Establishing A Healthy Learning Environment Analysis

With the help of the works of three already successful educators, I will construct the environment that I wish to create when I am in the role of educator myself. The first step to establishing a healthy learning environment is to create a strong student-teacher bond. Caring about a student 's well-being inclines them to work harder towards their final grades. Thunder-McGuire focuses on the understanding of one student and creates a bond. Temple Grandin taught me more about the importance of hands-on learning experiences. By knowing how a student learns, a teacher can employ several different ways of instruction. The need to cover all your bases is imperative when writing lesson plans. The personal construction of a positive learning …show more content…
Forming a unique bond with Chris, Thunder-McGuire has created a pathway for learning. I look back on my own career as a student my 5th-grade teacher still knows my name. We formed a bond through everything she taught me. I want for my students to walk into my classroom and know I care. In an art classroom, we are given the unique opportunity to take a deeper look into the students’ emotions. With other subjects, these are more neatly hidden, but with art it is out in the open. I want to create lesson plans that I allow for my students to share in a comfortable environment. In Caitlin Ostrow Seidler 's article which discusses how to approach teaching about stereotypes and difference, I learned that the importance of creating an environment where students care for one another and see each of their talents. I had the opportunity in high school to be in a class that worked towards a single project to be auctioned off to raise money. Several other classes also came together and created a presentation of Starry Night by Van Gogh using small jewelry beans. Everyone joined in to hunt for specific beads and took criticism openly. When the final …show more content…
In the arts, students are given an opportunity for creative problem solving through many different means. By having lesson plans that do not box the students into single ways of thought, it allows unique and engaging projects. With the access to technology that this generation has, it is a challenge to keep them working on a single task for an extended period of time. When a student finds a project that excites them, a continual focus is no longer an issue. Constructing projects that interest and making a student work for a solution will form a learning environment that is filled with students passionate to work. My goal for my classroom is to form a learning environment that is healthy; one where students work to create projects that they are proud of because they put in more than just minimal effort. I want to fill my classroom with different thinkers to create a place that feels like home to all my students ith the hope that it is possible for students to also treat one another as more than just equals, but as friends. Being positively impacted myself by so many great teachers; I want to make a space that is most beneficial to my