Discussion Questions
- As you think about planning a classroom environment, what is your vision of the way it might look and feel? How will you personalize it?
- Find the kindergarten learning standards online at the state department of education for the state in which you live or work. Choose a content (subject) or developmental area. Look at the standards and the indicators or benchmarks for it. Brainstorm some ideas about topics and activities that might support learning about the standard.
- Think about the planning styles described in this chapter; which do you think best represents your natural inclinations about how to organize and plan activities? Why?
Key Terms
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A special area in a Reggio Emilia school that is set up like an art studio and serves as a dedicated space for working on projects
A statement in learning standards about when expected progress should occur
Generating ideas about possibilities without necessarily committing to them as a plan
Ideas about concepts that can be learned in a study organized to show how they relate to different areas of the curriculum
A long-term investigation about a topic that evolves over time rather than being entirely preplanned
A statement in standards about a typical behavior or action showing that a child is meeting the standard
A graphic organizer that categorizes brainstorming ideas into “what we know, what we want to know, and how we might learn”
A tool that provides sequencing information about when different aspects of a curriculum should be addressed
Those resources that come directly from an author or developer of a curriculum
Tool provided with some curricula that indicates when and how different skills and concepts are addressed
Information and resources about a curriculum that are developed by people other than the original authors
A long-term study that is generally planned in advance