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Optimal Environments

Optimal Environments. Jensen, Chapter 5. Psychological Environment Facilitator – learner relationship Trust Safety students feel good & learn Mutual respect It is the teacher’s duty to provide for positive psychological, emotional and social climate. Vivid Images. Visual Environment.

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Optimal Environments

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  1. Optimal Environments Jensen, Chapter 5

  2. Psychological Environment • Facilitator – learner relationship • Trust • Safety students feel good & learn • Mutual respect • It is the teacher’s duty to provide for positive psychological, emotional and social climate Vivid Images Visual Environment Color Peripherals

  3. Visual Environment • 36 visual messages per hour • Brain registers @80% of the information • Retina40% of all the nerve fibers connected to the brain (contrast, tilt, curvature, line ends, color and size • Attract the brain with movement, contrast and color changes

  4. Other Influences on Learning • Seasons • Length of daylightmelatonin and hormone levels • Information is transmitted direct from the eyes which sets our time clocksconcentration, energy & moods • People close to the equator, less likely to have SAD light therapy • Best time for learning = June & August • Temperature • Heat stress dramatically lowered scores in intellectual and physical tasks • Evolution of man (standing erect) need for change in brain temperature • Individual differences are important!

  5. Hydration • Learning is affected by hydration • Pts. Improve when more than 20 glasses of water • Athletes and actors know it • Water is better than anything with sugar or carbonated • Plants • Create better learning by • Removing pollutants from the air • Increasing negative ionization • Charging the indoor with oxygen Areca and lady palms Bamboo and rubber plants Daisies, ficus, lillies, etc

  6. Aromas • Influence our moods and levels of anxiety, fear, hunger, depression and sexuality • Some aromas inspire SS to set higher goals • Experiments with ratsodors can be addictive • Olfactory receptorsproduce endorphines = feelings of pleasure • Negative Ionization = cleaner air • Impact on learning • Speed recovery for asthma patients • Alpha rhythms • Reactions to sensory stimuli and serotonin levelsalertness and improved sense of well- being

  7. Music • Common practice to include music in the curriculum • Calms the nervous system • Improves memory, cognition, concentration & creativity • Baroque music on low levelsrelaxed and optimal learning state • Individual preferences based on experiences • Noise • Obstacle for learning • Video display terminalshi frequency noise that introduces stress

  8. Enriched Environment • Give the brain something is able to do • Provide repetition to get neurons firing repeatedly and enable them to become more efficient at firing for that information • Give timely feedback • Adapt learning to each child (technology may be helpful in the differentiation process: it can track performance and give immediate feedback • Consistency and intensity • Assessment: • Predictable • Choice • Novelty • Challenge • Feedback • control

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