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Creative Thinking and Arts-Based Learning: Preschool Through Fourth Grade, 5e Joan Packer Isenberg & Mary Renck Jalongo © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Chapter 7

Designing Environments that Support Creativity and the Arts

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Features of Environments that Nurture Creativity

Climate: emotional and academic feeling

  • Teachers who care about children and their creativity
  • Children who feel emotionally safe
  • Materials that stimulate interest and imagination
  • Design features that evoke warm, homelike quality

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Creative Thinking and Arts-Based Learning: Preschool Through Fourth Grade, 5e Isenberg & Jalongo

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Features of Environments that Nurture Creativity

Space: how the classroom is organized to develop creative thinkers

  • Flexible use of materials
  • Defined places for quiet and noisy activities
  • Private space
  • Accommodations for children with special needs

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Features of Environments that Nurture Creativity

Time: conveys the importance of an activity or experience

  • Influences self-expression and self-regulation
  • Affects attention span
  • Affects complexity of thought

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Principles for Room Arrangement

  • Environment communicates messages about appropriate behavior
  • Space must be easy to supervise
  • Materials must be accessible and easy to use
  • Be alert to traffic patterns

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Managing Arts-Based Centers

  • Create centers that are appropriate for a particular group of children
  • Introduce the center with guidelines for its use
  • Use planning boards, procedure charts, and learning contracts
  • Assume specific teacher roles to facilitate learning
  • Document children’s progress and evaluate center use

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Creative Thinking and Arts-Based Learning: Preschool Through Fourth Grade, 5e Isenberg & Jalongo

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Types of Centers

  • Art
  • Block and construction
  • Discovery and science
  • Drama
  • Library and literacy
  • Manipulative and math
  • Media and music
  • Technology
  • Writing

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Appropriate Transitions and Routines

  • Establish a signal for listening and attending
  • Cue students about how much time is left for an activity
  • Incorporate the arts for transitions
  • Plan for the transition from indoors to outdoors

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Creative Thinking and Arts-Based Learning: Preschool Through Fourth Grade, 5e Isenberg & Jalongo

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Traditional Playgrounds

  • Simple units (large, steel, immovable)
  • Lack variety and challenge
  • For exercise and physically able children

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Adventure or “Junk” Playgrounds

  • Unconnected tools and materials
  • Offer options
  • Adults are play leaders

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Creative / Contemporary
Playgrounds

  • Superstructure (moveable parts)
  • Action-oriented
  • Variety of materials
  • Promote all forms of play
  • Opportunities for social interaction

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Equipment and Materials in the Outdoor Space

  • Movable parts – children can manipulate and use to improvise
  • Complexity – material offers many possibilities to children
  • Diversity / variety – number of ways material can be used
  • Well-defined spaces - how the amount and arrangement of space facilitates play

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Characteristics of Safe Playgrounds

  • Well- designed and maintained
  • Storage facilities
  • Appropriate surfacing materials
  • Accessibility
  • Features that children prefer (dramatic play materials and nature areas)

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Supervision in the Outdoor Environment

  • Keep the same ratio of adults outdoors as you have indoors
  • Circulate around the area
  • Set clear, reasonable limits
  • Attend to swings or climbers
  • Place 8 – 10” of fall-absorbing material under moving equipment

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Effective Storage in the Outdoor Environment

  • Child-scaled
  • Weather-tight
  • Vandal-proof
  • Multipurpose (also serves as teacher storage and a play structure)

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Unique Needs of Infants and Toddlers

Pay special attention to:

  • Ground cover that cannot be eaten
  • Hazardous material that accumulate overnight (broken objects, sharp edges)
  • Swing seats with straps
  • Safety barriers (traffic, fall hazards, pools of water)
  • Shade

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Teachers’ Roles and Responsibilities

  • View yourself as a creative teacher

  • Consider the environment to be a powerful learning tool

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The Inclusive Classroom’s Indoor Environment

  • Understand exceptionalities in order to make appropriate accommodations
  • Provide a “buddy” to model classroom routines and activities
  • Modify the physical environment (space, furniture, noise, light)
  • Modify centers by adjusting materials and equipment

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Centers in the Inclusive Classroom

  • When planning for centers, consider skill level of all learners
  • Label all materials, question charts, and center instructions with text and visual icons
  • Record directions so readers and nonreaders know what to do

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Creative Thinking and Arts-Based Learning: Preschool Through Fourth Grade, 5e Isenberg & Jalongo

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Outdoor Environment in the Inclusive Classroom

  • Understand that playing outdoors provides opportunities for gross motor, self-help and social development
  • Consider access and surfaces
  • Provide challenges with differing degrees of difficulty

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