Creating a Positive learning Climate

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Creating a Positive learning Climate

• Professor Joseph McNair
• School of Education
• Miami Dade College

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A Positive Learning Climate

• Four factors contribute to the climate of your
  learning space
• values,
• environment,
• patterns of interaction, and
• people.

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Core Values

• Core values define the rationale for your
  program.
• Write a mission statement. Include in this
  statement the few concepts that really hold
  everything together. Involve the learner in
  creating or refining the statement.
• Program activities and content should reflect and
  reinforce those core values.
• Make sure your learning space does not send
  messages contradictory to the core values.

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Core Values
A core value in this class is to encourage and
foster inquiry learning.
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Core Values
A core value in this classroom is for the learner
to become proficient in the use of technology to
enhance learning
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Environment

• The environment of a learning space is
  characterized as its physical, mental and
  emotional aspects.
• These include
• how you arrange the furniture in the space,
• how you establish patterns of learner traffic
• what you put on the walls,
• What color or colors predominate, what kinds of
  equipments are in the space and
• how you have the learner use the space, among
  other things

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Environment

• Will you use tables or desks?
• Are they to be arranged to encourage individual
  or collaborative work?
• Teams or pairs?
• Are computers a part of the classroom furniture
  or equipment?
• Will they be used for telecollaborative
  activities,
• inquiry or internet searches,
• web publishing?

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Environment

• All of these aspects should be reflected in or
  reinforced by the core values.

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Patterns of Interactions

• Patterns of Interaction are expectations for
  interacting with each other.
• These patterns are closely tied to core values
  because values affect expectations.
• The learner should be given specific things to do
  within the learning space should have clear
  expectations of how he/she should behave.
• Patterns of interaction involve behavior and
  behavioral expectations in and out of the
  classroom.

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Patterns of Interactions

• Patterns of Interaction are specified in
  schedules, classroom rules, job responsibilities,
  etc.

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People

• People in the learning space refer not only to
  the learners but the human resources that will be
  utilized in the space.
• Are the learners to be resources to each other
• Will guest speakers be a regular feature
• Will the teacher facilitate learning or teach
  directly or both?
• Will parents and community people play a role?

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References

• The content used in this power point presentation
  was drawn from from
• http//www.youthlearn.org/learning/planning/climat
  e.asp
• http//www.youthlearn.org/learning/planning/climat
  e.asp
• http//www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/rpl_esys/collab.ht
  m