Unit 6 - Redesigning the Learning Space
Post Assessment: Reflection. How is Space the Third Teacher? |
We always conduct research, collect data and debate on factors affecting the development, cognitive growth and academic performance of our children. One idea that keeps repeating itself in all these research and data collection exercises is the idea of exposure, stimuli, nurture, experiences. What are all these words? Essentially, they all mean the same thing for a child. They all mean a growing and developing child’s environment and the learning that he or she is absorbing from it. If a child experiences chaos, he/she learns to be disorganized and irritated. If a child has opportunity to explore and play, he/she will learn to experiment, try, fail, try again; he/she will learn confidence and perseverance. This is how space around a student becomes a third teacher. A teacher that teaches by example not by words. Whichever opportunities we provide in a student’s learning space become the possibilities he/she will have in life. If today we limit our thoughts and resources in a student’s learning space, we are in reality limiting the learning opportunities that student may have had, and ultimately limiting the learning and achievement that student could have had in life.
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