Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community:
Individualizing: A Plan for Success
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Individualizing Every Day--An Ongoing Dynamic Process
Handout 23: Making the Environment Fit
Part I: Describe the Environment
Instructions: Select one area of the indoor or outdoor environment at the center or group socialization site. On a separate piece of paper, draw a sketch of this area that shows key features (for example, doors, windows, interest areas, trees, sandbox) and the arrangement of equipment and/or furniture. When finished, answer the questions that follow. You will have 30 minutes to complete this assignment.
Area of the Environment:
Example: the outdoor sandbox
What materials are available for children's use?
Example: trucks; assorted props for digging, moving, and molding sand; natural materials such as pine cones and twigs
What do children usually do in this area?
Example: make roads for the trucks, make cakes and decorate them with twigs
What problems typically arise in this area?
Example: throwing sand, fighting over toys and props
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