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Creating Environment
Chapter Nine Intro to Childhood
Defintion | Term |
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All those conditions that affect children's surroundings and the people in them; the physical, interpersonal, and temporal aspects of an early childhood setting | Environment |
Having to do with time and time sequence; in the early childhood setting, refers to scheduling and how time is sequenced and spent, both at home and in school | Temporal |
A numerical description of the number of staff to children, which will vary depending on the age of the children and the type of program activity and is established to provide for adult supervision of children at all times. | Staff-To-Child Ratio |
Curriculum that emphasizes an inclusive look at people and problems, extending the tenets of multicultural education and pluralism | Anti-Bias |
The act of helping or providing for oneself without dependence on others; in early childhood terms, activities, that a child can do alone, without adult assistance | Self-Help |
The state of being able to exist and operate independently, of being self-sufficient rather than dependent on others | Autonomy |
Providing the "least restrictive environment" for children with psychical limitations | Full Inclusion |
The least restrictive environment is a special education term meaning that the child should be educated in the environment that is the least different from the regular classroom as long as the child can learn in that environment | Least Restrictive Environment |
Alterations in the way tasks are presented or activities experienced that allow children with learning disabilities to compete the same as other children | Accommodations |
Centers in a classroom or yard that are organized for learning or experiences that will interest children | Interest Areas |
Areas of a classroom or yard that are organized to draw attention to specific objects for an activity | Learning Centers |
Regular procedures; habitual, repeated or regular parts of the school day; in early childhood programs, routines are those parts of the program schedule that remain constant | Routines |
A change from one state or activity to another; in early childhood terms, transitions are those times of change in the daily schedule | Transition |
Relating to, or involving relationships with other people; those parts of the environment that have to do with the people in a school setting | Interpersonal |