This is for all the teachers who are supporting early years education and wishing to build their classroom more energized for their students.

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Classrooms Set up in
Early years
Enabling Environments

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Learning Outcomes
Today we are looking at-
■ What is the importance of classroom set up in early years.
■ Why is it important?
■ How it should be done?

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Enabling Environment
■ In which early years classroom, children are likely to learn and
develop more and why?
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Enabling Environment
■ In professional terms, classroom setup is known as physical
environment.
■ Physical environment includes furniture, resources available for
children such as books, toys, paints, clay ,sand ,water and
what has been displayed on the walls.
■ This physical indoor and outdoor environment plays an
important role in children’s learning and development.

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Enabling Environment
■ A classroom which has been set up according to children’s
ages, interests and needs provide children opportunity to play.
■ Play is a very undervalued term specially in very academically
oriented societies.
■ We need to understand that children learn through play.

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Enabling Environment
■ For centuries, lots of research has been done regarding
importance of play. Here are some examples of few famous
child theorists.
■ Piaget has said that children are active learner. They learn by
doing things not by telling. Example can be- If you want to
teach children about sinking and floating, you should provide
water tray with objects that can float and sink in a classroom.

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Enabling Environment
■ Another famous theorist Vygotsky said that children cognitively
develop and learn when they interact with each other. It’s
important for children to be involved in social play where they
learn from each other. According to him play, particularly
imaginative play is important for children’s language
development.
■ Examples of imaginative play can be home corner, pretend
shops, pretend post office and doctor’s surgery.

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Enabling Environment
■ So how you should be set up your classroom in early years?
■ Your classroom and outdoor should provide children lots of
opportunities to explore, talk, make friends and play. This can
only happen when you include different workshops/areas in
your class rooms apart from having only tables and chairs.

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Areas/workshops
A number of workshop areas and regular activities that should be part
of early years classroom:
Construction and block area Graphics area
Sand and water area Small world area
Book area Music and sound-
making area
Home corner and role-play area Creative workshop area
Malleable and tactile area Digging and planting area
Large physical apparatus (climbing frame/ A-frames etc)
Small physical equipment (balls, hoops/ bikes etc.)
Shopping and cooking activities

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Classroom Set-Up
■ Rich environments indoors and Outdoors have an immediate
effect on the quality of children’s learning and development.
■ However, A suitable environment for a young baby will be very
different from a suitable environment for a four year old
although some features will be the same.
■ We can talk about how to set up classrooms fro different age
groups in the next Webinar.

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Classroom Set-Up
■ Any questions?
■ Thanks for attending this webinar