CHAPTER 7
Designing Indoor and Outdoor Environments
Discussion Prompt:
Pick your
CHAPTER 7
Designing Indoor and Outdoor Environments
Discussion Prompt:
Pick your desired age group (refer to The Teacher I Want to Become Presentation)
Create an environment that aligns with the “Program Philosophy” (refer to the Week 6 discussions) that aligns to your own developing philosophy.
Build on your philosophy, while sketching the indoor and outdoor plans.
Create the three key aspects of the environment: Physical, Social-Emotional, and Temporal (refer to 7.6 of Text); explain how your environment designs (Indoor and Outdoor) support DAP
Create your environment for your program using Chapter 7 content and items within the ECERS 7 Subscale (explain in detail each subscale and how it is aligned to your created environment).
Create and post a voice-threaded (www.voicethread.com (Links to an external site.)) PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation explaining your created environment.
***Be sure to explain what type of program your curriculum and environment represent, as well as what led you to choose the particular program philosophy.
Topic: Creating Learning Environments
Mandatory Resources to Reference
Textbook, Chapter 7 (Links to an external site.)
ECERS (Links to an external site.)
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NAEYC DAP Position StatementLinks to an external site.
Any additional resources on specific Program Philosophies
Example Structure
Slide 1: Introduction
Slide 2: Ideal Age Group and Program Type (Review Personal Philosophy)
Slide 3-5: Physical, Social, and Temporal Environment, Indoor and Outdoor – Include drawings of your original layouts and pictures with descriptions of intentional learning areas or centers.
Slides 6-13: ECERS Subscales
Slide 10: DAP – Explain how your environment designs (Indoor and Outdoor) supports DAP
Slide 11: Conclusion
Slide 12: Reference List…Remember that a reference list refers to the citations that are throughout your slides.
***Note that presentation design should include bulleted statements, pictures, and charts. Complete sentences would only be appropriate if highlighting a quote. This will assist, too, with presenting, as your audio should not be reading your material…it should be an authentic presentation of the material represented on the slides.
***I will attach my presentation and my week 6 Philosophy paper i have completed, I also want to write about the pre school age group. I will also do my voiceover presentation, i just need the slides completed***
