Environment Analysis

                 (The Effect of Classroom Environment on Student Learning )

Based on my reading that is about Environment Analysis (Tessmer, 1990) involves looking at the factors that will have a strong effect on decisions about the goals of the course, what to include in the course, and how to teach and assess it. These factors can arise from the learners, the teachers, and the teaching and learning situation. Environment analysis is also called “situation analysis” (Richards, 2001) or “constraints analysis”. A constraint can be positive in curriculum design. For example, a constraint could be that the teachers are all very highly trained and are able and willing to make their own class activities. This would have a major effect on curriculum design as much of the format and presentation work could be left to the teachers. In some models of curriculum design, environment analysis is included in needs analysis. If not approached correctly, a classroom can be set up in a way that stifles creativity or does not promote a positive learning environment. There are many things that can affect this environment. There are physical elements such as wall art, arrangement of desks, or resources. Also, there are intangible elements such as the energy of the classroom, the rules, or the sounds within the room. Each of these can impact a student’s focus and achievement in the class. They can also affect a teacher’s attitude in the class. Included in each of these elements of the classroom is the emotional environment. The way in which a teacher organizes their class, or how they control it, will yield positive or negative consequences for their students. If a teacher is unmotivated or negative there will be a direct impact on the students within the classroom. Similarly, if a teacher is motivated and positive they will likely have a beneficial impact on their students as well. It is important for a teacher to understand this cause and effect in order to understand how to organize their classroom to create a better learning Page | 2 environment. In this paper, I will investigate several classroom adaptations and argue that their strengths outweigh their weaknesses. The standard for many classrooms today is to have desks aligned in rows within the classroom. This system of arrangement seems to make students lose focus and creates a higher number of disruptions in the classroom.1 This structure does not encourage interaction between students and focuses more on the student as an individual completing their own work.

Humans are social creatures that want attention, and if they aren’t going to be able to get it from their classmates then they will commonly act out to get attention from their teacher.

Environment analysis involves looking at the local and wider situation to make sure that the course will fit and will meet local requirements. There is considerable research data on many of the important environment factors, including class size, Classroom Environment, motivation, culture, learners of mixed proficiency and special purpose goals. Good environment analysis draws on both analysis of the environment and application of previous research and theory. In some models of curriculum design, environment analysis is included in needs analysis.

In this case that I interest to describe about the effect of classroom environment. I have experience when I thought two differences schools in Bulukumba where the students characteristic of two school differences and difference also with the situation of the school that I mean classroom environment. When I though in school A, it has the complete infrastructure . The environment of the classroom in school A is complete, wide size, wonderful design, the effect of the classroom environment is influence to the students comfortable joining the studying. The indicator of the effect of the classroom environment is students enjoyable, students’ achievement, and students performance. Actually no all of the students got the advantage of classroom environment but the most of them. Difference, when I thought in school B where it is stated in the village and it has less infrastructure, small size of the class and the condition of the class is not supporting the students to study enjoyable. The effect of the classroom environment in the school B is not supporting to the students’ motivation, students’ happiness, and students’ achievement in the classroom. So base on my experience in teaching a classroom can be set up in a way that stifles creativity or does not promote a positive learning environment. There are many things that can affect this environment. There are physical elements such as wall art, arrangement of desks, or resources. Also, there are intangible elements such as the energy of the classroom, the rules, or the sounds within the room. Each of these can impact a student’s focus and achievement in the class. They can also affect a teacher’s attitude in the class.

The research that the title relevant with my experience  is A study of class size effects in English school reception year classes .  Where it is talking about Using a series of multilevel models, it is shown that there is a relationship with size of class, after various confounding factors have been allowed for, and that there are interactions between class size and initial achievement and between class size and entitlement to free school meals. It is argued that these results, especially the differential effects for different groups of children, could have important implications for educational policy( Peter Blatchford,  Harvey Goldstein  and William Browne, 2002, p.2). Others research that relevant is Class Size and Educational Achievement: a review of methodology with particular reference to study design HARVEY GOLDSTEIN & PETER BLATCHF'ORD (1997, p.267) Less has been said about exploring the detailed means by which any change in class size actually produces changes in cognitive or affective attributes. There is, of course, no Reason why a statistical modelling approach cannot be extended to studying such processes, although this would typically involve the collection of large amounts of detailed process data. To be effective, however, such research would benefit by being supplemented by detailed qualitative and case study research which can attempt to generate the specific theories for further evaluation and testing. The  classroom environment plays a crucial role in keeping students engaged and allowing them to be successful within the classroom. The teacher can modify the environment to achieve these results. There is a multitude of ways in which to do this. They can arrange the desks in different patterns. They can decorate the walls with different assignments or items. Students can be used to help lead the classroom in the way that the teacher wants to go. Even adapting the lighting or the temperature of the room can increase the effectiveness of instruction in the classroom. A good teacher is aware of these elements and the importance that they play in student success. Without giving attention to the environment of a classroom the teacher is setting their students up to be less successful (Ryan Hannah, Lee, Honors, 2013, P.20).