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The Learning Environment
What is the learning environment? Quite simply,
it is everything that a school is and does that impacts upon
a learner's potential to achieve.
It is the physical environment the bricks
and the mortar, the paint on the walls and the tarmac on the
playground but in the Edison Design, the Learning Environment
extends far beyond these physical attributes.
Edison's Design identifies the many and diverse
environmental and social factors that impact upon a student's
capability to engage in learning. The Learning Environment
strand of the Design has been developed from this research
to enable schools to develop a context in which the high expectations
of all members of the learning community can be consistently
met and exceeded.
The Edison Design provides a learning environment
that is consistently:
- Inclusive and learner-centred
- Respectful, safe and orderly
- Positive and supportive
- Focused on good teaching
- Rooted in a set of core values
- Modelled by teachers and all other adults
in the school
- Supportive of teachers as learners
How do we support schools in making this happen?
In our Learning Environment module, we work
with schools to review the use of time, team structures and
resources with the objective of ensuring that:
- teams of teachers have regular time each
week to monitor student progress together, plan future work
and engage in collaborative professional development
- small schools are created within the larger
school so that teachers and learners develop lasting, consistent
and constructive relationships
- the school develops a positive, value-centred
strategy for managing student behaviour
- the school establishes strategies and systems
that visually and physically bring the school's core values
and code of conduct to life for students and adults
- all staff have formal and informal professional
development opportunities to maximise their contribution
to the school and to student achievement
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