You might want to feel welcomed when you enter a preschool, no matter you are a parent or child. Children spend almost half a day in school, that is why the preschool learning environment plays a major role in helping children develop and learn. Research suggests that a high-quality classroom environment can help close the achievement gap (Mashburn, 2008).
The preschool learning environment is super important to ensure that children can learn effectively and productively. This is to make certain a child receives healthy progress in all four domains; physicality, social-emotional, language and cognitive development (Feldmanand Garrison, 1993; Abas et al., 2012). Besides, a well–designed preschool learning environment can promote healthy development for the children. As suggested by Leinonen and Venninen, (2012), they are four major environmental stimuli that are needed within the kindergarten.
So today, we would like to share the 4 major factors that help you design a better preschool learning environment!
4 Major Environments Optimized For Preschool Learning Environment
1. Movement
A key design requirement in the preschool learning environment is to allow children to move around easily as they are constantly moving and playing around. The design must ensure they can achieve the greatest movement both indoors and outdoor. The entire space should provide the best comfort with safety measures and tolerable limits.
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We should let children create their own boundaries, access diverse territories, and explore their abilities during their school time. The classroom sets interest areas for children to learn and play. Using children’s needs, interests, and abilities to design the learning space.
2. Comfort
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From the Education Week’s research, they have concluded that if a student is in an environment they feel comfortable in, they will do their best work. Comfortable settings in the preschool learning environment can be felt in the variation of architectural elements such as scale, floor height, ceiling height, and lighting, and the presence of furnishings such as tables, chairs, couches and more.
3. Competent
We want to create a positive place where students can come to work toward specific goals. Other than the qualities of the teachers, another thing that needs to focus on is the classroom design. A supportive environment helps children fulfil their own needs, execute tasks easily, capable to handle their tasks.
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Different spaces should satisfy different needs and functions. For example, a library room or study room must be equipped with bright colours, and enough lighting and make sure the acoustic environment is soft enough to produce a quiet place for reading. Having couches and beds in the sleeping room to take a nap on and relax during a whole day of learning and play would be necessary!
4. Control
Some design principles that we talked about in the previous article can help in maintaining a balance between access to the child and the child’s need for privacy. You can design a flexible and adjustable room or area that provide children privacy or a tent would be nice too. It is also important to have spaces designed to support teachers in teaching and handling students in the classroom.
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It is quite crucial that children have the ability to exercise control over their immediate personal environment. What can they do is learn to have some privacy, making predictions, and appropriately orient their bodies in space.
Preschool is known to play an important role in early childhood education and development. Looking for the teaching qualities and the learning environment are both vital in choosing the preschool for your children.
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