Color Scheme

Now let's look at the color scheme of your classroom. If you are using blue, green, or violet hues then you are already aware that color affects our mood and that those colors are calming to your senses and for your students. If you are using yellow, orange, and red as your main color hues, that could present a problem for some teachers, as those colors are known to stimulate and energize our mood.

An educator needs to decorate their classroom to create the learning environment that they are wanting. A librarian will want a calm environment that stimulates reading so a theme of green, blue, or violet will help emit that. A physical education teacher may want a very stimulating environment to increase physical activity. Their choices of red, yellow, and orange would energize the students to be more physically active. In the primary grade levels a teacher might accent a room in yellow, orange, and red as their students learn their color words, but avoid those colors otherwise. As a teacher you are in control of those choices and your learning environment should reflect that.