Triangular Efforts Activity

1. Creating A Child Centered Environment
Carissa Farrell
EEC 3009
St. Petersburg College
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2. A Developmentally Appropriate Physical Environment
Teacher- Student and Student- Student Interactions
Structured Learning Environment
Student Behavior Expectations
Social Development and Group Responsibility
A Child Centered Environment Consists of:

3. The Physical Environment of the Classroom Should:
• Support and engage student
learning
• Facilitate physical movement in
daily activities
• Minimize or avoid safety
hazards
• Display student work
• Include materials that support
learning and are accessible for
teachers and all students
• Contain furniture that is child
size and appropriate for the
students

4. The Classroom Setting Should Promote Fair and
Respectful Teacher-Student and Student-Student
Interactions:
• Teachers should be sensitive to students
cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds
when planning the curriculum.
• Teachers should provide opportunities for
each student to actively participate in
activities and discussions.
• Students should have many opportunities
to interact with their peers and learn to
respect them.

5. A Structured Environment that Implements Procedures
and Routines:
• Helps classroom activities to run smoothly
• Use transitions to move from one activity to another
• Provide specific directions for routines and transitions until the
student internalizes them
• Make teachers focus on structuring routines and transitions to
minimize non-instructional time and to focus student attention on
learning

6. A Child Learning Environment Establishes and Maintains
Student Behavior:
• When teachers model positive behavior to
help students learn and accept the
standards of behavior expected of them.
• When teachers make sure students
understand the consequences for failing to
maintain appropriate student behavior.
• When the teacher responds to the student
who fails to behave inappropriately, in a
constructive manner that avoids disruption
of the classroom activity as little as
possible.

7. To Implement Social Development and Group
Responsibility in a Child Centered Environment,
Teachers Should:
• Foster students’ self esteem
• Teach students how to work with and learn
from each other;
• Provide opportunities for each student to
exercise leadership
• Help students learn to take responsibility
for contributing to a group
• Model constructive ways of agreeing and
disagreeing with others, making mistakes
and correcting them, listening to other
points of views, ideas, experiences, and
feelings
• Encourage students to look at situations
from multiple perspectives

8. Student
ParentTeacher
Building
Academic
Success
Achieve
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Learns
Encourages
Collaborate
Assesses
Supports
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