Chapter 5: Instructional Environment/ Context

Part of this chapter puts an emphasis on teachers figuring out what their beliefs are when it comes to learning and teaching. To model this I am posting my mission statement for my future classroom that I created my sophmore year in SED272.

Mission Statement

            I believe that the classroom should be a safe and secure environment in which my job is to support the moral, emotional, physical, and intellectual development of each student. To this end I will create opportunities for the students to experience and apply respect, responsibility, and leadership.

During class we brainstormed context/ environment in which we prefered to study and learn. Below is a floorplan of a classroom I created during my sophmore year of college. Using the program skitch.com I added notes about things I would change looking at my design today, and I listed some of the things we brainstormed during class about my personal beliefs about the instructional setting. 

In the future when I am teaching I must remember this list about my learning environment since it will have an influence on my students' learning.