Exam #1

The degree to which the environment promotes students cognitive development and academic achievement

• Physical Security

• Social Contact

• Growth

• Symbolic Identification

Creating a classroom that appeals to students, needs to look like an inviting place to study, work and interact with classmates

• Pleasure

• Multidimensionality

• Growth

• Task Instrumentality

Refers to the ways the environment helps us carry out the tasks we need to accomplish. (How often are the ipads or computers used? Are they accessible but out of the way when not in use? How often will you use the dry erase, smart board or laptop to provide instruction? Can students easily get around the room?)

• Shelter and Security

• Symbolic Identification

• Simultaneity

• Task Instrumentality

Teachers should arrange students' desk in a way that reflects the degree of social interaction they are seeking.

• Shelter and Security

• Social Contact

• Task Instrumentality

• Symbolic Identification

Shelter from rain, snow, extreme heat, cold, loud noises, odors, etc (without these needs met, students may find it difficult to concentrate)

• Physical Security

• Psychological Security

• Growth

• Social Contact

information provided by a setting about the people who spend time there. (What do you want your classroom to "say" about your students, their interests, backgrounds, accomplishments and preferences? What do you want your classroom to say about you, your goals, values, and beliefs about education?)

• Growth

• Pleasure

• Multidimensionality

• Symbolic Identification

Signifies protection and a sense of privacy; in a classroom context this means creating spaces where students can "hide" if only for a few minutes

• Peril

• Expansion

• Refuge

• Enticement

Has to do with the quality of a physical space that encourages a passerby to stop and look inside

• Refuge

• Enticement

• Peril

• Expansion

has to do with creating a spacious, open place with plenty of light

• Refuge

• Peril

• Enticement

• Expasion

the very slight subtle feeling of danger, comes from when you look down a relatively high place to a lower place

• Peril

• Enticement

• Expansion

• Refuge