Fs2-Ep 5

FIELD STUDY 2 LEARNING EPISODE
FS 2 5
Preparing the Learning
Environment
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.
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 the 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 learners to move about for cooperative learning was
addressed.
A conducive learning environment should have the following characteristics:
• Flexibility – There is an 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
a. Enter the classroom and become immediately engaged in the activity;
b. Distribute and collect materials;
c. Find out about missed assignments due to absence and how to make up for them;
d. Get the teacher’s attention without disrupting the class and
e. Arrange desks, tables quickly and quietly for various purposes.
3. Greet learners as the enter your face-to-face or online 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 hic/

Infograp s
Learning environment can be traditional (F2F), virtual (online) 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 _________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________
2. Small Group Discussion _______________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
3. Checking class attendance in a virtual classroom (i.e. google meet or zoom) _____________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
Notice
Learning Environment 1:
• What have you noticed of the display in the class bulletin board? What message or
theme does it convey? ________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
• What makes it attractive to the learners? _________________________________
• Does it help the learning process? ______ How? ___________________________
___________________________________________________________________
Learning Environment 2:
• If the teacher is using a distance delivery of learning through modules, where is
most likely the learning space of the students? ____________________________
• Can you describe? ___________________________________________________
• How can you as a teacher help to make such an environment conducive for
learning? ___________________________________________________________
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 may be in different
learning spaces like homes, study hubs or in extreme cases parks or under 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?
Reflect
Based on my noticing and analysis, I realized that:
a. ____________________________________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________________________________
c. ____________________________________________________________________
d.
Write Action Research Prompts

OBSERVE
What probable problem may result from the two situations of the learning environment?
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
REFLECT
What solutions can I think of to solve the problem?
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
PLAN
How should I do it?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
Check for Mastery

Choose the best answer from the options given.
1. The 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. Online 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. Online
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/Online, 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 online or virtual learning environments are not applicable, the traditional face-to-
face or in-school will continue. How will you improve the physical learning
environment?
A. Use tables and chairs to allow cooperative learning.
B. Provide learning spaces or corners for independent study.
C. Give credit to success than failures.
D. A, B, and C.
Work on My Artifacts
In not less than 300 words, write an essay on the topic: “My Conducive Learning Environment”

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FIELD STUDY 2 LEARNING EPISODE

To have a meaningful and successful accomplishment in this FS episode, be sure to read

Clarify Your Task

A conducive learning environment should have the following characteristics:

• Flexibility – There is an opportunity to have small groups, movable walls.

Revisit the hic/

Learning environment can be traditional (F2F), virtual (online) or a combination (hybrid).

1. Bulletin Board Display _________________________________________________________

Write Action Research Prompts

Check for Mastery

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

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