Rethinking the Classroom Landscape
eBook - ePub

Rethinking the Classroom Landscape

Creating Environments That Connect Young Children, Families, and Communities

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Rethinking the Classroom Landscape

Creating Environments That Connect Young Children, Families, and Communities

About this book

An early childhood classroom should reinforce and enhance young children'ssense of belonging and connection to their environment, each other, theirfamilies, and their community. Rethinking theClassroom Landscape inviteseducators and administrators to rethink the traditional classroom, withinspirational examples showing how to weave
elementsthatreflecteachcenter'scommunityinto the classroom design and decoration. Colorful photos show what teachers can do to encourage a sense of communityunique to each classroom. Easy-to-implement ideas and strategies are basedon five guideposts that help educators create early childhood environments that vividly connect children, adults, and the surrounding community. Thesecommunity environments include connections to past and present, geography, typography, flora, and fauna. Rethinking the Classroom Landscape has won the Creative Child Magazine, 2017 Book of the Year Award.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction: Guideposts for Children’s Landscapes
  4. The Classroom Tapestry
  5. Reenvision Your Classroom Landscape
  6. Transforming Spaces into Places
  7. Linking Geography to the Classroom: Topography, Flora, and Fauna
  8. Creating Connected Classrooms: Past and Present
  9. A Final Invitation
  10. References and Resources