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In this tutorial you will learn:
- That a childcare practitioner needs to be able to assess a child's level of development
- That all children are individuals
- That children need a positive environment to thrive
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 'My space: Creating enabling environments for young children’ produced by Oxfordshire County Council.
- 'Creating indoor environments for young children’ webpage on the Community Playthings website.
- 'Learning outdoors in the early years’ webpage on the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment website.
- ‘The emotional environment’ from Croner-i
- 'The Characteristics Of A Highly Effective Learning Environment’ from Teachthought.
- 'Educational Pioneers: Susan Isaacs, 1885-1948’ by Juliet Mickelburgh in the Early Year Foundation Stage Forum.
- 'The McMillan Sisters and the ‘Deptford Welfare Experiment’’ by Dr. Pam Jarvis of Bradford College.
- Laser Learning reading text: 'Theorist table'.
- Laser Learning reading text: 'An enabling play environment'.
- Presentation
- This presentation is called ‘Understand the environment'.
- This presentation is called ‘Checking the learning environment'.
- This presentation is called ‘Outdoor learning'.
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read ‘Play and the learning environment’ on the Sage Publishing website.
- The Primary National strategy produced ‘Excellence and Enjoyment: learning and teaching in the primary years’ which contains useful information for those working in primary education. Read section 2 ‘The learning environment and its impact on learning’. You may wish to read and reflect on the CPD activities.
- This report called ‘School Learning Environments: Teacher Perceptions and Future Priorities’ looks at how some schools are changing the physical environment to promote positive learning experiences.
- Surrey County Council have create this ‘Outdoor area checklist’ for a positive environment. It is aimed at the early years, but can be adapted for use in KS1 and KS2.
- Click to read ‘Early intervention: Briefing paper’ by Parliament UK
- Extended Learning
- Think And Challenge
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