ABSTRACT
The impact of school environment on teaching and learning was
carried out in Niger College Junior Secondary School II. In this work
attention was be paid to the surrounding in which children learn. This
can greatly influenced their academic performance and well being in
school. the second phase of the work deals with the previous writers
views and comment, in the architecture layout décor and facilitates of
their school all play a vital role in shaping the learning environment,
yet the importance of this particular aspect of school life can often be
over look. Questionnaires were used to carry out the study headmaster,
headmistress, teachers, students were used to gather the relevant data
which revealed the impart of the school environment on teaching and
learning process.
TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction
Background of the study
Statement of problem
Purpose of the study
Significance of the study
Research questions
Definition of terms
CHAPTER TWO
Literature review
CHAPTER THREE
Methodology
Research design
Administration of questionnaire
Sample
Method of data collection
Reliability and validity of instrument
Method of data analysis
CHAPTER FOUR
Presentation and analysis of data
Responses made by school heads
Responses made by teachers
CHAPTER FIVE
Summary of finding
Conclusion
Recommendations
REFERENCES
APPENDIX
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
This study on the impact of the school environment on
teaching and learning it was carried out in Niger College Junior
Secondary School Two in Ugbekun Quarters of Ikpoba Okha Local Government
Area of Edo State. The teachers and students there were the subject
used. The secondary school environment is composed of many factors that
influence the students. In this work, attention was be paid to the
surrounding in which children learn. This can greatly influence their
academic performance, and well being in school. The architecture,
layout, décor and facilities of their school all play a vital role in
shaping the learning environment yet the importance of this particular
aspect of school life can often be over looked.
Most children no matter how well or how poorly they perform
in the classroom will at some point complain about the fact that they
have to go to school; it might be the hours, the number of days per
weeks, their teachers, or even the other students that come under fire,
but very often. It’s the school building itself that is the stumbling
block. It stands to reason that the better a building looks, the more it
inspires the people inside it. Obviously it takes more than a few
pretty colour to create legions of geniuses but what ever a child
academic ability, pleasing surroundings will definitely lead to better
attendance, improved concentration and a healthy dose of motivation and
self esteem. Its also important for staff to have a good environment,
which is adoptable to their day to day professional needs.
Aristotle (1998) also recognized the indispensable
functions of education when he stated in his books the claimed that the
aims of education should include:
1. The realization of the capabilities and potential of individual
2. The development of the body
3. The training of the appetites, which is character or moral development
4. The development of the intellect or reason. He further
held that none of the above should be emphasized at the expenses of the
others.
In line with the above aims and functions of education, the Nigeria
government in its 1981 Policy on Education stated that the five main
national objective of education are the building of:
i. Free and democratic society
ii. A just and egalitarian society
iii. A united, strong and self reliant nation
iv. A great and dynamic economy
v. A land of bright and full opportunities for all citizens.
Presently education in Nigeria has not been able to achieve the noble
objectives because it is in deep problem. According to Bronfenbrenner
(1989), young people need to have adult who are “crazy” about teaching
instead, they are driving each other crazy. In these schools, support
networks are weak or none existed for both children and teachers.
Teacher may resent what they perceive as inadequate encouragement
assistance, and resource to do their job. Students may feel that nobody
at school knows or cares about them. What can be done to change these
schools into caring productive places that children and teacher enjoy
coming to every day.
The school effect literature describes numerous factors that may
enhance the school environment including effective principal leadership,
a safe and orderly setting engaging extra curriculum activities
reduction in the size and impersonality of school and education programs
designed to fit the unique needs of specific students and school
contexts school climate is often as palatable as the weather. Some
schools have warm friendly emblems, while others have a cold for body
environment that permute classroom and offices. It seems probable that
school and classroom climate would influence student’s performance. A
number of schools around the country are still languishing in the
Victorian era, with crumbling walls and limited resources. It seems that
many school in the twenty first century particularly secondary schools
are having to shoehorn modern day teaching and up to date resource into
nineteenth century surroundings only a tiny proportion of today’s school
have been built since the mid 1970s and with a few generation of
children stampeding through their relatively modern facilities, many of
these buildings are also edging towards the end of their natural life
span.
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
The magnitude of environment problems on teaching and
learning school is very difficult to determine because so many
extraneous variables impinges on the teaching skills and learning
capabilities of teachers and students in the classroom at different
times. The time between school environment and home environment is hard
to define and varies from individual to individual.
This study takes a critical look at the impact of school
environment at different times on the teaching and learning of teachers
and students respectively in secondary schools in Benin City, the Edo
State capital.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
The following are research questions stated by the researcher
1. Do the school environment affect teaching
2. Does the size of the classroom help the students in their learning?
3. Good environment does it help staff in delivery of their profession?
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
Few studies have been carried out in Nigeria like Benin
City, Edo State to determine the impact of school environment on the
teaching and learning. The main purpose of this study is to compute the
impact of the environment on teaching and learning on teacher and pupils
respectively. Also to acquaint the school management of the danger of
degraded and noisy environment on the performance of both teacher and
students. Lastly, to consider the implication of the finding for
developing school curriculum by school administrators and educators
planners.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The importance of this study is that it will serve as a
literature for further research students and researchers for curriculum
planners it will be a lay down procedure for them in carrying out their
research work and plans. Another importance of this research is that it
serves as a documentation of facts for historical purpose and records
DEFINITION OF TERMS
In this research, some terms which are used connotatively are
defined and classified to enable us understand the context in which they
are used.
LEARNING: This is gaining knowledge by studying practice or being taught
in a school compound. It brings about the gaining of understanding that
leads to the modification of attitudes and behaviours through the
acquisition of knowledge, skills and values, through study and
experience learning cause a change of behaviour that is persistent,
measurable and specified or allows an individual to formulate a new
mental construct.
SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT: This is the school compound itself, the classroom
the furniture and teaching materials it includes the time in hours spent
in the school compound. It also embraces the school surrounding. It
must be safe, clean, comfortable and attractive classroom can stimulate
learning and help build a classroom community.
TEACHING: To give instruction in any way to persons or groups in a
school compound. It is also the conscious and deliberate effort by a
mature or experience person with intention that the latter will learn or
come to believe what he is taught on good grounds.