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Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and compare their learning experiences to your own. Suggest how you may have responded in their situation. Provide additional recommendations for creating the optimal environment for learning. Let them know how you would be influenced by what they have included in their optimal environment.

Paige Hobbs Week 3 Discussion 2

In high school when It was finals week was the hardest week for me. I am not a good test taker but finals week was the worst for me. We would study the last ten minutes of class for finals and after school. I was in sports so I never got the chance to go after school and the last ten minutes wasn’t enough. We would get a 20 page packet of what we would need to study in case it was on the final exam.

My optimal learning environment has to be organized and simplified If given a page or two per day to study for finals I would have had an easier time studying. I have to have a quiet area to work from with no distractions. I have to make sure that everything that had bothered me throughout the day is taken care of or thrown out the window before sitting done for homework or test. “ A positive emotional state is essential to sustain successful learning and performance. (Willis & Mitchell ,2014).

Willis, J., & Mitchell, G. (2014). The neuroscience of learning: Principles and applications for educators. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education.

Joshua Berndt

8/25/2016 3:22:22 PM

Growing up in Wisconsin I was very used to cold winters and above average summers. So from October through April or seven months of the school year it was fairly cool outside. In chapter 6 of Jensen I read, “Up to a point, the cooler your brain is, the more relaxed, receptive and cognitively sharp you are” (Jensen, E. (2005). So I found this very interesting, as I have been in some very hot place (i.e.… Afghanistan, Iraq) and I have realized the differences when it is hot out compared to cooler temperatures. Now I know this doesn't exactly refer to learning, but just in general, I feel if your comfortable while doing things whether it is learning or just playing outside, you will enjoy and learn more in the long run.

A great example for me growing up and going through the years of my educational experience is seating, where I sat in a particular class really made a huge difference as to how I would learn and perform. Jensen (2005) stated “ the stress that students may feel as a result of where they sit influences their cognition, secondly seating locations influence access to resources, materials, lighting, teachers, music, heat, bathrooms, and quiet, all these can affect a students stress level”. This played a very big part with myself in class as well growing up, as if I was in the back of the classroom, I tended to not care as much, as I felt I didn't have the teachers attention. If I was in the front of the room, or even centrally located to the things I needed, I excelled a lot better in class.

So as future educator, these are things that I have to consider among the other thousand to make sure that every student is getting the best possible learning experience. Knowing my students is the first step, and the second step is knowing what to do to help each and every student excel to the best of their ability, and if that means moving students around to where they feel comfortable in class, than that is what it takes. The smallest things may affect a student’s cognitive ability to learn, and by me knowing what to do to help that student, can go along way for everyone involved.

Josh

Reference

Jensen, E. (2005). Teaching with the brain in mind. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development