566/FinalGuide.rtf So, what do you know about designing Developmentally Appropriate Learning Environments? How do you know what you know?
Wed, April 5 - work on projects in groups
April 12 - 5:00 pm - Lakeland Prep Academy 4269 County Road 2546 Quinlan, TX 75474 (972) 635-9393 http://lakelandacademy.org/maps.htm
April 19 - 5:00 pm - Commerce Elementary School
April 26 - Gallery Walk of Group Projects
Wed, Mar 8 - Whole Class - Read about Domains of Development, Kostelnik, et al chapters 9-14.
For Wed, Mar 22 - Prepare for Field Trips - Let's Explore (Read Kostelnik, pp 110 - 118 & Thompson Hundred Language Zoo.doc) Hundred Language Zoo Webs .ppt
Our list of possible Field Trips during Class time, or not :
 | Wetlands along the Sulphur River |
| Pecan Gap - toward Ladonia, on the South Sulphur River |
| Barn & Tank |
| Children's Museum |
| Commerce Elem School |
| Montessori Class |
| Children's Learning Center |
| Dairy Museum in Sulphur Springs |
| Greenville Depot |
| Planetarium |
For Wed, Mar 29 - Room Arrangement - Read Kostelnik, chapter 5, and Robertson (2005) Using Environment Rating Scales
Feb 22 - Supt. DISD Hinojosa will speak at the TAMU-C Metroplex Center in Mesquite, 6.30 pm - 7.15 pm
Wed, Mar 1 - Meet as TEAMS
Six Types of Parent Engagement http://www.tcet.unt.edu/fipse/
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TEAM COMMUNITY!! Candy, Jennifer, Sara, Ashleigh, Cassie Team COMMUNITY is going to work as a group to fulfill the course objectives on the projects listed in the syllabus. We have started throwing out ideas for things we might want to do, such as a DAP book dealing with the ABC's (with maybe candy as our theme), a game of opposites, a parent pack with book and activity, and a classroom plan with Cassie and Jennifer using their classrooms as examples. Also, we have discussed several ideas for a bulletin board and we are thinking about an interactive board dealing with classroom jobs/responsibilities. |
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Museum – Connie, Trina, Jeltje, Jill, Our Children Museum Literacy Program decided to start off by meeting with marypaz. Connie & Jill will meet with her and discuss when it would be a good time to rummage through her backroom and see what she may or may not have for the reading center. Trina and Jeltje will meet with them and share what we have found out and go from there. They have ideas on how to acquire books for the reading center and also maybe make some backpacks to start out with. The backpack would consist of a book with materials / activities to play along with the book. Making use of Jose Aruego would be a great way to have an Open house to inform the community about the Literacy Center. Not definite, but an idea that was thrown out. |
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Team Combo – Catherine, Kim, Stephanie, Jamey, Jeltje
We are going to follow the guidelines given on the course
requirements sheet, but apply them to the children's museum. We are
going to focus on creating a proposal for possibly having a section
of the museum dedicated to physical education and nutrition. First,
we will make a Parent Pack explaining what this part of the museum
would include and the benefits of having the child be a part of it.
Second, we would design a bulletin board for that area of the
museum. Then we will devise a game for this area, possibly not a
board game though (not sure). Fourth, we will write a DAP Book for
teaching children physical education and nutrition. Lastly, we will
put together an idea of what type of environment would would like
this area to have (everything from design to materials needed).
These are our general ideas of how we would approach this project. |
We went to the Museum today and here are some of our brainstorm ideas:
| Books |
| Scholastic book fair |
| donate a book for entrance |
| donation book plate |
| create a reading center out of |
| make your own book about a part of the museum or about the museum as a whole |
| Entrance |
| Layout and design - environment |
| Survey prior users - teachers, children, |
| Seasonal |
| Long-term planning |
| Volunteer coordination |
| Interns from the different disciplines in the University |
| Art |
| Music |
| Educational materials, labels, multilingual |
| Expand - |
| Fundraiser |
Wed, 1/25 - meet at our normal classroom - EDSouth 131
Next week: Northeast Texas Children's Museum
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