Learning environment: Quiet please!
Gemma Goldenberg
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Noise has been found to have a detrimental effect on children's performance in school, but how does this affect children in the early years where play, chatter and exploration is encouraged? Gemma Goldenberg looks into the impact of background noise on children's literacy learning and questions what can be done to mitigate the effects of this without compromising your pedagogical approach

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