The Learning Environment

This article explores the concept of the learning environment, including its different locations, backgrounds, and cultures. It discusses how these environments enhance student learning and promote a more effective study experience. The article also highlights the importance of creating an ideal learning environment in educational institutions.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Part 1..........................................................................................................................................3
Part 2..........................................................................................................................................7
Part 3: Presentation..................................................................................................................10
Conclusion................................................................................................................................12
Reference List..........................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
Learning environment represents the different locations, backgrounds, and cultures where
students learn. The term is used for distinct places outside any school area. This is used as an
alternative to a regular classroom. The room includes more than benches and chalkboards.
Different study things are added in the room for a more effective study purpose. Traditional
and more limited contents are added in this type of studies. Students are more likely to learn
in this environment rather than school. The classes organized in a more playful way. Desks
are grouped in specific ways, walls are decorated with study elements and motivational
comments to inspire the students. Video presentations and utilizing different audio software
and hardware are used to enhance the study materials. Educators or teachers agreed that these
types of classrooms are better for study and helps to understand the student briefly about the
subject.
Part 1
The design
A.
Fig 1: 2D image of class room
(Source: kaplan.roomstyler.com/rooms/29918770/kindergarten-school)

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B.
Fig 2: 3D image of classroom
(Source: kaplan.roomstyler.com/rooms/29918770/kindergarten-school)
C. The researcher has taken five kindergarten schools as follows.
Wendy's Nursery School: The Preschool has a total number of five classes along kids
ranging from fourteen months where the journey of their learning starts.
Highfields Preparatory & Kindergarten School: The school has a strong potential about
learning culture and programmers which are suited best for children.
Hyde Park Nursery School & Early Learning Centre: The Preschool offers the kids
warmth and appreciation to enhance the journey of their study life.
Hilda Booler Kindergarten: The school generally focuses on the interests and particular
needs of the children's. The school offers kids to develop their social and physical skills.
St Philip's Preschool-Kindergarten: The school offers more play-based activities to the
kids more grow more interests in study. The main intention is to make a positive outcome
from all the students.

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Fig 3: learning center
(Source: www.farminguk.com/News/-Year-of-Schools-and-Farming-competition-
launched_39541.html)
D. i) The classroom provides a good learning environment for the kids. Sharing different
topics with other classmates and teaching through play-based activities (McCance, 2018).
Utilizing the learning centers properly will enhance the student to grow interested in the study
and it will grow the social activity between them.
ii) The place where these centers are built is a naturally based ecosystem. The schools are far
Away from the crowd based area (Broadbent, Poon, 2007)
. Keep learning in a natural way is a great way to study.
iii) A classroom provided in the system to show different video and audio study materials to
understand more easily on the topic.
iv) The researcher chose these 5 centers because it is a good head start for a kid (Kirillov,
Vinichenko, Melnichuk, Melnichuk & Vinogradova, 2016). The learning system is
adequately good for a kid to begin interests in their study.

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Fig 4: Learning area of kindergarten
(Source: www.thesay.org/The-Learning-Circle-YMCA/Kindergarten-Program)
v) The researcher displayed about learning area that includes a learning board for kids, a wall
painted with different writings of the children's (Cela, Sicilia and Sánchez 2015) . This area is
created by the researcher to a good learning environment for the student.
vi) Good teaching and a friendly environment helps to keep growing interested in the study.

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Part 2
The centers
Ideal learning environment requires a place where student can enjoy studies as well as
enhance their personalities. The learning environment can be ideal at home but typical
organizations are more helpful for children to improve their learning skill. However,
organizations need to be well developed and organized so that students can enjoy while
learning. Effective learning environment maintains some characteristics and these are
described below.
The teachers must be well behaved so that students can be more enthusiastic about asking
question (Patterson et al., 2017). Unless a student asks questions it can be considered that
students are not interested in learning that subject. It can be failure of the environment also
that they fail to provide. It is also needed to remind that questions are more important than
answers. It may sound skeptical but it is often noted that if students do not ask questions that
means the learning environment is not to that mark (Cela et al., 2015).
Students need to understand that ideas come from different resources. Reading outside the
school book, observing people and nature are some useful resources to learn and enhance
actually. Nowadays learning methods are changing and evolving. Earlier, people relied on
typical educational institutions but things have changed today. People are depending on
different methods such as video lessons, digital library etc (edglossary.org 2019).
a. 3 questions
Q1. Why is group education needed in the classroom?
Q2. What are the things required in a classroom to create an ideal environment?
Q3. How students are learning from other resources other than reading only books?
b. Creating an exciting challenge
Students need to understand that each stage of life throws new challenges and solving those
challenges is fun. Creating a challenging environment in educational institutions will help
and promote students to enhance their skills. Building game is one of the finest activities that
can be helpful to achieve success in the future (Kramer, Caldarella, Christensen & Shatzer,
2010)
. It helps to promote critical thinking and analytical power. Teachers must be able to ignite
fire among the students to grow interested in studies. Traditional learning process is not bad

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but changing methods sometimes can be useful. New kind of games must be implied to grow
interested in students (Rahimi, Berg, Veen, 2015).
Fun activities can be included in kindergarten schools such as learning through video lessons
or audio lesson etc. School rooms can include different places to store books and user needs.
Break in every lesson is needed as it helps to refresh children's mind (kaplanco.com 2019).
c. Discussing learning centers
How learning centers attract students
Wendy’s nursery school provides enough rooms to give enough space for children. This is
more of a pre-school than kindergarten. Students come here to learn the basics of education
and this school provides baby care center (Trautwein, Lüdtke, Köller, et al. 2016).
Highfields Preparatory & Kindergarten School is something that offers a different type of
fun activities too. It is the center attraction for children as well as parents. It creates natural
curiosity for students. Hyde Park Nursery School & Early Learning Centre provides well
facilities for children to promote their cultural activities. This school is not for toddler and
provides enough activities to enhance creative skill. Hilda Booler Kindergarten mainly
focuses on sports and activities. It is the main attraction of this school. St Philip's Preschool
Kindergarten also offers fun activities for children where students can learn basics and
enjoy while learning.
b. How students demonstrate creativity
Creativity is natural to the form of children and promoting their creativity must be focused
on by teachers. Students are curious by nature and creativity is the result of curiosity. These
schools help students to enhance their creativity. Hyde Park Nursery School & Early
Learning Centre makes students to form questions and find answer by them. This school
also demonstrates different activities to boost creativity among children. Other kindergartens
make students search for different activities
(dl.acm.org, 2019).
c. How students demonstrate problem-solving skills
Hilda Booler Kindergarten is an attractive school for children as it fosters students to
enhance the creative nature of children. Students are given problems and instructed them to
solve those problems on their own. This can be considered a difficult task for children but it
helps children to enhance their problem-solving skill (Broadbent & Poon, 2007). The school
is situated in Sydney on Jubilee Park. A good and easily accessible place is chosen for ideal

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schools. The first step of learning is to consider what exactly a student intending to learn. A
library must be included in the classroom for students. Collection of good books like colorful
picture books rhymes and books based on the interests of kids must be included in the
classroom. Animal books and drawing boards where kids can draw whatever they want are
also added in the classroom. Learning lessons must be in a more friendly way and handling or
taking good care of kids will be an excellent way to develop a good classroom. The center is
generally focused on the social skills of a student, interacting with each other and group
discussions are created in the school to develop the center.

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Part 3: Presentation
a. Tri-fold Board
❏ A creative title: The Learning Environment
❏ List of materials: A tri-fold board is more lightweight. Adhesives and foam both are
used to join three boards. A smooth surface is provided to write on the board. Glitters,
markers, paints, and fabrics are used to design the board. Setting the margins properly
and giving a good header above the board is a great way to design. Using different
types of template to highlight the topics on the board.
Fig 5: Tri fold board
(Source: www.target.com/p/elmer-s-174-tri-fold-foam-presentation-board-36-x48-black/-/A-
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❏ Checklist: Expectation on the board is to people understand about the new learning
system and keep learning from these centers. Learning in an eco-friendly environment
is useful to grow interests in the students about study material. The board is fulfilled
with different coatings and writings from the students. Learners express their
expectations from the institute and write them down on a tri-fold board.
❏ Three questions:
Q1. How the new learning systems enhance the existing learning system?
Q2. What will be the expectation of students?
Q3. How is the process of growing social interests between students?
❏ The main intention of the study is to create a different study environment for the
students and create a new way of learning. The play-based learning system is good for
a kid to start their study life. Children are only able to learn simple words at first so
keeping the study simple is helpful for kids. Rhymes are a good thing for children,
rhyming the words and different poems to teach the kids properly. Using crayons,
clays and other items made for kids is included in these centers.
b. Material Sample
Kindergarten is the first place of learning for a kid's study journey. The way of teaching must
be friendly and easily understandable. Different types of products must be included before
creating a classroom. Crayon boxes, writing tools for kids and many other things must be
provided. Visualization of the study must be done by different video projectors and audio
recorder or devices. This will help to understand the student more easily. A particular writing
center or a specific writing space must be included in the room. This area is only for kids
where they can draw or write their expressions (Xu, Du, Fan, 2015). Provide a video for the
study is generally used to visualize the study materials for the children. Provide different and
colorful cards to highlight the study object and prepare a good highlighted heading for the
study. The card is must be fulfilled with pieces of information to discuss the matter.

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c. Making observations
The classes organized in a more natural way in a natural ecosystem. Desks are grouped in
specific ways; walls are decorated with study elements and motivational comments to inspire
the students. Fun activities must be there to create an ideal environment for students. Classes
must be a more organized and creative way. Teachers must be able to promote creativity in
children's mind. Learning environment also includes playing fields, a library for students etc.
One thing is needed to remind that ideal nursery school must have a balance between teachers
and children.
Students interact themselves with a given topic and they are told to solve questions and
inquiries. This becomes helpful for children to improve analytical skill. It is noted that
students often find it interesting when they are thrown questions.
Conclusion
Children are supposed to learn and enhance themselves by learning different skills. The basic
learning come from home but it is the educational institutes that offer proper learning.
However, the environment plays a big factor in students' personalities. Ideal environment
means more attraction for students. Nursery schools need to develop proper infrastructure in
order to develop an ideal education.

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