Reports of Focus Group Discussions: Group E ― Teaching Environments: Key Influences and Considerations

摘要

Many developments suggest that the teacher of the future should focus upon learning environments that operate with physical and virtual spaces for students. Teaching environments should be flexible and responsive shared spaces, co-constructed within such environments. The focus group considered many arguments about the relationship between learning environments and teaching environments, the influences upon their creation and sustainability, and their outputs. The model overleaf provided a means to represent these relationships and ambiguities, giving a framework for our analysis of teaching environments and the role of the teacher in their creation. Each element in the model provided opportunities to identify new areas of research and development to increase the effectiveness of teaching environments in meeting the needs of learners in a continuously changing ICT rich, e-enabled world, including the power and control relationships within and outside schools in their creation and sustainability.