- Pre K Classroom
- After you’ve designed your room, write a scholarly (4–6 pages) in which you use your classroom observations, course readings, and research to justify the room design choices you made. Include the following in your report:
- Concepts and Goals.
- Define the educational concepts you want your room to demonstrate and the goals your environment will support.
- Define the children your room will be serving, including their age and the number of children.
- Physical Space.
- Describe and justify the size of room and the ratio of teacher to children.
- Describe safety additions such as fire exits and support for handicapped teachers and children.
- Describe furnishings such as cribs or desks, number and type of learning centers, and any other elements you believe necessary in setting up a room for children of this age.
- Practices.
- Describe how expectations and modeling of respectful treatment of others take place in this room (with respect to social and emotional guidelines).
- Describe how support of cultural, linguistic, and ethnic diversity takes place in this room. How is cultural sensitivity reflected in this environment?
- Describe how this room engages students in their own learning through participation in a variety of experiences and stimuli, such as child choice activities in each learning area of the classroom environment.
- Describe how ongoing assessment and monitoring of the environment will be performed in this room. How is this environment assessed?
- Use the following resources (found in the Resources section) to assist in your research for this assignment:
- Review Evidence and APA, and browse the Writing Center’s other resources. Your work in this course requires use of APA style.
- Review the module on Finding Academic Sources for Education Literature Reviews to familiarize yourself with this process.
- Review the tools available at the Education Library Research Guide to aid in your research throughout this course.
- Additional Requirements
In addition to the above, your assignment must meet the following requirements: - Visual Room Design: Use the Room Design Activity template to draft a visual representation of your room design. Include this PowerPoint file along with your report when you submit your assignment.
- Length: must be 4–6 pages in length, double-spaced, not including the cover page and References section.
- APA Style: must be a scholarly piece of work in APA style, including a cover page, citations, and references. The writing should be free of grammatical errors.
- References: Use your classroom observations and course readings to support your justifications for the room design choices you made.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
- Concepts and Goals.
