Chapter 8

 To create a poster with several guiding principles for optimizing the  physical space in an early childcare center and to evaluate your poster.
 

Scenario:
You  are the director of a childcare center for infants and toddlers. You  have several novice teachers on your staff whose infant learning  environments do not align with NAEYC recommendations. 

After  watching the video on youtube titled, “Appropriate Learning Environments and Room  Arrangements,” you realize that the teachers would benefit from a set of  basic, recommended guidelines. You decide to make a poster to summarize  several of these guidelines, drawing from the advice of early childhood  specialists, before meeting with each teacher to discuss how best to  rearrange classroom furniture, toys, books, and so on.

 You annotate each guideline on your poster, explaining the advantages  from the child’s perspective. Last, you do the same, explaining the  advantages from the teacher’s perspective. 

Focus Assignment: 50 points

Create a poster, using digital tools, that summarize six recommended  guidelines for creating a warm, stimulating, and engaging space for  infants and toddlers. Then annotate each guideline, explaining the  benefits from the child’s point of view. Explain the benefit of each  guideline from the teacher’s perspective.

Self-Reflection: 50 points

1. For each item of your poster, explain how this guideline addresses the issues in the scenario