The Effects of Color on Learning As a freshman at the University of South Alabama, I have not yet learned my way around campus or visited all of the facilities available to me. Although I am not very familiar with the whole campus, I have discovered something that could improve the places every student uses-- the classrooms, particularly in the Humanities building. A simple and inexpensive way to improve these rooms of learning is to repaint them. Painting the classrooms wouldn’t just affect the attractiveness of the walls, it would increase the productivity of the students sitting in them. Many studies have been performed to determine the effects of color on student learning. By looking at these studies and the opinions of many students, it is clear that student performance could be greatly enhanced by repainting classrooms in the Humanities Building. As you know, every degree offered at South Alabama requires classes such as English 101. So every student who graduates from the University of South Alabama takes at least one class in the Humanities building; most take three. Since its classrooms are used by so many students, it is a great candidate for a new coat of paint and color scheme. I recently conducted a survey of fifty students on campus. Each person was randomly chosen and asked whether or not they liked the wall color in the Humanities building classrooms. The results concluded that thirty-two of the students did not like the color scheme and eighteen did not care either way. Not one student claimed that he or she liked the color scheme. One student even claimed that the classrooms reminded her of a prison (Montee). Although the statement may seem humorous, it is not a laughing matter. Students should not fe... ... middle of paper ... ... H. and Mahnke, Rudolf H.. Color, Environment and Human Response. John Wiley and Sons, Inc, New York, 1996. The book discusses all aspects of color and how it can be used in practical ways. It also discusses how it is used to affect emotion. It lists many different studies to prove the many observations from the two authors. Montee, Shannon. Personal Intrview. 8 December 2005. Montee discussed her opinion of the color scheme in classrooms in the Humanities Building. Student Survey. Personal Survey. 7 December 2005. The survey was given to fifty random students and it simply asked their opinion of the color scheme in the Humanities Building classrooms. It asked whether they liked it, disliked it, or did not care. Thompson, Sheri. “Color in Education.” School Planning and Management. December 2003. 8 December 2005 .
Another school in the same district is located “in a former roller-skating rink” with a “lack of windows” an a scarcity of textbooks and counselors. The ratio of children to counselors is 930 to one. For 1,300 children, of which “90 percent [are] black and Hispanic” and “10 percent are Asian, white, or Middle Eastern”, the school only has 26 computers. Another school in the district, its principal relates, “‘was built to hold one thousand students’” but has “‘1,550.’” This school is also shockingly nonwhite where “’29 percent '” of students are “‘black [and] 70 percent [are]
Color is an important resource in visual communication. Color has many functions. It can be used to classify people, places and things. The colors of a flag can designate a nation. Corporations and universities use color to distinguish identity. With maps, colors can distinguish water, land, etc. They can mark and identify separate elements. The colors become icons. Color can convey an interpersonal message without language. This can be expressed in the colors that we wear such as ‘the power tie’ or colors that indicate safety and warning. C...
After attending UCLA and the University of Nairobi in Kenya, Irvine Unified School District (IUSD) South Lake Middle School Principal Bruce Baron received his Bachelor’s degree from UCI. Mr. Baron began his career in the seventies with the National Teacher Corps program, and subsequently taught at the elementary, middle, and high school level, and has been a principal at the elementary and middle school level of public institutions. His career focus has been primarily in improving the quality of schools in low-socioeconomic status (SES) neighborhoods, with a focus on improving learning and teaching, creating an information-rich environment at schools, the implementation of a learning community, continuous professional development of teachers, the encouraged involvement of parents, and seeking increased funding and resources. Aside from working at the school site level, he has been actively engaged in multicultural education and acting as a consultant to address and ameliorate inter-ethnic tensions that exist at secondary schools. His work has been recognized by the Orange County Human Relations Commission. He currently also teaches social science and history to UCI Department of Education graduate students. It is because of his extensive background and outstanding ...
Both of these pictures are the same painting, yet different feelings are provoked by each. To me the one on the left, the colorful one, is more intriguing. It jumps at you grabbing your attention and drawing your eye in, giving you a warm and lively feeling. The picture to the right seems a bit dull and emotionless, portraying a melancholy feeling. In the art world color is a good thing. It brings other elements to a picture that you can't receive by using only two colors. Color can represent many things, emotions, mood, importance, a specific object, or as we have come to know the word, people. People seem to be assigned a color that people think represents the type of person they are. Yet, unlike the art world where a color is usually linked to only one trait or emotion, like, black-sadness, white-purity, red-evil, purple-royalty, the colors that we assign each other do not have set traits that are encompassed with in each color. The only thing that is set with the categories of colors we describe each other with is the tone of our skin! The color of ones skin played a big role in the years between the late 1950's and early 1960's and defined the lines of desegregation, in the midst of this racial cacaos lied innocent children and how the case of Central High changed their rights to an education.
This is not to say that Black students do not face problems in private school settings. As many of these schools are predominately White, including the faculty, staff, and student population, certain challenges inevitably surface. Black youths face a hard challenge when their loving, well-meaning educational leaders, maintain a trend of racial inequities simply due to ignorance, and research reveals the negative impact of the same (Stevenson & Arrington, 2010). Not only educators, but also the school itself, by way of simple racial makeup, has proven to be problematic for Black students especially concerning geographic situations and socioeconomic statuses (Arrington & Stevenson, 2010; Orefield & Lee, 2006).
We live in a world where colors are everywhere around us. Colors play an essential role in humans lives as they help distinguish one object from another, associate things, emphasize or enhance important messages, and even help to track objects down faster. Colors evoke emotions and provide information of the things we see and they let us enjoy their beauty to the fullest, however, and surprisingly, colors do not exist in the real world and outside human brains. But then why do the sky appear blue or why do we perceive the rainbow with those pure, bright and immaculate set of hues if they do not exist?. Color is undoubtedly a very vital design element for those involved in the field of visual communication.
One of the ongoing debates throughout schools all around the United States is the controversy over school uniforms. There are many positive and negative opinions and facts that regard this argument. The debate over school uniforms mainly involves and affects students, parents, and school faculty/teachers. All across the US, private and public school enforce different rules and guidelines concerning a dress code/uniforms. The reason this topic can be considered so drastically important in today's society is due to the growth and individualism of the student in our school systems. I believe that school uniforms make all students' appearances identical, therefore hindering self expression and personal style.
The world is continuously changing. That means that reforms for politics, religion, and even education has to be made to fit today’s society. Schools once were segregated, then the integration of both Caucasian American and African American students, to now children of many nationality learning together. “Consensus is building around a vision of individual schools as ‘the center of change' for educational reform, yet some teachers are not’ grounded in the knowledge and skills required to
In James Banks article, “Multicultural Education and Curriculum Transformation,” he talks about how a new and improved curriculum needs to be done because the United States is beginning to have a large number of students of color. This is true because if someone was to walk into a classroom they will see that fifty percent or more of the classroom is filled with students of color. Banks states, “… the widening gap between the rich and the poor, and the changing characteristics of the nation's student population make it imperative that schools be reformed in ways that will help students and teachers to re-envision, rethink, and re-conceptualize America” (1995). It is shown that schools need to take the time and reconstruct the curriculum because the student body is changing. By reconstructing the curriculum to the needs of the students, it will have an enormous impact on them mentally and socially.
Each year, as a new group of students enter my classroom, I will encourage them to be expressive of their imaginations in their favorite subjects, whether it be art, literature, math or music. We all have rules and regulations to follow, and each student will know that there is no exception in the school or the classroom. Another goal in my classroom will be to keep the students excited about learning, not to treat school as a game or a social event, but to encourage a unique and fun atmosphere to learn. My educational ethics toward each student will be to emphasise that everyone is an individual, they are all special and unique in their own way, and that every student does not learn on the same level. I hope my students will treat each other the way they want to be treated, and respect those that may be less fortunate.
Colour: colour is the main element in any piece of artwork, it is the most eye catching, the most appealing, the one thing that tells you whether or not this piece of art suits you taste or not. It simple exists because of the light surpassing in the room to create different colours. The picture to the right, well demonstrates the element of colour because the colours are bright and bold. For some, this picture might be too bright and they might be uninterested but at the same time for some, the picture could be something that they see potential in, something that grasps the audience’s attention, it well demonstrates the RBG scale, it uses various types of reds, greens, and blues; making it all that more appealing to the audience.
Jacobs, K. W., & Suess, J. F. (1975). Effects of four psychological primary colors on anxiety state. Perceptual and motor skills, 41(1), 207-210
In this interesting topic of the psychology of colors, the most crucial pattern is the meaning of each color and his impact on the individual as it is represented as the following:
Color is all around and plays a huge role in our life. Trucco says it best when she says, “…color is hard at work, often subliminally, massaging your mood, tickling your emotions, teasing your brain” (Trucco 8). The color of and in a room can highly affect the aura of the space. Colors can take us back to the past, re-creating specific moods or events (Trucco 13). In the book, Think Color, Tricia Guild associates soft purples with a relaxed and restful state (Guild 115). In an indicative association study, it was found that Japanese differ in many color connotations than Americans. Americans str...
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