Ensure a quiet study space where students are not distracted by irrelevant information.Ā Students are distracted by what is on the classroom walls. In classrooms with many posters and decorations, students exhibit distracted behavior more often than students in classrooms with fewer visual aids and decorations. Age makes no difference in this regard; both in higher and lower grades, the visual environment predicts students' task-oriented behavior. The more there is to see, the more difficulty students have in keeping their attention on the lesson. And the more they are distracted, the lower their test scores. If there is a lot to see in the classroom, it continues to draw students' attention, even if they spend more and longer periods in the same room. Students do not get used to the visual environment in the classroom over time and remain distracted. New educational tools and memory aids that replace already learned information mean potential new sources of distraction. Spelling rules or other educational tools and memory aids on the wall can have a positive effect. The condition is that the visual support aligns with the instruction given by the teacher. And there must be attention to it during the lesson. Students surrounded by posters with relevant information ā spelling rules during spelling lessons ā achieve higher test results than students who also see posters with other information, and than students in classrooms where no posters are hung. Higher results are only achieved if the teacher specifically pays attention to the posters during the lesson.
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