An English classroom can be carefully designed to cultivate an atmosphere conducive to multiple literacies. The key elements to classroom design include overall design elements including layout of furniture, lighting, and the controls on sound and noise. Other critical components include technologies and tangible tools to encourage hands-on learning and interactive engagement with material. The curricula, pedagogical tools, and learning strategies might be able to inform some elements of classroom design, but other elements may remain immutable. Therefore, instructors focusing on English literacy need to be adaptable and flexible, making the most of their environments and overcoming its limitations. In fact, students can become actively involved in the dynamics… Continue Reading...
study demonstrated, the Kea & Trent (2013) research draws attention to the need for dramatic changes in pedagogical practices, classroom design, and learning environments. Less lecturing and more cooperative learning or cooperative teaching seem to be the most important pedagogical changes indicated by these two studies.
I would apply the results of the Coffey & Farinde-Wu (2016) and Kea & Trent (2013) articles by altering my teaching methods, and not just focus on the content of my lesson plans. Both of these studies demonstrate that authoritarian teaching styles are generally not culturally responsive, partly because they entail unilateral communication and perpetuate cultural hegemony. Students need to be listened to… Continue Reading...
behaviors. Emotions can also promote synchronized or chaotic neurological responses. These findings have implications for classroom design and pedagogy.
Wealth means far more than just possession of material goods. As Zhang & Sternberg (2010) point out, capital refers not only to assets in the traditional sense but also to cultural capital, human capital, and social capital. A combination of different types of capital creates the type of "wealth" needed to succeed in a competitive environment. These findings have implications for educational policy and social services, but there is a complex interaction of individual variables and cultural variables in learning.
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Zhang, L.F. & Sternberg, R.J.… Continue Reading...
lessons (Hopkins, 2011). Also, Piaget contributed greatly towards the trend of age-appropriate learning experiences, curricula, and classroom design. Piaget also helped to promote the idea that in early childhood especially, learning is not about right or wrong answers but about how a child systematically incorporates new information into their mental maps, challenging each individual to learn, grow, and change (Slavin, n.d.). In early childhood care settings, children are also encouraged to explore and play, interacting with their environment in self-directed ways. Children are also viewed as being at a distinct stage in their cognitive as well as biological growth: not just as immature or incomplete adults… Continue Reading...
seemed to correspond to the differences in these temperaments. The results of these studies have tremendous implications for everything from classroom design to communications. For example, O’Connor, Gardiner & Watson (2016) found that introverts benefitted more from relaxation techniques to stimulate creativity, whereas extraverts benefitted more from ideational skills training.
As someone who is basically an introvert with some extraverted tendencies, I can see why there are some inconsistencies in the research. A pure introvert or extravert might react as expected on physiological tests like the eye blink or salivation test, but different people will react differently to different situations depending on a number of different variables like conditioning, habituation,… Continue Reading...
