Friday

On Friday, i spent a large portion of the lesson writing an article about how students learn. Ash and Alie helped create this, and we all wrote about different things that enable students to learn. We found several very useful websites with lots of information on about the different ways in which students learn, but a lot of it we did simply from prior knowledge of how we, personally learn. One thing i thought was very important to be included int he article was something i had noticed but never really thought about and that is the students 'comfort zone'.

Whilst i was reading an article about this, i started to realise how true it actually was, and that it is a very important factor in enabling students to learn. Or it certainly is for me, anyway. If you are happy in the environment you are told to work in, you tend to work better and focus more. This is very very true from my perspective, however i guess it might change from person to person, it depends how big your comfort zone is.