years old),
as a result of the overly active amygdala, is especially susceptible
to stress and has extreme responses to it.
3) Sleep
Students need 9-13 hours of sleep per night. Period.
They average 6 hours.
Sleep helps the brain to learn and process new
information. It also aids in cell renewal, sugar
metabolization, neural connections, immunity, logical
reasoning, comprehension and fine motor skills.
 4) Exercise
Experts recommend 2 hours of sweaty exercise per day for the young brain.
According to Dr. John Medina, author of Brain Rules, "The three requirements
for human life are food, drink and oxygen. But their effects on survival have
very different time lines. You can live for about 30 days without food, about 7
days without water. Your brain however, is so active that it cannot go without
oxygen for more than 5 minutes without risking serious and permanent damage.“
He goes on to say, "Exercise does not provide oxygen and food. It provides
greater ACCESS to oxygen and food via stimulated blood vessels...that penetrate
deeper into the tissues of the body. The more you exercise, the more tissues you
can feed and the more toxic waste you can remove. That's why exercise
improves the performance of all functions."
5) Nutrition
Eating healthy foods allows our bodies to function at
the highest level. Processed and sugary foods cause
inflammation that leads to decreased blood flow and
slowed body functions, decreasing concentration and
memory.
 6) Laughter
The brain does not discriminate between fake laughter
and real laughter. Both times, the brain will release four
"happy" chemicals: serotonin, oxytocin, dopamine and
endorphins. These chemicals help our bodies to increase
blood flow, concentration, engagement, memory, T cell
production and immunity. These chemicals also
decrease stress, anxiety, blood pressure, toxins and
muscle tension.
Variables affecting School Learning
Environment
▪School open space and noise ▪Students’ Issues:
▪Inappropriate temperature ●Culture
▪Insufficient light ●Social Class
▪Overcrowded classes ●Gender
▪Misplaced board ●Performance level
▪Inappropriate classroom lay-out ●Learning speed
●Learning style
COMMUNITY LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
 Refers to a wide variety of instructional methods and
programs that Educators use to connect what is being
taught in school to their surrounding communities,
including local institutions, history, literature, cultural
heritage, and natural environment.
 It also motivated by the belief that all communities have
intrinsic educational assets and resources that educator
can use to enhance learning experiences for students.
Learning Communities
Provide a space and a structure for people to align around a
shared goal. Effective communities are both aspirational and
practical. They connect people, organizations, and systems
that are eager to learn and work across boundaries, all the
while holding members accountable to a common agenda,
metrics, and outcomes. These communities enable
participants to share results and learn from each other,
thereby improving their ability to achieve rapid yet
significant progress.
 
What does a learning community do?
Jessica Sager, Co-Founder and Executive Director of All Our Kin, shares the benefits of participating in FOI and its
learning community.

It connects people. Learning communities convene

change agents across sectors, disciplines, and geographies
to connect, share ideas and results, and learn from each
other. Communities may work together in-person and
virtually.
 
It sets goals and measures collective progress. These
communities align participants around common goals,
metrics (ways of measuring achievement), theories of
change, and areas of practice.
 
It enables shared learning. Communities share learning
from both successful and unsuccessful experiences to
deepen collective knowledge.
It supports distributed leadership. The scope of a
learning community allows it to offer a wide range of
leadership roles and skill-building opportunities.

It accelerates progress toward impact at scale. These

communities facilitate fast-cycle learning, measure results
to understand what works for whom, and bring together
the key stakeholders who can achieve systems-level
change.
 
 
Importance of Learning Community
Achieving widespread change in the early childhood field
requires tackling an interrelated set of complex social problems. To
solve these problems, the field needs a strong community of learning
and practice that will work to identify multiple intervention
strategies for different groups of children and families. Rather than
replicate “successful” programs in different contexts — where they
may or may not achieve the same results — learning communities
share results and metrics to figure out what works best for whom
and why.  This approach provides a highly targeted and effective
way to achieve impact at scale.
The end…

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