Environment
These are specific areas in a preschool classroom where children can engage in various activities based on a content area.
Learning Center
Mistaken behaviors take into account....
WHY the child behaved they way he did
WHAT can be taught so the child will behave
differently next time?
These are the three ways we examine activities for children in outside enviroments.
Risk
Hazard
Benefit
The always true statements or facts students may learn as a result of the lesson.
What are concepts/conceptual understanding?
Approximately double the amount of these are needed when planning.
What are play slots?
Name three content areas important in all preschool classrooms
Blocks, art, science/discovery, music, toys and games, literacy center
These are examples of apologies in action
Make something for the person (card/picture)
Play with that person outside
Tell a joke, make them laugh
Sing them a song
Choose them as your partner
Help them get something they need
Play a game together
Sit together at lunch
Bring them a band-aid, help them up
the kind of play that includes
opportunities for challenges, limit-testing, and
exploration of boundaries.
Risky Play
Spontaneous, Horizontal and Vertical?
What are three types of curricula?
A house area, pizza shop, florist, doctors office are some examples of what this area might become.
What is dramatic play?
The area in a classroom where children keep their backpacks and jackets.
What is a cubby?
These are three levels of mistaken behavior
1.) experimentation
2.) Socially influenced
3.) Strong needs
The four types of risk
•Social Risk- isolated, living in vacuum,
unengaged with others or the environment
•Emotional Risk- resilience, emotional
development, expression of emotion in
appropriate ways
•Physical Risk- risk to the body, physical
development
•Intellectual Risk- things that are not engaging,
not challenging, not authentic- result in the
child’s brain “turning off”
This is the portion of the lesson plan where you will write out, step by step, the
materials, environmental preparation, content, and strategies.
What is the content and strategies section?
A preschool that early childhood program is
high in quality and promotes intellectual,
language, physical, social and emotional
development, creating school readiness and
building a foundation for later academic and
social competence.
What is developmentally appropriate?
Three ways to create a feeling of community in a preschool class.
Student art, student names and photos of families, dolls and toys that represent the individual students, welcoming teacher
These are the 4 goals of mistaken behaviors.
1.) Attention Getting
2.) Power Seeking
3.) Revenge Seeking
4.) Displaying Inadequacy
Start with what children already know/are comfortable with and build from there
What is a goal ladder?
Assessment and Goals
What should always be aligned?
This type of play is typical of 2 year olds. Children play beside each other, NOT with each other. All kids may be involved in similar activities, but there is little, if any, interaction.
What is parallel play?
The learning environment includes these things.
the physical environment,
the structure of the day,
the social and emotional atmosphere.
The five steps of conflict management in preschool
Use the fingers on hand as reminder of steps
1.) Cool Down- calm down everyone involved
(including teacher!)
2.) Identify the Problem- the children put the
problem into words and AGREE on what it is.
3.) Brainstorm Solutions- the children come
up with possible solutions
4.) Go For It- decide on a solution and try it
5.) Follow Up- teacher follows up with
encouragement, monitoring and guiding as
necessary.
–You become more comfortable
–Your level of understanding grows and changes
–Weather changes, children change
–Confidence grows
–Comfort with management
–Adjusting to new situations becomes easier
What is dynamic risk assessment?
Section where you intentionally address how you will make the lesson successful for ALL your students/
specifically list what you will do to address the differences in your class.
What is Access for all/Variations/Differentiation?
1.) Role Play
• 2.) Use of make believe instead of real objects (ex: a block as a phone).
• 3.) Use of language to create make believe actions or situations (“you be the mom and I will be the baby”).
• 4.) Extended play episodes
• 5.) Interaction
• 6.) Verbal communication
What are the elements of socio-dramatic play?