My Best Learning Environment and How it Can Affect My Case Study

Learning Environment

The learning environment that you provide of your students is crucial in order to enhance their learning abilities. I would have a vibrant classroom with student artwork and contributions on the walls and ceiling. I would also have a very trusting and inviting classroom. To do this I will have a quick welcome session with each student as they enter the class. Asking the how they are doing today and how their night or weekend was. If a student gives me news of a bad morning or such I will make it an effort to discuss it further with the student, to promote a trusting relationship.
Also, I will have a learning environment that acknowledges that all children are different, i will teach from different methods and theories and in different classroom settings. We may even go outside for a lesson if needed.

Case Study

"It has been one month since the school year began and most of your 25 kindergarten students know class procedures, such as the schedule of learning activities, where they are supposed to be for each learning activity, where they are supposed to keep their personal items, and how they are expected to move about the room and the school building in order to ensure a productive learning environment.  Then there is Willard.  He must ask 20 or more times a day, “Teacher, when can we go outside to play?”  In addition, he often does not stay where he should to work on a given learning activity.  Instead, you find him wandering around the room and getting into other children’s personal things.  Three times this past week you looked up just in time to see Willard walking out of the classroom without permission.  Some of the other children in your classroom community have started making fun of Willard.  Others are beginning to become less engaged in their learning. "

Affect on Case Study

For this case study I would first take note of anything in Willard's life that may make it hard for him to retain rules, such as, little to no food at home, fighting parents, an unsafe environment, or a disability. If any of these things ware present they must first be addressed before the misbehavior in the classroom can be fixed.
Next I would do a visual schedule that is on the board and has an arrow that slides to the event that is current That way Willard and his other classmates can know the schedule verbally and visually.
After putting this schedule in affect, I would discreetly pull Willard aside after a disruptance and talk to him about why he is not understanding the rules and reiterate what the rules are. We will also set up a reward system for when he follows the rules.
Lastly, we will have a class discussion on sharing and how it makes each kid feel when their favorite toy is taken away. Each Student will be asked to report their favorite toy, how that toy makes them feel, and how they would feel if it was taken away from them. They will also be asked to relate that back to their classmates.