Creating a Positive Learning Environment

This unit is designed to develop university students’ 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 you will look at strategies to use to develop an engaging and positive learning environment. Much of the unit will also be around classroom management strategies and the development of personal classroom management plans. 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 your primary school professional experiences and supports you to articulate and reflect on important questions regarding the impact of teachers' work. In particular you will reflect on students' experiences of, and learning in, primary schools by investigating personal, school-based, theoretical and socio-cultural explanations of your experiences in educational settings, including the principles underpinning the creation of safe and secure classroom environments.