what is your vision of the way it might look and feel?

 

Discussion Questions
  1. 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?
  2. 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.
  3. 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

Click on each key term to see the definition.

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

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