As the saying goes…” tell me who your friends are and I will tell who you are.”
For teachers… “ show me your classroom and I will tell what kind of teacher you are.”
From what teachers have learned during their college years from their professors, and from what they have heard from their superiors now that they are actually teachers…”make your classrooms conducive to learning!”
Truly, classrooms have great impact in the teaching-learning process.
Making classrooms conducive to learning by having bulletin boards with different art-crafts; making it clean and safe for pupils; having modern audio-visual gadgets; and making it well-ventilated is not enough to classify it as a class-A classroom for teaching-learning process and to justify that the teacher that owns it is the best teacher.
It is said that classroom is the second home for pupils…so make it homey and a welcoming place for every pupil. The physical characteristics of the classroom create behavioral responses to learners. Provide the classrooms with books that would catch the pupils’ interests. There should be fun board games like snake and ladders; brain-exerciser board games like scrabbles and chess; pick-up sticks, jigsaw puzzles, educational comics; and others so that pupils will spend their free time in the classroom instead of playing and running outside, making them sweat, in which will make them smell stinky during class hours. Spending time inside the
(CLASSROOM: Mirror of Teachers)
classrooms during pupils’ break time make them safe from harm brought by playing. Safeness, orderliness and freeness from distraction should be maintained.
Classroom must show encouragement to pupils needs in order for them to be happy and willing to attend classes. It should be inviting to its pupils. Decorate it with items that would
bring-out a good disposition to the pupils…including the teachers. Always remember that it should also bring-out the best disposition to the teachers. The best decoration a classroom should have is the teacher. The teacher must be always homey and welcoming to every child.
If a teacher has a classroom like this, his or her reflection is enlightened with the essence of a real teacher.
By: Josielyne F. Pragacha | Teacher III | Pantingan Elementary School | Pantingan, Pilar, Bataan
