As you have learned over the last four weeks, there are many considerations to include when designing a positive learning environment: from considering the unique needs of your students; fostering classroom community; developing schedules; routines and transitions; to ensuring the overall climate is diverse, equitable, and inclusiveit is no simple task.
For your final assignment in this course, you will bring together the work you have already begun, along with additional elements to create your final visual layout and a rationale for how your design supports the needs of the children and family you will be working with based on the classroom you have been utilizing throughout the course.
To prepare,
Locate the visual layout you created in your Week 3 assignment.
Download a copy of the .
Review the feedback you received from your instructor on previous assignments and your peers feedback in the Week 4 Designing the Classroom Environment discussion forum.
Watch .
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Read Advancing Equity in Early Childhood.
Preschool Classroom
A 2/3-year-old classroom of 12 students. In the room you have one student Maria who comes from a home where Spanish is only spoken. Marias parents seem very interested in supporting her, but language is a barrier for them to communicate their needs to you. You also have one child Johnny who has cognitive and physical delays which require him to work with an aid most of the time when he is in your room. Johnnys mom is very worried about him and would like to schedule regular meetings with you to review his goals and progress throughout the year. Then, you have a 3-year-old boy Michael who is living with a foster family after being moved around a bit. The family is overwhelmed trying to help him manage his behavior and he tends to lash out at other children often.
Part 1: Final Visual Layout
Using the tool of your choice, create a final visual layout for your chosen classroom. environment. There should be enhancements and refinements to your visual layout based on the feedback you have received.
Label the layout to identify which of the classrooms you designed it for (Preschool Classroom, 4K or 5K Classroom, or First-Grade Classroom).
Evaluate your final design based on the .
Part 2: Positive Learning Environment Rationale
Describe how you enhanced or refined your visual layout based on the feedback you received.
Explain how your classroom design incorporates the key principles and characteristics related to developmentally appropriate practices in establishing high-quality learning environments for diverse young leaners.
Assess how your classroom design fosters a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment.
Demonstrate how your classroom design allows you to utilize classroom management techniques, such as daily schedules, routines, and transitions.
Express how your classroom design encourages your students to foster a strong sense of community. Break down how your classroom design provides opportunities to engage and foster partnerships with families.