How the Environment Effects Learning
How the Environment Effects Learning
Deana Martz
COLL 100
APU
Professor Runyon
How the Environment Effects Learning
Everyone learns in different ways, therefore, everyone has a different learning style. Distinguishing between all different types of learning styles and learning environments can be detrimental to a person’s ability to learn. Once a person understands how the environment effects how they learn then accommodations can be made and effective learning can progress. Knowing what a learning environment is the first thing to understand. Learning Environment is defined as being the physical or virtual location in which learning takes place. That being said there can be many different types of learning environments. Classroom learning environment is the most popular in younger children and it falls upon the teacher to provide an effective learning environment. Home schooling learning environments is at a rise with many new home schooling programs available online. Making a home an effective learning environment will fall onto a child’s parent(s) or the student themselves depending on age. Knowing how these learning environments effect learning in general is crucial. Creating an effective learning environment is all up to the person in control of the environment. It’s important to create and manage an effective environment. Everything a teacher (or person in charge of the learning environment being used) does creates classroom management, including forming the venue, how they speak to whomever is being taught and how they handle their responses, putting practices in position, creating rules, and teaching those rules to the learning. Classroom management can be described as having all of these characteristics. Reducing any type of problems in the learning environment is critical to learning. These can come in many forms. For example if a person’s learning environment is their home because they are an online student they would
Deana Martz
COLL 100
APU
Professor Runyon
How the Environment Effects Learning
Everyone learns in different ways, therefore, everyone has a different learning style. Distinguishing between all different types of learning styles and learning environments can be detrimental to a person’s ability to learn. Once a person understands how the environment effects how they learn then accommodations can be made and effective learning can progress. Knowing what a learning environment is the first thing to understand. Learning Environment is defined as being the physical or virtual location in which learning takes place. That being said there can be many different types of learning environments. Classroom learning environment is the most popular in younger children and it falls upon the teacher to provide an effective learning environment. Home schooling learning environments is at a rise with many new home schooling programs available online. Making a home an effective learning environment will fall onto a child’s parent(s) or the student themselves depending on age. Knowing how these learning environments effect learning in general is crucial. Creating an effective learning environment is all up to the person in control of the environment. It’s important to create and manage an effective environment. Everything a teacher (or person in charge of the learning environment being used) does creates classroom management, including forming the venue, how they speak to whomever is being taught and how they handle their responses, putting practices in position, creating rules, and teaching those rules to the learning. Classroom management can be described as having all of these characteristics. Reducing any type of problems in the learning environment is critical to learning. These can come in many forms. For example if a person’s learning environment is their home because they are an online student they would
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