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"Some experts maintain that students learn best in a highly structured environment, one that emphasizes discipline,
punctuality, and routine. Others insist that educators, if they are to help students maximize their potential, ought to
maintain an atmosphere of relative freedom and spontaneity."
Explain your position on the issue of structure versus freedom in an ideal learning environment. Support your views with
reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
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There is a time and a place for a structured classroom, however an unstructured environment provides more opportunities for students to learn and maximize their potential.
An unstructured environment allows the educator to build on the collective strengths of the individual students. Through this process, an educator can tailor a curriculum to maximize the the learning potential in the classrom. By building on the students particular backgrounds and skills, the educator creates an environment that encourages them to build new knowledge and apply it effectively. An additional advantage is that it mimics the real world. A stuctured classroom cannot replicate the real world because it does not consider the possibility of constant change.
In order to be competitive and successful in the everchanging real world, students must be able to think creatively by applying past knowledge to current situations. An unstructured classroom encourages this creativity by allowing them to pursue their ideas.
Although the structured environment can be useful in some situations, for example, a classroom consiting of students who are uninterested and do not want to learn. The unstructured environment creates more opportunities for students to learn and maximize their potential. Clearly, the unstructured envrionment is the better choice.
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"Some experts maintain that students learn best in a highly structured environment, one that emphasizes discipline,
punctuality, and routine. Others insist that educators, if they are to help students maximize their potential, ought to
maintain an atmosphere of relative freedom and spontaneity."
Explain your position on the issue of structure versus freedom in an ideal learning environment. Support your views with
reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
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There is a time and a place for a structured classroom, however an unstructured environment provides more opportunities for students to learn and maximize their potential.
An unstructured environment allows the educator to build on the collective strengths of the individual students. Through this process, an educator can tailor a curriculum to maximize the the learning potential in the classrom. By building on the students particular backgrounds and skills, the educator creates an environment that encourages them to build new knowledge and apply it effectively. An additional advantage is that it mimics the real world. A stuctured classroom cannot replicate the real world because it does not consider the possibility of constant change.
In order to be competitive and successful in the everchanging real world, students must be able to think creatively by applying past knowledge to current situations. An unstructured classroom encourages this creativity by allowing them to pursue their ideas.
Although the structured environment can be useful in some situations, for example, a classroom consiting of students who are uninterested and do not want to learn. The unstructured environment creates more opportunities for students to learn and maximize their potential. Clearly, the unstructured envrionment is the better choice.
