Creating a Positive Learning Environment

This unit is designed to develop Pre-service Teachers’ (PSTs) skills, knowledge and understanding of how to create and maintain positive learning environments that are responsive to the learning, emotional and social needs of students. In this unit, PST’s will look at strategies to use to develop an engaging and positive learning environment. During this unit students will explore classroom management strategies and how to develop personal classroom management plans. Through addressing the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, PST's will also interrogate teacher-student interactions that support positive learning environments.
The issue of bullying will also be explored with an examination of issues around online and face to face bullying. Legislation related to this will also be unpacked.
This unit builds on PSTs’ primary school professional experiences and will support PST’s to articulate and reflect on important questions regarding the impact of teachers' work. In particular, PST’s will reflect on their experiences of, and learning in, primary schools by investigating personal, school-based, theoretical and socio-cultural explanations of their experiences in educational settings, including the principles underpinning the creation of safe and secure classroom environments.



The key issues that will be explored in this unit will include:

• Developing a rapport with students and modelling regard for student perspectives.
• Understanding the needs of all students.
• Learning how to create engaging and positive learning environments that are safe and secure.
• Learning how to create a culture of high expectations and success.
• Developing skills in how to manage a classroom.