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Add the information you found on "effective learning environment" below: Name:Jill Schmidt Title of Resource: Designing Effective Learning Environments Type of Resource: On line Article Link or File: Http://frc.fvtc.edu One sentence description of resource: There are five assumptions of learning~ all of them are wrong. Key Points: 1. That people predictably transfer learning from one situation to another. 2. Learners are passive receivers of wisdom. 3. Learning is the strengthening of bonds between stimuli and correct responses. 4. That learners are blank slates on which knowledge is inscribed. 5. Skills and knowledge, to be transferrable to new situations should be acquired independent of their contexts of use.

Example: **Key Points:** Challenges the traditional concept of a classroom. Promotes collaboration vs. competition and challenges the middle-school/high-school model. Role of teacher is facilitator, coach and resource. Role of student is member of a team, researcher, and creative problem solver. Classroom not restricted to the four walls but may be extended virtually and actually beyond its walls.
 * Your Name:** Virginia Padilla Vigil
 * Title of Resource:** The 21st Century Teaching-Learning Environment
 * Type of Resource:** Online article from Teachers Net Gazette
 * Link or File:** []
 * One sentence description of resource:** Given the realities of a rapidly changing world, and the definition of an educated person prepared to cope with these changes, the concept of “classroom” must be expanded. Article by Hal Portner

**Key Points:** An effective learning environment is more likely to be successful if teachers are knowledgeable, confident, and enthused about the subjects they are teaching. When students experience the positive nature and confidence of what is be delivered by the teacher, they are usually positive about learning and successful at obtaining the skills that are essential in their lives.
 * Your Name:** Mary Helen Tafoya
 * Title of Resource:** Features of an Effective Learning Enviroment
 * Type of Resource:**Online article Published by [|Valigarm]
 * Link or File:** []
 * One sentence description of resource:** A teachers role is a very important factor in creating an effective learning environment.

Does a school foster respect among alladministrators and staff,adults,and children? Federal Government must invest in modern schools fot the modern era.
 * Name:** Betty Carpenter
 * Title of Resource**: Create Effective Learning Environments
 * Type of Resourse**:Online NEA Issue
 * Link or File:**[]
 * One sentence description resourse**: Effective school learning environment is determined by a number of factors,including both physical and cultural elements.
 * Key Points:**Does a school have the leadership and spirit to encourage all students to meet high standards?


 * Name**: Darla Stynen
 * Title of Resource**: Designing Effective Learning Environments
 * Type of Resource**: YouTube Video
 * Link or File**: []
 * One sentence description resource**: This short video demonstrates some of the key principals of creating an effective learning environment.
 * Key Points:** To create effective learning environment, learners must be motivated. In the video, students are in a warm, vibrant and fun environment. Students are actively participating and are given immediate feedback about how they are doing. Students are receiving instruction with visual cues, songs, and routines, thus allowing them to learn in many ways.

**Key Points:** In this video, there are several experienced kindergarten teachers and looking at a kindergarten classroom that is alive with authentic learning experiences that engage children in learning. Classrooms should meet the needs of all children that meet their physical needs and developmental needs and provide a secure, respectful and nurturing environment.
 * Your Name:** Pamela Ferreyra
 * Title of Resource:** Kindergarten Matters: Building Blocks for Learning
 * Type of Resource:** Webcast/ Streaming Video
 * Link or File:** http://resources.curriculum.org/secretariat/january30.shtml
 * One sentence description of resource:** Effective learning experiences in kindergarten where each child's foundation begins and children and adults learn and grow together with a fun learning experience.


 * Your Name: Adrienne Jaramillo**
 * Title of Resource:Ten Core Principles for Designing Effective Learning Environments: Insights from Brain Research and Pedagogical Theory**
 * Type of Resource: Online article adapted from a presentation**
 * Link or File: http://www.innovateonline.info/pdf/vol3_issue3/Ten_Core_Principles_for_Designing_Effective_Learning_Environments-__Insights_from_Brain_Research_and_Pedagogical_Theory.pdf**

One sentence description of resource: This article presents 10 core principles that incorporate brain research and traditional instructional design to enhance teaching and learning. **Key Points: Learners should be at the center of instruction, environmental factors should be considered, use available technology tools, prior knowledge and skills are important, all learners need core concepts, and differentiation is required.**

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 * Your Name:Becky Ramzel**
 * Title of Resource: Features of an Effective Learning Environment**
 * Type of Resource: Internet Article**
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 * One sentence description of resource: An effective learning environment changes with the needs of its students.**
 * 1) reteaches where needed
 * 2) accelerates as needed
 * 3) should have students working at their learning pace not the instuctors
 * 4) teacher should have a strong knowledge of the subject matter
 * 5) teacher should set high goals for students and develop a passion for knowledge and learning in each of them using thier interests before hers

[] **Key Points:** 1-Pictures are understood by all cultures. 2-Classical music helps students learn. 3-Recognize all holidays. 4-Meet with all students one on one. 5-Learn phrases of different languages.
 * Your Name: Lika Atencio**
 * Title of Resource: How to Create an Effective Learning Environment in a Diverse Classroom**
 * Type of Resource: Internet Article**
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 * One sentence description of resource: Internet article detailing five strategies to create a multicultural environment.**

[] **Key Points:** 1. Intergrating traditional principles of pedagogy and instructional design 2. Enrich learning experiences 3. Learning experiences both on-line and in traditional classrooms 4. Instruction for support of the learner 5. Customize learning with a variety of resources
 * Your Name: Monica MacEachen**
 * Title of Resource: Ten Core Principles for Designing Effective Learning Effective Learning Environments**
 * Type of Resource: internet Article**
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 * One sentence description of resource: An internet article describing ten principles for effective learning environments.**

**Key Points:**
 * Your Name: Mildred Vigil**
 * Title of Resource: Transforming 21st Century Learning Environments**
 * Type of Resource: webinar**
 * Link or File:** http://www.brainshark.com/pearsonschool/LTaylorJFratto
 * One sentence description of resource: This webinar talks about what schools need to do to create 21st Century Environment in schools.**
 * **Talk about book "Transforming Learning Through 21st Century Skills"**
 * **"Who took my chalk" model**
 * **Education Reform**
 * **Recognize the need to change**
 * **Assess school culture and environment**
 * **Engage Support**

[] This article focuses on how to use Understanding by Design, How People Learn, and the STAR Legacy Learning Cycle to help guide instructional design and implemention an effective learning environment. **Key Points:** According to the article, in order to have an effective learning environment we need to use three major frameworks; Understanding by Design, How People Learn (HPL), and STAR Legacy Learning Cycle. Understanding by Design describes how to plan and implement instruction that engages learners in activities where they generate the knowledge which results in learning with understanding. The How People Learn framework describes the interaction between learner centered instruction, knowledge centered instruction, assessment centered instruction, and the community. Lastly, the STAR Legacy Learning Cycle uses the four central dimensions of HPL to engage students in a sequence of six activities/experiences that require students to use and test their current knowledge. The six activities evolve to help student refine their thinking as they observe their own limits of understanding.
 * Your Name:** Christina Sanchez
 * Title of Resource:** Frameworks for Designing Effective Learning Environments
 * Type of Resource:** Article from Version 1 of NEESacademy Instructional Design, May 24, 2011
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 * One sentence description of resource:**

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 * Your Name: Veronica B. Sanchez- Cordova**
 * Title of Resource:** Curriculum Modification
 * Type of Resource:** An Article from the
 * Link or File:** []
 * One sentence description of resource:** Modifying existing general curriculum has been an effective way to create more accessible learning environments to support all students and their teachers in various educational contexts.
 * Terms used in regarding changes made to curriculum
 * Definition and nature of curriculum modification
 * Effectiveness in improving education for all children
 * Resources that will enrich actual classroom practices for diverse learners
 * Improving accessibilities of general curriculum in relation to individual students' needs

[] **Key Points:* Everyone can Learn** <span style="font-family: arial,san-serif; font-size: 13px;">*** Insrtuctuion that works** <span style="font-family: arial,san-serif; font-size: 13px;">*** Recognize individual differnces in students** <span style="font-family: arial,san-serif; font-size: 13px;">***Safety within your classroom** <span style="font-family: arial,san-serif; font-size: 13px;">*** Build Relationships** <span style="font-family: arial,san-serif; font-size: 13px;">*** Behavior solutions** <span style="font-family: arial,san-serif; font-size: 13px;">***Teach Everything**
 * Your Name: Mary F. Castillo**
 * Title of Resource:Be a Super Teacher**
 * Type of Resource: Video from You tube**
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 * One sentence description of resource: Effective ways to be a Super Teacher in a effective learning envioment**

<span style="font-family: arial,san-serif; font-size: 13px;">**Key Points:** beginning the day with an agenda, having an inviting environment, being organized, having activity choices for students that finish work early, keep activities relevant to curriculum, have a comfortable separated space for students to spend time.
 * Your Name:** Clairessa Nicholas
 * Title of Resource:** Creating a Positive Learning Environment.wmv
 * Type of Resource:** powerpoint/video
 * Link or File:** []
 * One sentence description of resource:** Ideas for creating an effective learning environment

<span style="font-family: arial,san-serif; font-size: 13px;">**Key Points:** Example of a digital learner, there will be future jobs that will use technology that do not exist today. Second classroom-Second Life- A virtual world that is social and user generated without game mechanics. 400 universities use second life. Students can also work as teams (groups).
 * Your Name: Sanjar Hekmati**
 * Title of Resource: A Digital Classroom**
 * Type of Resource: video from youtube**
 * Link or File:** []
 * One sentence description of resource: A short documentary that explores the potential of using technology in education, emphasizing the use of Second Life**

[] teachers will learn to create tools to measure and evaluate the efficacy of activities in their classrooms and to ensure the outcome is linked to student achievement <span style="font-family: arial,san-serif; font-size: 13px;">**Key Points:**
 * Your Name: Regina Montoya**
 * Title of Resource:** Effective Measures of Classroom Activities
 * Type of Resource: document**
 * Link or File:**
 * One sentence description of resource:**
 * Create appropriate assessment measures for classroom strategies and projects.
 * Measure the effectiveness of activities in the classroom to ensure the outcome is linked to student achievement.
 * Write effective multiple choice items, applicable rubrics, and measurable open response items.

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Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4GLTE smartphone Title of Resource: Promoting Effective Early Learning Type of Resource: Internet Article Link or File: [] One sentence description of resource: This article describes how low-income children are far behind when entering school. Key Points: Increasing early literacy and math skills is vital to closing the achievement gap between low -income children and their more advantaged peers. What are the gaps? Are they irreversible? Recommendations for state and local policymakers, Early learning administrators, teachers, families, community leaders, and researchers. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Name Delfne Baca <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Title of Resource:Effective Learning Environment <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Type of Resource: Promethean Planet on effective learning environment <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Link of File: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|www.prometheanplanet.com/.../**effective**-**learning**-**environments**.aspx] **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">creating a positive learning environment in your classroom so that your students will feel safe, comfortable and will become active participants in every lesson ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Name: Lucy Sanchez
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Key Points: **<span style="color: #002c6b; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1. ** **<span style="color: #002c6b; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Develop and post classroom rules and procedures **
 * <span style="color: #002c6b; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">2. Create a seating chart **
 * <span style="color: #002c6b; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3. Assign students classroom jobs **
 * <span style="color: #002c6b; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">4. Motivate students with rewards **
 * <span style="color: #002c6b; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">5. Use non-verbal cues to keep students on task and minimise discipline issues **
 * <span style="color: #002c6b; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">6. Account for a full range of learning styles and needs **
 * <span style="color: #002c6b; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">7. Treat your students with respect and let them know you care **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Title of Resource: Helping Teachers Design Effective Learning Environments

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Link or File: Article-http://sdexter.net/courses/589/downloads/%20%20ch1_intro_12.04.04.pdf

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">One sentence description of resource: Learning should focus on learning with understanding which means that students’ develop a conceptual understanding based upon a strong understanding of the subject matter so they can support more cognitively complex work, such as decision making, problem solving, and invention.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Key Points: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1. In a learner-centered learning environment, teachers take the knowledge and prior experiences of individual learners into account in their teaching and try to accommodate learners’ strengths and interests. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">2. In a knowledge-centered learning environment, teachers direct learning activities toward developing students’ deep understanding. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">3. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In an assessment-centered learning environment, teachers provide students with multiple opportunities to make their thinking visible and with feedback on their efforts.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">4. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In a community-centered learning environment, students need not only to feel safe to ask questions and to reveal their ideas and difficulties they have in understanding the subject matter, but also to develop norms of behavior that contribute to successful learning in that learning environment.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">5. Technology can enliven teaching and learning by facilitating the incorporation of real-world problems into the curriculum. It can also make it easier for teachers to provide feedback.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">6. The article included technology standards, teacher assessment and support consortium, and technology integration and implementation principles.