Homework: Room Design
Length: 4 to 6 pages.
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:
I. 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.
II. 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.
III. 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?
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the homework, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.