Early childhood learning
You will utilize a PowerPoint template to visually design your room. You will then to write a paper that explains and justifies your choices in the room, including practices that would create an environment that supports early childhood learning. For this project you will:
Identify for yourself the concepts you want your room to demonstrate.
Use the Room Design Activity PowerPoint template to build the room you require for the age group you have chosen. Ensure you have enough room for the number of children and teachers you desire and are allowed for by state mandates. ( 20 Students 2 Teachers – Georgia Standandards)
Look at the choices of learning centers, safety equipment, materials, and furnishings that are available to you. Select and position them in ways you feel are appropriate.
Save your Room Design Activity PowerPoint.
Use your Room Design as the basis of your paper. Write a 4 page report in which you describe and justify your room, including:
Concepts and Goals.
Define the educational concepts you want your room to demonstrate and the goals your environment will support.
Define the children your room will be serving, including their age and number.
Physical Space.
Describe and justify the size of room, teacher to child ratio, safety additions such as fire exits, furnishings such as cribs or desks, number and type of learning centers, and any other elements you believe necessary in setting up a room for this age of child.
Practices.
Expectations and modeling of respectful treatment of others.
Support of cultural, linguistic, and ethnic diversity.
Engaging students in their own learning through participation in a variety of experiences and stimuli.
Ongoing assessment and monitoring of environment.
Use your classroom observations and course readings to support your justifications for the choices you made.
Style and References: The project must be a scholarly piece of work with a cover page, APA style, citations, and references, and be free of grammatical errors.
Length: The project must be 4 pages in length, double-spaced, not including cover page and references.
Visual Room Design: The project must also include your visual representation of the room.
Project Objectives
To successfully complete this project, you will be expected to:
Define a concept for an early learning environment that meets the needs of young children.
Create a supportive and nurturing learning environment for young children, and provide justification for the choices made.
Create an environment for young children that promotes their independence while ensuring their overall safety, and provide justification for the choices made.
Create an environment in which all students, regardless of ability, culture, and background, will feel comfortable and can thrive, and provide justification for the choices made.
Support writing with observation and research, and write in a scholarly fashion.
To achieve a successful project experience and outcome, you are expected to meet the following requirements.
Style and References: The project must be a scholarly piece of work with a cover page, APA style, citations, and references, and be free of grammatical errors.
Length: The project must be 4 pages in length, double-spaced, not including cover page and references.
Visual Room Design: The project must also include your visual representation of the room
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