FIELD LEARNING

STUDY 2
Preparing the Learning
EPISODE
Environment: An Overview
FS 2 3
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 be 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 teacher teaches and children learn. In
the classroom are chairs or tables for students and a front table for the teacher. 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 deliveries changed 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 walls.
 Openness- Learning corners/areas which could be shared.
 Access 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 on-line 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 results but
in different ways, so usually in practice both approaches are combined.
Revisit the Infographics

Face-to-face Learning Environment On-line Learning Environment

-Time is set
- Self-contained classroom discussion - Anytime, anyplace, anywhere
, activities occur inside the room. -Time - Synchronous or asynchronous classes
Passive listening. -Place - Teacher moderates and facilitates
-Teacher prepares instructional - Teacher’s Role learning.
activities and chooses content. -Student’s Role - Creates different learning environment
-Facilitates F2F learning. Leads - Content - Creates the multimedia educational
and guides learners - Evaluation content.
-Learners & teacher engage in Process
Personal communication

Learning environment can be traditional (F2F), virtual (on-line) or a combination

(Hybrid).

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 attendance in virtual class room (i.e. Google Meet or Zoom)

________________________________________________________________________
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 Notice

Learning Environment 1: (If you don’t go to your tutee’s school, base your answers here
on the bulletin board in your room/department/college during the last semester that you had
your face to face class)
 What have you noticed of the display in the class bulletin board? What message or
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?

Learning Environment 2: (Base your answers here on your observations of your tutees.)
 If the teacher is using a distance delivery of learning through the modules, where is
most likely the learning space of the students? _______________________________
 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 1 or Learning Environment 2.
 Explain your choice. Why?
______________________________________________________________________________
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Check for Mastery

Choose the best answer from the options given.

1. Learning environment is only confined to a specific place called schools. This statement
is _____.
A. True
B. False
C. Doubtful
D. Cannot be determined

2. What kind of learning happens anytime, anyplace and anywhere?

A. Traditional learning
B. On-line learning
C. Hybrid learning
D. Face-to-Face learning

3. In which situation can learners learn with more physical presence and intervention of the
teacher?
A. Face-to-Face
B. Virtual
C. On-line
D. All of the above

4. Which of the two kinds of learning environment encourages independence and self-
management of the learners? Why?
A. Face-to-Face, because there is always the presence of the teacher who will give
guidance to the learner.
B. Virtual/On-line, because the learners are given time to learn on their own and
progress at their own rate.
C. Both, because they can always shift from one modality to another.
D. Face-to-Face because there is always the need of a teacher in a classroom all the time.

5. If on-line or virtual learning environment is not applicable, the traditional face-to-face or

in-school will continue. How will you improve the physical learning environment?
A. Use tables with chairs to allow cooperative learning.
B. Provide learning spaces or corners for independent study.
 C. Give credits to success than failures.
D. A, B and C

Work on my Artifacts

In an essay following the introduction-body-conclusion format, write an essay on the

topic: “My Conducive Learning Environment”. You can create your own title for your essay

“ (your own title here) ”

By: ______________________________________