PPT Homework: Effective Practices
In order to be an effective early childhood professional, it is vital to pay close attention to the strengths and needs of every child. Children respond to teaching strategies and learning experiences in many different ways, so it is essential to have an arsenal of strategies and effective practices that can be used when the time is right. However, classroom meetings and democratic classrooms are great ways to support positive learning environments, positive classroom cultures, and create caring classroom communities where every child can thrive. The dynamics of each classroom group will vary, so you will need to research several approaches and effective practices for creating a strong classroom community for the children and families with whom you work.
For this Homework, you will consider the role of strategies such as classroom meetings in supporting positive learning environments.
To Prepare:
After watching the media segments on classroom meetings in this module's Learning Resources, consider how strategies such as classroom meetings can support positive learning environments, positive classroom cultures, and caring classroom communities using the following scenario.
Task
Imagine you are the director of an early childhood care and education setting. You want to create a presentation to provide professional development for your teachers and staff on how to develop supportive learning environments with positive classroom cultures and caring classroom communities for everyone in the setting. Research effective practice based on scholarly resources from the last 5 years that you can use to ground your presentation in the professional knowledge base.
Develop a narrated PowerPoint presentation (13 slides=12 slides of information and 1 slide references) that provides evidence-based information addressing the questions that follow:
How can early childhood professionals: (2 slides per question)
• Help all children feel valued and respected as members of the classroom community?
• Build on the strengths and meet the individual needs of all the children through the building of a classroom community?
• Create an environment that is culturally responsive?
• Promote a strong academic environment through a sense of community?
• Strengthen partnerships with children and families through a community environment?
• Positively affect all children's social-emotional growth?
• Note section Explanation/ References slide
In the Notes Section of slides summarize each slide of question in 8 -10 sentences.(information should not be directly same and displayed as in slides)
• Remember the notes sections explanations are your narrative responses to the 6 questions above)
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the homework, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.