Classroom Design, Learning, and Teaching Methods that Affect Student Development

EDUC 618
Literature Review
Abstract
This paper includes a literature review relating to classroom design, learning, and teaching methods. This literature is focused on the difference in space's ambiance, and the learning environment students walk into each day. It also focuses on the various types of teaching methods to maximize the classroom's potential for students who learn in different ways.
Keywords: classroom, design, learning, affect, seating, arrangements, students, teachers
Summary
Classroom design and teaching methods that affect student development
As students have to spend large chunks of time in school, classrooms should be welcoming and warm to boost the student's morale. Additionally, classroom design can facilitate the learning experiences of students with special needs, including ADD, ADHD and specific learning disabilities. Classroom design has the power to impact students' well-being and motivation, either for better or for worse. Furthermore, when utilizing different teaching methods to fit the needs of every student makes a great deal of difference in student development. Every individual learns differently, and when teachers utilize only one teaching method, only a few students are developing thus leaving out the others who learn with different methods.
Introduction
The idea of having good teachers is not all that matters to ensure the success of students in classwork. A lot has to be done in regard to the classroom design to ensure that the students are comfortable enough to focus on their studies hence ensuring their success. Such comfort is dependent on the design of the classroom which involves the seating arrangement. In addition, the seating arrangement is a characteristic of the different seating methods available for schools to utilize. Different teachers believe in different seating arrangements hence making it easy for them to decide what is best for the students. Therefore, this research is aimed at answering the question as to why teachers prefer the different seating arrangements to make the classroom design and outline the various teaching methods that have proven to be a success.
Having developed the best classroom design, the teacher has the obligation of identifying the teaching methods that will best suit the students. Through the experience of most of the teachers, it becomes easy to decide on the teaching methods to use on different grades. Students have different learning abilities and, therefore, the teacher should ensure that they understand each of the students before deciding to employ a specific teaching method.
Therefore has been a lot of advancements in the world of technology hence resulting to changes in the manner in which teachers teach their students. E-learning has disrupted the belief that the classroom design can have an impact on the learning abilities of students because it does not provide students with the opportunity to be in a physical classroom. However, this technology is only available for higher learning which, constitutes a small percentage of the total number of people that have access to education. Therefore, the largest probability of people learns in physical classrooms hence making the classroom design and teaching methods an important...