The very first environment of creating you and me, a mother’s womb is a room of dark light where the eyes can see only love; the ears can hear only care and the physic can feel only the affection. The environment that is fully focused on the growth of its embryo. The environment which brings out the child with a clean page of mind, an empty container of heart and a serene noble soul.
Everything gets filled and changed from the time it comes out to its next environment. For a child born with a silver spoon, gold and diamonds may look cheaper. Whereas, for a child born in a hut, even a single penny costs greater worth for its life. Thus environment matters a lot!
The environment is the silent teacher from whom the child intakes a lot for its mind and a lot more for its heart. Turning towards the main point, the environment provided to every child’s learning, makes half the concept of the lesson learned, without looking into the book or even without listening to a teacher’s lecture. This page of the website is written to build many best environments to make a child’s learning healthy.
Effects of Environment
Assume a story of a healthy and hygienic man, who works very smart and completely cares for his physical goodness, despite his busy schedule, by having a regular intake of good nutrients.
One fine day he was given a project in a faraway place, staying there for about 10 days. The place was not so clean and tidy and the man felt uncomfortable with his new place. He was also not that enthusiastic in his work as he was in his previous place.
The work was the same in both the places. The work time was the same in both the places. Even the man was the same, who was defined as healthy and active in the first place, whereas sick and tired in the second place.
Just the cleanliness of his new surrounding had affected not only his work but also his health. It is clear that ‘Environment’ has something to do with everything.
If the change of an environment can affect the work done, definitely the change of an environment can make the work effective too!
What Does the Learning Environment Has to do with Learning?
‘Learning is a process that is oriented with the mind of a person; confined according to the heart of a person; designed to create a refined soul.’
One can complete a work within the allotted time and with the expected structure, only by mixing up the enthusiasm of his mind, heart, and soul together. The above said saying reveals that learning is a picture of the wall built only by the mind, heart, and soul of a person.
But the truth is that learning also depends upon the building structure of the wall, which means the environment provided for the learner to support his learning.
You cannot make the learner learn unless he is given a good ambiance. His surrounding where he chooses to learn must be so comfortable that he does his learning with a love to achieve something.
‘Learning is not a phenomenon of remembering the memorized to recall in the future. Learning is the tool of every man to be carried throughout their life exercising their practical knowledge.
Like these, thousands of definitions can be given for the term ‘learning’, still, all the thousands cannot be defined without the behavior of the learner, which totally relies on environment provided to him. Thus the learning environment surely has something to do with the learning.
Learning Environment of the Learner
Learning begins from the birth and continues till the death. A common fact is that learning is an exercise done in his/her school or college. Most profoundly the school learning is the most important system which lays a strong foundation for future learning.
During the schooling, a child has two particular environments to do his learning. They are:
- SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT
- HOME ENVIRONMENT
The school environment is created by the management and the teachers. The home environment is created by the people at home. Now let us see some inspiring thoughts to create some of the best learners’ environment both in the school and at home.
SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT
‘Make the second home a sweeter home’. If these words are true to your institute, then the following is possible inside your compound.
1. Spacious Environment
‘Let… learning to be vast; never confine within a few walls’.
A school must have a spacious area to instill a thought into the students’ mind that they have a wide role to be played in their life and achieve something great.
2. Natural Environment
‘Nature… a teacher in the form of a living picture’.
The school must have a good number of green grasses and plants to make the students feel that they are supreme among nature and has the responsibility of taking care of nature. Not only that, they too would feel fresh as the fresh breeze moving around the campus keeping their enthusiasm alive always.
3. Clean Environment
‘Clean surrounding will lead to clean thoughts’.
The campus must keep up the cleanliness always including a healthy washroom facility. The students too must be taught to maintain its cleanliness as a personal responsibility.
The students must be encouraged to come with neat and tidy uniforms as it can help the child feel smart and do smarter works. If possible the building can have a big mirror somewhere with the words “Am I looking smarter?”.
4. Safety Environment
‘This world is dangerous sometimes… so Safety is a must always’.
The school could provide a comfortable travel facility to reach the school so as to make the children feel a safe journey. And also a campus under CCTV would be best suited where the parents would feel their child in a secure environment and it would be greater help for the management to have the campus under its control.
5. Modern Environment
‘Modernism is vital from a baby’s lullabies to a granny’s earpiece’.
A teaching provided for the modern kids must always have the latest technology methods to bring up the current generation. They are children born in the ‘World of Computer’, so you are sure to need a mouse to monitor their minds and a keyboard to function their knowledge.
6. Teacher Environment
‘Teachers are the talking books of a classroom’.
A teacher has to be best to the core. Children learn not the facts of the world but to cope up with the world. Only a teacher with immense knowledge and dedication can match this task.
Therefore, the management has to interview a candidate under three main aspects: Language, Knowledge, and Efficiency, which would guide you to decide on selecting the best teaching faculty to your institute.
7. Classroom Environment
‘Get in the classroom to give the Humanity, a valuable Human! Walk in the classroom to make your footsteps a legacy to the world’.
When compared to other environments one can wholeheartedly trust a classroom environment to make the child inspire and learn better.
A classroom is where the children tend to imagine what they learn into reality. A classroom can change the toughest into tenderness and the tenderness into toughest.
So it has to be comfortable by all means to make the children love to enter the classroom. The class teacher being the leaner’s engineer of the classroom, the below benefits would be helpful for him/her to draw the train into a creative track.
a. Seating Arrangements
‘Every bench of a classroom is the first throne of all tiny prince and princess who will rule the future’.
Let the seating arrangements be satisfied by every child of the classroom that every place is comfortable to view the board and to observe the teaching. Prefer to place those children who suffer from improper eyesight and distracted ones in the first bench to help them follow the teaching better.
b. Classroom Arrangements
‘Classroom is the miniature of the entire world’.
Makeover the classroom set up very creative so that the children love their classroom better than their home. Let there be a lot of challenges in and around the classroom to provide the children the task that increases their curiosity.
In order to avoid monotonous mood of the classroom keeps changing the classroom arrangements once a month.
c. Display Inspiring Quotes
‘Words are given special quotation marks, for a different thinking to our mind and to add a new meaning to our life’.
Paint the walls of the classroom with some wonderful wordings written on a chart piece that could attract the eyes of every child in the classroom to create a masterpiece into their mind by trying to follow those words.
The teacher could also easily inspire the children with valuable thoughts on the top of the blackboard, which will be always at their focus throughout the day. If not many at least few if not all the time at least sometimes, some words will make a difference through your efforts.
d. A Teacher’s Presence
‘Never a blackboard, never a textbook, never a smart board, never ever a classroom can be full-fledged without a Teacher’s presence’.
A seed buried under the mud will start coming up as the water poured stay around. Similarly, a teacher’s presence around the children is like watering a seed for it to nurture.
A teacher’s presence is always necessary, even if there are no activities taking place in the class. Let the air around the classroom take your presence to your children to pat them on their shoulder to show your concern.
Let the words from your experience surround the ears of your children to help them fall into your line; let the fine actions of yours cover up their eyesight, for them to make you as a role model.
Be an admiration for them! Be a hero in their life story. This will bring invisible change within every child to shine in their learning.
e. A Teacher’s Teaching
‘A Teacher’s Teaching is like a painting on a wet cement pack; it is difficult to erase and hard to break’.
A learner under your teaching will blindly trust all the facts you teach, no matter whether it is right or wrong. So be prudent in your teaching; be confident with your concepts; be louder in your voice; be creative in your presentation and be more cautious about the concentration of all the children in the class. This will help them attain a personal motive to learn their lessons.
f. Teaching Aids for Teaching
‘In a Materialized world materials matters a lot’.
Teaching aids are those that add spices to the concept of the lesson. The teachers can tend to create an artificial environment in relation to the lesson to make their teaching more effective.
It will be easy for the learners to understand the concept and affix a strong foundation into their brains. No doubt a drastic change within every child will happen surely and surprisingly they will love schooling like anything and learning will automatically become better.
HOME ENVIRONMENT
‘Home is the world for every growing up child; it must teach the best to outcome better’.
Home is a house built with love by good hearts living in it. Though learning is just a single part of schedules at home, the child studying at home must be provided a justifying environment to focus on its educational goal.
Learning in the school alone cannot work wonders. Learning at home is important too. People at home can help under the following points to create a good learning environment for a better progress of a child.
Parents’ love and affection: ‘A mother’s beauty gave birth to Love and a father’s shoulder upheld the care’.
Love can work miracles; especially the love of a mother and a father can do more than that’. For a smooth psychological mind set up of a child, parents’ affection is essential. Parents and other relatives can find time to spend some time to enjoy the love of the child at home.
1. Avoid Distractions at Home
‘Distractions are danger zone of a child’s healthy growth’.
A child’s mind is like a kite in the air floating along the direction of the wind. It is easy to divert them by modern means of attractions. The media equipment at home would be the major cause of spoiling their studies.
Parents can be little strict regarding their child’s usage of media, for you have the greater responsibility of correcting their mistakes to make them safe and fine into their future. Make them understand that media is to relax and enrich, and not to run behind and spoil.
2. Comforts to Study
‘If efforts are taken, the home environment would be better than the school environment for the learning of the child’.
Home is a place where the child is left free with no strict timetable. So there are many possibilities where the child can totally deny the daily home works, which would kill the interest of the child in studies.
Keep on reminding the child to do their works given from the school. Clean up and arrange the study area neatly, so that the child would feel comfortable and pleased to be regular in studies. Satisfy the need of the child’s learning to continue with a good spirit.
3. A Peaceful Home
‘A happy day begins from peace at home’.
Not with everybody it is pointed… misunderstandings bound to happen as a part of life. Never show off your other tensions in the presence of the child and become a reason for spoiling their peaceful mind.
Create a confidence that your help and support is always with them. Don’t forget to encourage them even for their smaller achievements, as it would greatly impact for a good improvement.
4. Positive Comments About
‘To make your child love to learn, make them love their school’
During the 14 years of schooling, there may be some occasions where you may have some negative feedback about the school but still make it a point to continue a smooth journey, by going for a gentle suggestion.
Always promote a good image of the school by your positive comments to the child. Never let down the school and the teacher into the mind of the child, which is his major environment in learning.
CONCLUSION
‘Today’s Learning transfers to Tomorrow’s Life’
Learning is an important task that everybody undergoes; either as a subject or as a value. The age of learning and the stage of learning walks together with the environment of learning. All that is to be learned at a particular age or at a particular stage, is to be done at that particular time. Learning the early facts in the later years sometimes will be of no use.
So let us help the child learn whatever is to be learned day by day. Work together dedicate to create the BEST LEARNING ENVIRONMENT as much as possible for a BETTER LEARNING of the child.
How as a school and home you are providing the best healthy environment for your child?
Author : Shiney Charlotte.J
