Part 1

Learning environment represents the different locations, backgrounds, and cultures where students learn. The term is used for distinct places outside any school area. This is used as an alternative to a regular classroom. The room includes more than benches and chalkboards. Different study things are added in the room for a more effective study purpose. Traditional and more limited contents are added in this type of studies. Students are more likely to learn in this environment rather than school. The classes organized in a more playful way. Desks are grouped in specific ways, walls are decorated with study elements and motivational comments to inspire the students. Video presentations and utilizing different audio software and hardware are used to enhance the study materials. Educators or teachers agreed that these types of classrooms are better for study and helps to understand the student briefly about the subject.

Part 1 

The design

C. The researcher has taken five kindergarten schools as follows.

Wendy’s Nursery School: The Preschool has a total number of five classes along kids ranging from fourteen months where the journey of their learning starts.

Highfields Preparatory & Kindergarten School: The school has a strong potential about learning culture and programmers which are suited best for children.

Hyde Park Nursery School & Early Learning Centre: The Preschool offers the kids warmth and appreciation to enhance the journey of their study life.

Hilda Booler Kindergarten: The school generally focuses on the interests and particular needs of the children’s. The school offers kids to develop their social and physical skills.

St Philip’s Preschool-Kindergarten: The school offers more play-based activities to the kids more grow more interests in study. The main intention is to make a positive outcome from all the students.

The classroom provides a good learning environment for the kids. Sharing different topics with other classmates and teaching through play-based activities (McCance, 2018). Utilizing the learning centers properly will enhance the student to grow interested in the study and it will grow the social activity between them.

The place where these centers are built is a naturally based ecosystem. The schools are far

Away from the crowd based area (Broadbent, Poon,  2007)

Keep learning in a natural way is a great way to study.

A classroom provided in the system to show different video and audio study materials to understand more easily on the topic.

The researcher chose these 5 centers because it is a good head start for a kid (Kirillov, Vinichenko, Melnichuk,Melnichuk& Vinogradova, 2016). The learning system is adequately good for a kid to begin interests in their study.

The researcher displayed about learning area that includes a learning board for kids, a wall painted with different writings of the children’s (Cela, Sicilia and Sánchez 2015) . This area is created by the researcher to a good learning environment for the student.

Good teaching and a friendly environment helps to keep growing interested in the study. 

Part 2

The centers

Ideal learning environment requires a place where student can enjoy studies as well as enhance their personalities. The learning environment can be ideal at home but typical organizations are more helpful for children to improve their learning skill. However, organizations need to be well developed and organized so that students can enjoy while learning. Effective learning environment maintains some characteristics and these are described below.

The design

The teachers must be well behaved so that students can be more enthusiastic about asking question (Patterson et al., 2017). Unless a student asks questions it can be considered that students are not interested in learning that subject. It can be failure of the environment also that they fail to provide. It is also needed to remind that questions are more important than answers. It may sound skeptical but it is often noted that if students do not ask questions that means the learning environment is not to that mark (Cela et al., 2015).

Students need to understand that ideas come from different resources. Reading outside the school book, observing people and nature are some useful resources to learn and enhance actually. Nowadays learning methods are changing and evolving. Earlier, people relied on typical educational institutions but things have changed today.  People are depending on different methods such as video lessons, digital library etc (edglossary.org 2019).

1. 3 questions

Q1. Why is group education needed in the classroom?

Q2. What are the things required in a classroom to create an ideal environment?

Q3. How students are learning from other resources other than reading only books?

1. Creating an exciting challenge

Students need to understand that each stage of life throws new challenges and solving those challenges is fun. Creating a challenging environment in educational institutions will help and promote students to enhance their skills. Building game is one of the finest activities that can be helpful to achieve success in the future (Kramer, Caldarella, Christensen & Shatzer, 2010)

. It helps to promote critical thinking and analytical power. Teachers must be able to ignite fire among the students to grow interested in studies. Traditional learning process is not bad but changing methods sometimes can be useful. New kind of games must be implied to grow interested in students (Rahimi, Berg, Veen, 2015).

Fun activities can be included in kindergarten schools such as learning through video lessons or audio lesson etc. School rooms can include different places to store books and user needs. Break in every lesson is needed as it helps to refresh children’s mind (kaplanco.com 2019).

1. Discussing learning centers

How learning centers attract students

Wendy’s nursery school provides enough rooms to give enough space for children. This is more of a pre-school than kindergarten. Students come here to learn the basics of education and this school provides baby care center (Trautwein, Lüdtke, Köller, et al. 2016).

Highfields Preparatory & Kindergarten School is something that offers a different type of fun activities too. It is the center attraction for children as well as parents. It creates natural curiosity for students. Hyde Park Nursery School & Early Learning Centre provides well facilities for children to promote their cultural activities. This school is not for toddler and provides enough activities to enhance creative skill. Hilda Booler Kindergarten mainly focuses on sports and activities. It is the main attraction of this school. St Philip’s Preschool Kindergarten also offers fun activities for children where students can learn basics and enjoy while learning. 

1. How students demonstrate creativity

 Creativity is natural to the form of children and promoting their creativity must be focused on by teachers. Students are curious by nature and creativity is the result of curiosity. These schools help students to enhance their creativity. Hyde Park Nursery School & Early Learning Centre makes students to form questions and find answer by them. This school also demonstrates different activities to boost creativity among children. Other kindergartens make students search for different activities
(dl.acm.org, 2019).

1. How students demonstrate problem-solving skills

Part 2

Hilda Booler Kindergarten is an attractive school for children as it fosters students to enhance the creative nature of children. Students are given problems and instructed them to solve those problems on their own. This can be considered a difficult task for children but it helps children to enhance their problem-solving skill (Broadbent & Poon, 2007). The school is situated in Sydney on Jubilee Park. A good and easily accessible place is chosen for ideal schools. The first step of learning is to consider what exactly a student intending to learn. A library must be included in the classroom for students. Collection of good books like colorful picture books rhymes and books based on the interests of kids must be included in the classroom. Animal books and drawing boards where kids can draw whatever they want are also added in the classroom. Learning lessons must be in a more friendly way and handling or taking good care of kids will be an excellent way to develop a good classroom. The center is generally focused on the social skills of a student, interacting with each other and group discussions are created in the school to develop the center. 

Part 3: Presentation 

1. Tri-fold Board

• A creative title: The Learning Environment 

• List of materials:  A tri-fold board is more lightweight. Adhesives and foam both are used to join three boards. A smooth surface is provided to write on the board. Glitters, markers, paints, and fabrics are used to design the board. Setting the margins properly and giving a good header above the board is a great way to design. Using different types of template to highlight the topics on the board.

• Checklist:Expectation on the board is to people understand about the new learning system and keep learning from these centers. Learning in an eco-friendly environment is useful to grow interests in the students about study material. The board is fulfilled with different coatings and writings from the students. Learners express their expectations from the institute and write them down on a tri-fold board.  
• Three questions:

Q1. How the new learning systems enhance the existing learning system?

Q2. What will be the expectation of students?

Q3. How is the process of growing social interests between students?

• The main intention of the study is to create a different study environment for the students and create a new way of learning. The play-based learning system is good for a kid to start their study life. Children are only able to learn simple words at first so keeping the study simple is helpful for kids. Rhymes are a good thing for children, rhyming the words and different poems to teach the kids properly. Using crayons, clays and other items made for kids is included in these centers. 

1. Material Sample

Kindergarten is the first place of learning for a kid’s study journey. The way of teaching must be friendly and easily understandable. Different types of products must be included before creating a classroom. Crayon boxes, writing tools for kids and many other things must be provided. Visualization of the study must be done by different video projectors and audio recorder or devices. This will help to understand the student more easily. A particular writing center or a specific writing space must be included in the room. This area is only for kids where they can draw or write their expressions (Xu, Du, Fan, 2015). Provide a video for the study is generally used to visualize the study materials for the children. Provide different and colorful cards to highlight the study object and prepare a good highlighted heading for the study.  The card is must be fulfilled with pieces of information to discuss the matter.

The classes organized in a more natural way in a natural ecosystem. Desks are grouped in specific ways; walls are decorated with study elements and motivational comments to inspire the students. Fun activities must be there to create an ideal environment for students. Classes must be a more organized and creative way. Teachers must be able to promote creativity in children’s mind. Learning environment also includes playing fields, a library for students etc. One thing is needed to remind that ideal nursery school must have a balance between teachers and children.

Students interact themselves with a given topic and they are told to solve questions and inquiries. This becomes helpful for children to improve analytical skill. It is noted that students often find it interesting when they are thrown questions. 

Conclusion

Children are supposed to learn and enhance themselves by learning different skills. The basic learning come from home but it is the educational institutes that offer proper learning. However, the environment plays a big factor in students’ personalities. Ideal environment means more attraction for students. Nursery schools need to develop proper infrastructure in order to develop an ideal education. 

Reference List

Book

McCance, K. L., & Huether, S. E. (2018). Pathophysiology-E-Book: The Biologic Basis for Disease in Adults and Children. US Elsevier Health Sciences. Retrieved from:  https://stlukesmedcollege.edu.ph/uploads/downloads/Newly%20Acquired%20Books%202007.pdf

Journals

Broadbent, J., & Poon, W. L. (2015). Self-regulated learning strategies & academic achievement in online higher education learning environments: A systematic review. The Internet and Higher Education, 27, 1-13.

Cela, K. L., Sicilia, M. Á., & Sánchez, S. (2015). Social network analysis in e-learning environments: A preliminary systematic review. Educational Psychology Review, 27(1), 219-246.

Kirillov, A. V., Vinichenko, M. V., Melnichuk, A. V., Melnichuk, Y. A., & Vinogradova, M. V. (2016). Improvement in the learning environment through gamification of the educational process. International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 11(7), 2071-2085.

Kramer, T. J., Caldarella, P., Christensen, L., & Shatzer, R. H. (2010). Social and emotional learning in the kindergarten classroom: Evaluation of the Strong Start curriculum. Early Childhood Education Journal, 37(4), 303

Patterson, C., Stephens, M., Chiang, V., Price, A. M., Work, F., & Snelgrove-Clarke, E. (2017). The significance of personal learning environments (PLEs) in nursing education: extending current conceptualizations. Nurse education today, 48, 99-105.

Rahimi, E., van den Berg, J., & Veen, W. (2015). Facilitating student-driven constructing of learning environments using Web 2.0 personal learning environments. Computers & Education, 81, 235-246.

Xu, J., Du, J., & Fan, X. (2015). Students’ Groupwork Management in Online Collaborative Learning Environments. Educational Technology & Society, 18(2), 195-205.

Websites

edglossary.org (2019), Learning Environment, retrieved from:  https://www.edglossary.org/about/, [Retrieved on 26.01.2019] 

kaplanco.com (2019), Classroom Floor Planner, retrieved from:  https://www.kaplanco.com/resources/floorPlanner.asp, [Retrieved on 26.01.2019] 

Online article

dl.acm.org  (2019), Can e-learning replace classroom learning? Retrieved from: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=986216, [Retrieved on 26.01.2019]