Question

Pretend you are the coordinator in a brand new daycare center for three to six-year-old children. Each age group will be in its own classroom. How would you set the classrooms up so that the students are getting their physical, cognitive, and psychosocial needs met? What would the structure of the daycare be like? What kinds of activities would you implement? Are there specific tools that you would use (Legos, finger paint, etc.). What kinds of social interactions would you promote? What would you want to make sure to emphasize? What might some of your concerns be?

Answer 1

1. The interwoven nature of classroom instruction is especially easy to see from a student perspective.students have at least two cognitive demands on them at all times: academic tasks demands ( understanding and working with content) AMD social task demands ( interacting with others concerning that content) .this means that students must stimulatanously work at understanding the content and finding appropriate and effective ways to participate in order to demonstrate that understanding.the teacher must facilitate the learning of these academic and social tasks.thus from the perspective of what students need to know in order to be successful management and instruction cannot be separated.

Everything a teachers does has implications for class room management,including creating the setting, decorating the room ,arranging the chairs,speaking to children and handling their responses,putting routines in place (and then executing ,modifying, and reinstituting them), developing rules, and communicating those rules to the students.these all are all aspects of classroom management.

Setting for the class room;

* centers should have multiple uses not just serve one specific center topic

* have as much natural light in the classroom as possible.natural light reduces energy use but most important,enhances task performance and improves the appearance of an area.

* keep noisy and qeit areas separate.noisy areas such as dramatic play and music should be located at one end of the classroom,opposite to the quite areas.this will allow each area to have its activities in a comfortable location.

2. On the surface a day Care operations organizational structure may not be readily visible, but it is there in the scheduling of activities,staffing and careful adherence to child care regulations.organizational structure provides the frame work for performing the work of the day care. Day Care centers adapt the components of organizational structure to meet the specific needs and goals of child centered business.child care laws and regulations provide little room for many differences in the oragainzational structures of for profit and non prifift day Care centers.

3. Materials and equipment for early childhood classrooms play materials in the classroom are extremely important for multiple developmental perspectives such as cognitive,social/ emotional,physical,and language.teachers need to be cognizant of the age appropriate play material / equipment and furniture for the classroom.eg,dramatic play ,blocks,art,library/listening/writing.

4. * focus on teaching and modeling social and emotional learning strategies that encourage reflection and self awareness.

* teach problem solving and conflict resolution skills.

* create opportunities to practice effective social skills both individually and in groups.

5.Emphasize is to make something important or stress it, like when you were little and your parents would always emphasize the importance of looking both ways before crossing the street.they told you again and again again.

6. * Maintaining a work life balance

* dealing with inevitable emergencies

* lack of time for planning

* lot of paper work

* perfo pressures from school administrators.