ECH4000 — EC Learning Environments
Promoting the learning environment as the third teacher, this course will focus on developing positive and safe learning environments by making explicit connections between responsive relationships, developmentally appropriate and culturally responsive practices and learning standards to ensure that young children are provided with engaging high quality learning experiences. This course will also focus on how the learning environment can facilitate or hinder developmentally appropriate and culturally responsive pedagogical and assessment practices, as well as guidance and social emotional teaching practices. Students in this course will also evaluate and plan provocation learning spaces which consider beauty and aesthetics. This course has a field experience.