Sit Up and Listen
Need Trainers? Just Whistle!
Training environments add to the learning experience. Wouldn’t it be nice to be on the beach, laptop powered up, an instructor serving treats with easy-listening music as a backdrop to your Microsoft Excel class? What a dreamer am I! To be that instructor would be ideal. Not the case, however; probably not even in those sunny, warm locations we dream about.
So what makes a good learning environment? For me? as a learner, just equipment that works, coursework that is not heavier than my shoes, and a teacher that sets a warm, welcoming environment.
I have taught in some very interesting locations; some have been high-tech, high-gloss training rooms, one was in the bowels of a waste (human) treatment plant, and some have been in nonprofit offices that didn’t have more than two computers with the same operating system, versions of the software or monitors that didn’t have burnt images on them. It didn’t matter to me.
My ideal classroom? one that has room where students can be comfortable. (Of course having working equipment is a given.) If the room is not too cold, not too hot, and if the lighting allows students to see the textbook next to them, they can concentrate on why they’re there. If I can have their attention without too many distractions, they will be able to sit up and listen and most importantly, focus on the subject at hand.
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