Creating a Comfortable Learning Environment
By Eugenia Splinis
EDI 600 Psychological Foundation of Education
School of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
May 18, 2009
Today, I was a little surprised and pleased with how quickly the time went by in class. Before class, I was dreading the 3 hours and believed that it would drag and I am very glad it did not. I just hope that every class for the next month will be like today’s class. I was surprisingly comfortable in class which is unusual for me because I tend to be pretty anxious the first day of class. I wondered why I was so comfortable being that I hardly knew anyone in class, and I am shy and not one to talk to people I do not know.
I also did not know what to expect in the course and what my professor would be like. We were told to introduce ourselves to people around us and this was something that could not be avoided and so I pushed myself to do. Then, we were told to have a conversation with people we did not introduce ourselves to yet, and this was a little more difficult but was done. After the second introduction, there was a third one where the whole class participated and we were put on the spot to have to come up with creative ways for people to remember our names and then we had to do something that I dread the most, a presentation. I would have never thought that I would do all this with great ease, but I did, and I wondered…why?
Creating a comfortable environment in a classroom is a must. If Dr. Dengting did not try to make class a comfortable environment by having ourselves become familiar with other people before we had to talk in front of class and present, I would have been a lot more anxious then I was! Even something as simple as participating in the name game would have originally made me very nervous. It was also helpful that you have a positive attitude and participated in activities with the class. It is important to make sure that my students in the future are comfortable in our “classroom community.” I believe that they will be able to learn better because they would not be so nervous, tense, and worried about other things and will be free to learn.
A way to help my future students become comfortable in my classroom is to first be friendly and inviting myself, so that they are not intimidated. I want my classroom décor and arrangement to be a pleasant place to be and most important I want to create a tight community within my classroom. I will have students introduce themselves in small groups and when they get comfortable with that they will introduce themselves or each other to the whole class. This is the first time I played the game and using the strategy we did in class, this is something I will do with my class in the future and for myself to help myself memorize names. I will have many group projects and activities in class so that the children work together and learn to trust each other and be comfortable around each other so that they open themselves to learning.
Long Island University, C. W. Post
May 18, 2009
Today, I was a little surprised and pleased with how quickly the time went by in class. Before class, I was dreading the 3 hours and believed that it would drag and I am very glad it did not. I just hope that every class for the next month will be like today’s class. I was surprisingly comfortable in class which is unusual for me because I tend to be pretty anxious the first day of class. I wondered why I was so comfortable being that I hardly knew anyone in class, and I am shy and not one to talk to people I do not know.
I also did not know what to expect in the course and what my professor would be like. We were told to introduce ourselves to people around us and this was something that could not be avoided and so I pushed myself to do. Then, we were told to have a conversation with people we did not introduce ourselves to yet, and this was a little more difficult but was done. After the second introduction, there was a third one where the whole class participated and we were put on the spot to have to come up with creative ways for people to remember our names and then we had to do something that I dread the most, a presentation. I would have never thought that I would do all this with great ease, but I did, and I wondered…why?
Creating a comfortable environment in a classroom is a must. If Dr. Dengting did not try to make class a comfortable environment by having ourselves become familiar with other people before we had to talk in front of class and present, I would have been a lot more anxious then I was! Even something as simple as participating in the name game would have originally made me very nervous. It was also helpful that you have a positive attitude and participated in activities with the class. It is important to make sure that my students in the future are comfortable in our “classroom community.” I believe that they will be able to learn better because they would not be so nervous, tense, and worried about other things and will be free to learn.
A way to help my future students become comfortable in my classroom is to first be friendly and inviting myself, so that they are not intimidated. I want my classroom décor and arrangement to be a pleasant place to be and most important I want to create a tight community within my classroom. I will have students introduce themselves in small groups and when they get comfortable with that they will introduce themselves or each other to the whole class. This is the first time I played the game and using the strategy we did in class, this is something I will do with my class in the future and for myself to help myself memorize names. I will have many group projects and activities in class so that the children work together and learn to trust each other and be comfortable around each other so that they open themselves to learning.
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