Philippine E-Journals

Functional Educational Environment As Determinants Of Students’ Classroom Involvement

Feifei Dong

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

How can a teacher create a functional learning environment? How can a teacher convert the traditional classroom into a more lively and highly conducive learning environment? These questions poses a challenge to all educators. Though a lot of modalities have been tried and tested by educators, most of them still turn out to be failure. One could design a more appropriate learning environment that will capture the interest of the learners so as to maximize their learning. Creating a functional educational environment involves more than just teaching to the standards. Although standards are important, Todd Goodson (2020), a professor at Kansas State University, reminds teachers in his account of ‘Teaching in the Time of Dogs’ that it is the time teachers spend responding to the students’ concerns that must be their starting point. For ‘in the classroom there’s one thing they can be sure of,’ ‘and that’s that anything can happen.