ASSIGNMENT | Classroom Environments

As an extension of our study of classroom environments, in this video you’ll see how the teachers address and integrate activity design along with behavior guidance and furniture arrangement!

Here’s the intro from the Eastern Connecticut State University Center for Early Childhood Education (CECE) video:

‘Classroom arrangement has a significant impact on the learning environment of a classroom. In Redesigning the Toddler Room, teacher Amie Theriault discusses her decision to rearrange her toddler classroom. She reflects on how creating a new music center and defining individual centers with the help of furniture has had a positive impact on classroom behavior, and gives advice to teachers who are thinking of redesigning their own classroom spaces.\’

Click on the CECE website or watch the embedded video (transcript attached)

http://www.easternct.edu/cece/redesigning-the-toddler-room/
After viewing, share your overall thoughts on how room design, social/emotional support and curriculum planning are all integrated.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Classroom Environments Setting up a classroom is a challenging task. Classroom must be a safe environment where children are protected and cushioned from different elements and can easily be supervised. In addition, they are environments that implement and support a child’s social/mental growth as well as curriculum.    Since most curriculums and philosophies for children’s studies stress the need for play, hands on learning and the development of a child holistically, a good curriculum should support all the aforementioned activities (Nair, 2019). One should consider whether the class design supports play and whether there are creative…