The key to maximizing your child’s experiences within early learning education is effective Environment. When the atmosphere and the physical class are aligned the child’s desire to explore awakens and their curiosity ignites their initiative to wanting to know. Consequently, it helps to ease the transition between home and care, building a sense of confidence and belonging in young children.
What kind of information should I share with the us?
The educators at the Aprenden Play are your child’s primary caretakers and influencers when you aren’t around. Therefore, to best understand the needs of your child, it’s important for them to be aware of:
- Your child’s interests, likes, dislikes
- Their routines- patterns of eating, sleeping, toileting
- Your child’s current wellbeing
- Any major events taking place at home.
By providing this type of information with the us, it helps set the environment and prepare lesson plant to target goals and foster care for your child. As a result, you can get full benefit to make most of your child’s time in care.
What information should the staff share with me?
The environment we provide for your child is not one way. Just as it is important for you to enjoy how the room is arrange as it is for us to make it assessable and useful. We practice the following idea to complete home environment a learning experience. We encourage the following:
Image of the Child
With daily practice we challenge ourselves to be innovative in inviting children to explore their creativity by having a positive image of children.
Tip: Write 3 words that reflect the image of the child and use these words though the day.
Project Work
Responding to children’s interests helps bring authentic engagement and exploration to life.
Tip: Notice conversations among the children and if it is exciting for them follow up with questions of what they already know and follow with questions about their curiosity on the subject.
100 Languages
This refers to the fact that children learn in many different ways. It’s important to offer multiple opportunities for children to show what they know.
Tip: Ask children what they like to do and foster that learning style. If they do know, expose children to several experiences and observe which one they enjoy the most.
Environment as the Third Teacher
“Environment as the third teacher” is an idea that allows us to think critically about how we are setting up the environment so that all children can learn.
Tip: Being aware of the physical environments sets us up to notice children as individual interested in exploring all that is offered to them. Personalizing the environment by displaying their craft shows that you think their work is valuable and feel part of us.
Teacher as Learner
We, as teachers, should see ourselves as learners and researchers so that we can be in a space of process and active learning along with the children.
Tip: Observe and document children’s learning process and conversations. We become better learners when we remember what is being taught.
Family as Partner
To be able to know the child well and share that with families makes them feel seen and valued.
Tip: Find a way to communicate with parents of the children’s activities and vice versa. Be informed of the what is happening at home. Any major events that have happened.
Documentation
Capture the precious moments children have throughout the day. We can, as observers, assess the process and learning that has taken place during the project.
Tip: Take a lot of pictures and write down a description of the child’s reaction or the process.
We implement these tips, so if you see the room rearranged well now you understand the plan behind the scenes.
Resources:
Bucher, A. (2020, December 22). 7 Ideas from Reggio Emilia That Any Early Childhood Teacher Can Use. George Lucas Educational Foundation. https://www.edutopia.org/article/7-ideas-reggio-emilia-any-early-childhood-teacher-can-use
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